I'll start. I'm divorced (which might be partly explained by the following story), but when I was married I bought an old Porsche by "borrowing" some money out of my daughter's college fund.

Wife=not happy. I mean, really really not happy. I recall hearing the word "Idiot" a lot around the house for the next few weeks.

So have any of you ever wanted an MB (diesel hopefully to keep this in the diesel section) enough to risk problems with the Significant Other? How long did it take until you were forgiven?

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'81 300CD - 180K, cannot be killed by any conventional means
'99 Ford Escort - good MPG

eHarmony is beta testing MB Diesels as a new dimension of compatibility

Sixto
87 300D

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be married to a woman who had so much money that she could afford to tell me what to do.

Someday I hope to be able to afford to not listen

Sixto
87 300D

My wife didn't think it was a good idea at first, but it didn't cost that much to buy the MB diesel. It was the next year of parts purchases that was touch and go for me.

After she saw the end result, she ended up wanting one for herself. I love my wife and we both love our diesels.

EDIT: She actually let me sell our 1998 Acura CL, 2003 Acura TLS and a 1999 Chevy Blazer to get our diesels. Oh yeah, I sold my 1998 Suzuki Marauder too.

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Chad
2013 Jeep Unlimited Rubicon
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL

Then after having made all of those payments to get title to the car and once the warranty goes off and those $500.00 and $600.00 oil changes start kicking in; then it is much easier to get a little understanding from her if you spill over your budget a little in terms of a few extra thousands and a lot of extra time spent wrenching on the diesel. Four oil changes and your windshield washer fluid topped off is over $2,000.00 for the privilege of driving 30,000 miles and that doesn't include any real work that might become necessary like a tune up or fuel pump replacement or fixing a check engine light problem and etc.; so you should be able to sell it from there by showing how the cost to benefit analysis favor you in the long run; unless you are just as vunerable as she is at the Mercedes dealership, which if you are; then I wouldn't risk it and would take her lead.

BenzDiesel

You simply can't imagine the unpleasantness I go through on a daily basis over these cars!!! Every time a shot is fired over my bow it comes in the form of a remark about "the fleet". It is unpleasant and incessant and now predictable.
That is also lumped in to my time on the forum, and Craigslist, and just researching or reading about others folks and their MB's.
It was just used against me to remodel the kitchen. She is determined to outspend my MB spending.
We were driving to my sainted mother's house yesterday, and she saw an early/mid 2000's C230 sitting in a car lot. She said "now that's a Mercedes!", and I said yes honey, about $16,000.00 worth! "Well you could sell what you have now and be able to buy that one" was heard from the seat next to me.
The explanation of why I must have diesels would have just been lost on her.
So I just handed over the mahogany box where my nuts are stored, and she put them back in her purse..........
I'm hoping a decent W124 will help with the situation. Then we can actually take my car when we go places. The W123's are NOT an option!!
My 11 year old daughter is her clone too......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Mine just tries to give them away to anyone who knocks on the door.

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99 ML320
94 SL600
92 SL500
95 E320 Cabriolet
87 560SEC
86 300SDL Grease Car
80 380SLC Euro

13 Fiat Abarth
02 Maserati Spyder Cambiocorsa
00 BMW Z3
90 Rolls Royce Silver Spur
80 Ferrari 308 GTSI
88 Jaguar XJS12 H&E Edition
99 Land Rover Discovery

Three years ago I (we) bought my first mercedes.
We went to Christmas at the husbands family and I told everyone my husband bought me a Mercedes for christmas. I am sure they were thinking new $$$. It was fun to lead them out to my "new" 1982 300tdt running on veg oil and start it up so they could take a look under the hood and smell the exaust.
Now we have 3 and he still loves me.

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1982 300TD
1973 220D ambulance
1974 240D pick-up

He will love you more if you drop that rogue "T" at the end.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

No wonder she has your balls in a box

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1982 300TD
1973 220D ambulance
1974 240D pick-up

All of my purchases get run through the wife first, but it's always a formality. She doesn't care what I buy.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

It could be much worse. Sometimes I get yelled at about time under the hood, but it's a cheaper ride than the volvo 240 in the driveway. If the electrics weren't all farmered up on a, 83 300 turbo, she woulda bit.

I only get grief when it's a gasser. So I vow to ...



okay-

I vow to love my wife and if I buy a gasser I vow to buy a doghouse to sleep in.


right now I'm badly bent- so even a 124 TD is off limits. There was one here for less than 4K and I did not even go look at it.

Well, my wife has known for a long time, before we were even dating, that we were going to own many cars in our lifetime. I would often almost drive off the road while wrenching my head to spot an old SL or M roadster. Our first dates consisted of us going to car dealers and "considering" buying a car that was so obvious that we couldn't afford. When I look now at Craigslist or Ebay, and show her a car, she responds, "Why do you torture yourself by looking at cars you'll never be able to afford?" I say someday I will. She says, "In your dreams sucker."

Although my brother did buy a car without any consultation. Let me say first, that I come from a family with a long line of very strong, opinionated women. I fully understand that my wife can and will kick my a$$ if I step out of line. So will my mother and grandmother. And for some reason, all the men in my family are attracted to women of that same cloth. Must be Freudian. Anyway. My brother and sister in law were deciding whether or not to buy a car. Two days later my brother came home with a new Infiniti QX4. It wasn't really on the list of cars, nor anywhere close. They weren't even looking at new cars.

Needless to say, my sister in law was pissed. My mother was livid. My wife laughed at his stupidity. My mother was so pissed, that she was angry at me. When I explained to her (my first mistake, I was young...) that I was not my brother and this just goes to proving that I am the smarter and better child out of the two. She turned to me, with fire in her eyes and responded that I was just like him and the same dumbass blood that runs through his veins, coarses through mine.

So, I have never, nor will I ever buy a car without written permission from my wife, but I have gotten in trouble for it.

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MKIII88Turbo

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
--Aristotle--

1986 Mercedes 190D
2004 VW Golf TDI