there is a Benz shop here in Atlanta that allows me to buy parts and they'll install if they can't find certain parts.

recently i paid
$500 used transmission
$500 to install

last year
$400 starter and installed
$140 ignition switch

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ez rider

14 cents for those damn little washers on the oil filter cover.

you think thats bad.
i paid $1.80 for those damn little o-rings at the base of the oil filter rod.
at the local MB Stealership.

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sold
1987 300 SDL 318K
126.125 (OM603.961) (722.321 trans) (head#14)
Born on date 11/07/1986
2.5" Flowmaster Exhaust
flex-a-lite dual electric cooling fan conversion

now have a 1985 toyota diesel pickup

24K plus tax and licencing on my C280 when I totaled it. That is what the E300 TD cost so I figure that is what it cost me to repair the C280.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

300DT-

$2300-Full suspension rebuild.

Next to that, probabaly the climate control & AC system-
New climate control push button unit, compressor, radiator expansion tank, A/C conversion to R134A, thermostat, new many new hoses etc. -$1300

C280-

$3200

New Transmission

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Nate

1995 E420
1992 BMW 525i
1984 300D Turbo sold
1993 Volvo 244 sold
1995 Volvo 944T R.I.P!


"The details are not details. They make the product."
-Charles Eames

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Roughly 600 bucks (canadian) for parts + labourf for full 168 km maintenance. I bought all the parts and my indy mechanic did the job. So far not a single problem. (knock on wood)


PS: when I went over our 95 E300D records from new, total the PO spent $5500 on maintenance and small repairs over the 9 years that he had the car from new.

$3800 for new top half of engine, plus new vacuum pump.

300sdl 171500
190D 300500