Benz fanz,

I'm looking for another diesel merc and have several questions:

1. Is there a best year for 300D turbo? decent years?
2. Is there a worst year - stay away from?
3. easiest to work on?
4. hardest to work on?

Thanks

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84 300 D Turbo, 222,000 and rolling, veggie most of the time.
91 350 SDL veggie wannabe

85 is the best year.


Best rear diff, added vacuum technology made the transmission work PERFECT. Make sure you get a federal version and not a california. But realy any year is good. Btw the 300d didnt get the turbo till 1982 I think, maybe 1981. The earlier s klasses did though

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1981 300SD 512k OM603

The very best turbo 123 is the one with the best care and records to prove it over the last 25 years.
With that said, probably the best year is the '84 Federal - by '84 MB had put all the engineering and improvements into the car that they were going to. The '85 is essentially the same as the California cars - it has all the polution crap that the earlier Federal cars don't have.
All the 123's are fairly easy to work on.

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Houston, Texas
1984 300CD 235K miles, Elvira, one owner
1987 300TD 180K miles
1974 TR6 78K miles Sarah Jane, one owner
OBK #27