https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89Q1pJHI8Y&feature=youtu.be

wow what a smooth throttle assembly/Valve cover.

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Tulare County, CA

WTB list: (1983 300d)
-Exterior rocker panels below doors
-Gauge Custer plastic window/indicator icons

(1983 300D Turbo)

Euro headlights and bumpers make the car look so much more timeless and sleek, amazing vehicle.

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1998 Ford Escort ZX2 5 speed - 279,000 miles My Daily

1992 Mercedes 300D 2.5 202,000 - Pure junk
2000 Mercedes E320 Black - 136,000 miles - Needs repair

Don't forget to grease the screw and threads on the spring compressor.

CA certainly helped that car.

My New York euro... not quite that purdy...

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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!

Is this the same one in the big thread on this forum?

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Yes it is. What impressed me about that car initially. Is how well the cloth seats stood up over the years. Mercedes vinyl material would not have surprised me. As I have seen almost pristine examples of it up to 275K miles on a few examples. The paint color I have always considered is European in taste. Some other European brands used a very similar color. Color vision varies but I have always thought of that color as an orangish red. Or a reddish orange.

I had been wondering about the presence of some European features on my current 2006 volkswagon tdi beater. I was thinking it may have been manufactured in Germany. As they did not appear on Mexican built cars I suspect. I had a quick look for country of manufacture. No country of manufacture is on the label on the doorpost where it usually is. Yet the information shows it was sold in my region new. Sales may have been weak for them that year as well. Sold new in late 2007. A little strange for a 2006. Although the 2007s were never sold in north America. The diesel tdi came back in 2008 with a common rail injection system. Plus a cheating emission control system. If it was built in Germany could make sense. They are built better there and this on this one everything is still working well. I also have enough service records to indicate the car had very few issues before I acquired it.

One can only surmise they thought they could get away with the cheating emission system. Actually they did for some time until it was detected. It is my personal belief that they took the chance as the odds of it being detected where in reality quite long. The massive penalty they experienced financially is representative of the odds of it being detected. Or as in any gambling the odds where very long. Just not quite long enough it turned out.

Lovely car, as I just commented on Youtube. One of my co-workers bought a brand new Nissan Rogue in nearly the same color about two months ago. I'd maybe call it burnt orange. Nissan's version is called Monarch Orange Metallic.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.