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slowmoe · #5 08-16-2005, 03:21 PM

I owned a 92 300D for about 100K. I sold it at 205K, if my memory serves me correctly.

Over that time I needed to:

1) Replace front left and right ball joints
2) Replace front left and right tie rods
3) Replace front and rear sway bushings
4) Replace all four brakes and rotors
5) Replace the radiator, hoses and t-stat
6) Replace the vaccum pump for the door locks and the lock actuator for the driver side door
7) Replace one front electric fan

The only work I was not able to do myself was the ball joints - and I am very much a novice home mechanic.

A good friend of mine still owns the car. It now has 235K on it. So far, he has needed to do the brakes again, replace a sending unit for the electric fans, rebuild the odometer ($250 from the dealer), and replace the rear links. He is 66 years old, another amateur, and has done all the work himself - except the odometer.

Every now and then I get the chance to drive her again. The car looks and runs better then it did when I bough it over 135K ago!!

Just make sure you buy a good one.