Do you drive your 300SD every day?

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1985 300SD
1983 300D
1984 190D
2003 Volvo V70
2002 Honda Civic

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I'll let you know in a couple of days when I get mine...

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Michael LaFleur

'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)

Since I don't have a commute every day, the 300SD goes out once per week to Connecticut and back. About 250 miles round trip.

As one of the few professionals in this group, can I ask your opinion of driving the SD with a bad head gasket? The symptoms are pressurized cooling system several days after shutdown, loss of one quart of coolant per 750 miles, and both sodium and glycol in an oil analysis.

Does this issue get progressively worse to the point of catastrophic damage? Or, will discoloration appear in the oil prior to that time?

HELL YEA it usually sees 300 or more miles a week depending on how busy i am. i drive it to school everyday.

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I drive it about 3-4 days a week. In some cases, I may drive it 5 or 6 days a week. It runs great. I don't drive it far though, mostly city driving. The furthest I've ever driven it is Galveston to get some highway driving in (100 mile round trip) although I'd like to drive it to San Antonio (394 mile round trip) or Austin (328 mile round trip). The cruise control is broken, but I drove to Austin in another car with cruise control off, so I figure I can do it again. And plus, it needs some new belts and hoses, so no long drives until that is serviced.
-Joe

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

I drive mine everyday. The furthest I've ever driven it was to Charlotte, NC. Of course I didn't have any problems and got 24mpg to boot. Oh well, I'm going to adjust the timing when school let's out since I've adjusted the vlaves and only 1 was a tad bit high after 18,000 miles. After that comes the purge, filters, etc. Then I'm up a creek.
Thanks
David

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2000 Honda Accord V6 137k miles

1972 300SEL 4.5 98k miles

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My 300 SD is my daily driver. Since I bought it I've been puting the miles on it pretty quickly.

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I have choice of 3 cars as my daily driver and the SD is the one. I like it better than 2001 Acura 3.2TL, 1991 BMW 735i. All cars are in excellent running condition.

My SD has 190K miles, with working AC, cruise etc. I've fixed many prior "botched fixes" by the previous owner's monkey wrench. I still need to find a gray leather door panel for the left rear door. It squeakes due to many broken plastic hooks.

"Flame suites on". I'm running the SD with full boost (took out the waste gate). The only protection is the overboost bypass. This is a "beast" on demand.

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Shane83SD

I haven't driven the minivan since I got it, so I guess you could say, if I drive, which is at least 6 of 7 days per week, I drive the SD.

And thanks to Speedy300D, I can do it with my locks locked !!

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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Absolutely my car is a daily driver at 321k miles...I have a 110 mile round trip daily commute for which my SD is perfect. It is safe, safe, safe and typically gets mid- to high-20 mpg fuel economy. A once a month oil/filter and fuel filter change and I'm down the road...

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Richard Detoy
'84 300SD
'76 Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans

My S and D alternate daily driving duties. Does this equal an SD?:p

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'90 300SE 298k
-300K and it gets put into retirement.
'80 300D 255k Purchased new by family in 1980.

Had a:
1973 220 (gas)
1980 300SD
1992 400E

Well, from this day forward, I've been driving the '83 300SD with 139,000 miles on it because my dead-beat '94 BMW 540i decided to take an extended holiday ("trans program"). Otherwise, I drive the Benz-o 3 to 5 times a week.

Since I got my car 15 months ago I've piled on 30,700+ miles. No signs of weakness at all (well, the compressor just sprung a leak, but I knew that was coming, PO used a Four Seasons rebuild). I've had absolutely no qualms about grabbing the wife and kid and pointing it 600 miles away. Would take it anywhere right now.

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Tjohn

82 300 SD
77 450 SL (gone)

My SD is my daily driver to work 400 miles a week with 310k it still runs great. The SDL is for taking the family out.
Tom
'82 SD
'86 SDL

Yes, I dive it as my main car at leasst three times per week, and usually more. It is a good car and at 185,000 miles it is my main one. Boyd