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Originally Posted by Shorebilly
Sounds like it's time for a good parts car........and if you only have 155K miles on it.....it's just getting broken in......if your body is as solid as you think it is....you should get an easy 100K miles......if you address the needed repairs....
If you aren't a great mechanic, and car person......see if you can meet someone from here who is knowledgeable in the rust issues of these cars.....the rest can be fixed relatively easily......
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Reply: The car really isn't terrible, but I'm wary of spending the $1-$1.5k needed on a car that won't be worth much more after that money is spent. An early 240D automatic with a cracked blue dash and thin original classic white paint isn't worth much! The car is what would be called in the VW world a 'survivor' it had absolutely no parts replaced before my tenure as owner-- that is what drew me to the car! The brake pads were original MB-- the prefilter even had a star on it!!! It never occured to me that the wear parts would all go at once, and that is what has happened.
Q: How do you know that you have a break booster issue??
A: Nothing is hooked up but the brakes and fuel shut-off.
It may be possible that the brake booster and transmission issues are both vacuum related.....
Reply: To my knowledge, there is no vacuum applied to early 240D Automatic transmissions.
As far as the car wandering....and the 2" of play in the steering wheel....could be a number of things.....
Reply: It's the shocks, steering damper and other multitude of parts that have been sitting under a cast iron engine for 30 years. Everyone says these cars need front-end work right around 150k, mine ought not be too different, eh?
Q: Why do you think the rear springs are shot??
A: Because I replaced the shocks with new Bilsteins 9 months/5,000 miles ago.
Q: Why do you think that the alternator is on it's way out??
A: The alternator case has an ovular lower bolt hole because I used too small a replacement when my Father forgot to tighten the factory bolt whenever the battery was on it's way out and we removed the alternator to have it tested. It needs to be replaced.
I've been meaning to make this post, but I just didn't know how well a "I thought you guys said these are good cars, but mine seems to be falling apart" thread would go over!
Thank you all very much!
