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Originally Posted by iuecon99
Main expenses were the brakes, emissions snafu, and just miscellaneous stuff here and there. A little "deferred maintenance" from previous owner when I got it with about 140K miles, then did OK for about 30000 miles before this disastrous run.
Picked it up today, good news was it started, bad news is I rolled the window down and the motor is broken and it won't go back up. I'm sure that's many hundreds of dollars, but I am thinking about pushing the car off a cliff in the middle of nowhere to put it out of its misery.
Anyway, it's only money. It's a big setback, and I resent Mercedes for not making a quality product, but at least I know never to touch them again.
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I may have bought my last new, or used MB, the 2006 E320 CDI that I bought used 3.5 years ago, now with 69K miles on it.
I was raised in a family where my parents bought and drove new MB diesel cars starting in 1969. That's what got me started on buying and driving a used, 8 year old 1983 MB diesel with 93K on it in 1991.
My next MB diesel car was a new 1999 E300TD sedan. Spent $42,500 plus sales tax on that car. Never again. Too much money for too little return. Drove it 100K in it's 1st 4-years of ownership. Nothing but a problem basically for years - one thing or another. Gifted it to a Brother 3.5 years ago. It had 132K on it. I repeatedly warned my Brother that it would cost $1K to $3K a year to keep it on-the-road, if he was going to drive it a lot. He keeps it as his garage queen. Seems to have ongoing issues, even when not driving it but a thousand miles a year.
12-29-2016, 08:45 PM
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