I did not realize MB offered these in 95. Has anyone ever heard of one?

ebay item=150956632104

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Jim

The link is not working. Found it by the listing number.

A bit pricey but, I want one.

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer

"One of a kind"?

That is a really odd intake vent in the fender as well. Never seen one line that before.

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer

I can't say I know of the factory offering the diesel in the 95 E class.

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Jim

Perhaps in Europe? I would agree, never heard of such an animal either.

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer

the diesel was offered in all years of 124 production... outside the US.
I've seen Japan 95 TD's for sale.
this one says it's from CA ... likely, it means canada.

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"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Mercedes-Benz : E-Class E300D in Mercedes-Benz | eBay Motors

Everything shown in the photos indicates it is an original USA car.

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1982 240D auto 152k
1984 380SL 113k
2015 Ram 2500 6.7 Cummins
Previous:
1985 300DT
1984 190D 5sp Euro

the washer bottle heater is disconnected... it's the only thing I can find to indicate a possible repower.
also odd is the placement of the diesel insignia... and the owners manual that says diesel is for a sedan

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Wish i had money to buy this one of a kind

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1999 W210 E300 Turbodiesel

Totally a repower.

This is originally a E320 wagon - a diesel VIN of a W124 model should have WDBEB, a WDBEA = W124 with a gas engine.

the second giveaway is the speedo, any W124 with OM606.910 engine does not have a 160 mph speedo. Of course you all know that MB never would use a fender vent like that.

to further confirm you can use the russian decoder if you wish but the 4th placement of the VIN is pretty obvious

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

If the dude won't be honest about a repower, who knows what else he's hiding. I would be hesitant even if the price was right.

Well, ok... if the price was right...

Every time I see a nice W124 RWD wagon, I think how awesome it'd be to throw a 603 or 606 in it. The problem isn't finding a good chassis. Very nice '93-'95 W124 wagons are cheap (a few are offered in the area for ~ $3k). The problem is sourcing a good 603 or 606.

How about mating that to a 5-speed? NOW we're talking

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-1985 300TD - 324k mi on chassis. MB "Tauschaggregat" 617 motor + 4-speed conversion
Alaska Roadtrip 2009
-2002 E320 Wagon - 197k mi
-1998 E320 Wagon - 310k mi - retired

The fender vent was standard on the 201 and the 124 for all diesel models from about 1992 or 1993 through 1995. My '95 E300 diesel sedan has that vent, it's the intake for engine air. The last diesel station wagon imported into the USA was the 1987 300D Turbo. The subject car could be a non-US model privately imported or a re-engined E320.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

your car has that plastic vent? pic?
MB louvered the fender, and the louvered fender is a rare piece of metal...
I've got one, but what don't I have... this guy likely got a wrecked 95D and stuffed all that diesel goodness in there.
I hope they swapped the diff, as the E320 had a 2.65 rear, and it'll be a bit slow on takeoff without the shorter diff the NA Diesel came with...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Poop, I shooda looked at the pictures first! My '95 has a vent in the right front fender but it isn't painted black, it's the same color as the rest of the fender (white in my case). Do we know that the thing in the pictures of the subject car is actually black plastic? or is it just black-painted metal?

The fender air intake first shows up (in my manual collection, anyway) in the W201.128 model with the OM602 5-cylinder turbodiesel engine as of (probably) 1990 (Service Manual, Diesel Engines 602, 603 [published 1991] section 09-400 Removal and installation of air cleaner, turbodiesel). Model 124.128 with OM602.962 engine may not have gotten the fender slots until the next year. AFAIK no gasoline-engined models had air intake slots in the fender.

Jeremy

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970