Wow Thats a rare car. The S600's became lower and lower production from 96 on. Do you think it was a early or late production car?

Letting the core dry off would make sense...

I bet the reason they fail is from corrosion because of a badly designed condensate drain...

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Current cars:
2000 ML55 AMG, 174k miles
2003 C240 T-Modell, 202k miles
1995 S320, 207k Miles

Likely. Hopefully they improved this design on the replacements.

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2004 Toyota Sequoia Limited 4wd
1991 Lincoln Town Car Executive
1991 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1988 Mercedes 300SEL
1972 Chevrolet Caprice Kingswood Estate 9-passenger wagon
1973 Pontiac Grand Ville
(Prior MB's: 1974 240D, 1985 380SE, 1984 190D, 1993 400SEL)

Anyone seen a W140 with over 100,000 miles and a fully functional A/C system that hasn't had the evaporator core replaced in it?

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1999 Mercedes-Benz S600, 103K miles - garage queen
1988 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL, 89K miles - daily driver
2007 Hyundai Sonata Limited, 31K - daily driver

Jupp, my 1998 C140 with 165000km on the counter has the original evaporator.

br,
syljua

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1998 CL500 W140
1984 230E W123

My 99 has 140K on it. Original Evaporator core. Car still drives like its brand new and Im sure Ill get at least another 20 years of service out of it.

Hi,The W140 S600 would be an interesting car if it had a 6 speed Getrag gear box behind the V12,i have been thinking of doing this and was wondering if anybody had done this.I have fitted getrag gearboxs to different mercedes in the past,not for speed but for more "driveability".I can see nothing hard in doing this conversion but would take a bit of time.The W140 S600's here in Australia are not cheap,a 1997 retailes for about $40,000.But then they did cost $385,000. here new.you can pick up a 1993 for about $30,000.A 6 speed secondhand Getrag box costs $2500.You guys in the States are so lucky with the prices you can buy you cars for.

Does this still hold true today?

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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.

Also depends on how much of the work you do yourself and how thrifty you can be with sourcing parts. If it has not been kept up and a lot of non-critical items have been left undone, you could end up spending a few thousand bucks on new MB parts, or maybe $1700 in OEM parts ordered online, or maybe $300 on junkyard parts for non critical parts. Have that work done at a shop and you can triple those prices.

If the engineand/or transmission has been neglected, it could get insanely expensive. Service records are king, unless it has crazy low mileage.

Depends on how it was taken care of They re pretty reliable cars.

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Only diesels in this driveway.
2005 E320 CDI 243k Black/Black
2008 Chevy 3500HD Duramax 340k
2004 Chevy 2500HD Duramax 220k

not the 6 cylinder model,after 96.Easy to work on yourself.had mine since 2009

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

Holly crap I started this thread 14 years ago.

I have no idea I'd just buy one new enough to have an excellent bumper to bumper warranty!

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

On 09/21/2008, in post# 96, I wrote . . .
"I also think they get a bad rap. My '94 has been the 'best' MB and cheapest to maintain of all MBs I've owned."

Today, 6/6/2018 . . . it's still true! Wonderful car . . . runs like new.
The only thing that needs 'fixing' is the lumbar 'balloon' in the drivers seat. Not bad for 10 years later, wouldn't you agree??

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Regards . . . . JimF
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'94 S500 Cpe

Visit my Mercedes Web Page

I have a 1995 S320 with 200k on it. Runs great, still does daily driver duty like it was nothing.

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Current cars:
2000 ML55 AMG, 174k miles
2003 C240 T-Modell, 202k miles
1995 S320, 207k Miles

best cars I ever bought were w126 diesel,and 99 s320