240diowa,

You are dealing with anecdotal data, not statistical data. I would point you toward an issue of the Star magazine that was issued in early '96. In that issue was much data about high mileage MB's of all types including a feature story on a 240D that went over 1 million miles with only one engine rebuild.

If you are using ebay as your source of data, please keep in mind that the cars there run the gamut. Although a few nice cars are sold there, most of them are the junk that people are trying to get rid of. Nice, well cared for cars have buyers before they are ever put up for sale. Their friends and acquaintances call "dubs" on them before they go up for sale. That leaves, for the most part, only the rags being sold on ebay.

Are you having fun coming in here and making all these allegations just for the purpose of stirring things up?

Enjoy,