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'84 500SEL should I buy it?
200k+ miles. Some rips on seats. Clear coat peeled. Some rust around rear passenger wheel well. Apparently all electronics work. No valve rapping. New tires. New exhaust. How much should I spend? It's road ready to drive. $750.
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1980 300d Last edited by 300; 04-08-2012 at 02:01 PM. |
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I'm not sure what you'd use it for. Terrible gas mileage, so its not really worth driving until something expensive breaks and dumping.
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Post some pictures
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![]() 85,000 miles Meet on the level, leave on the square. Great words to live by Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
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my 84 got about 15, city/highway. but it was sure fun to drive. however, 200K suggests imminent engine collapse, i.e. $5K.
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My 84 500 sec got 12 to 13 around town and up to 19 highway if driven easily. It was about bulletproof though and equal or less maintenance than a 617. It always had a hot start problem that you had to work around with your driving habits though. There may have been a simple fix of it but we never found it.
And it was a sweet driving machine with good handling.
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Fuel accumulator
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With best regards Al |
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