I noticed some people here bought their MBs for status and/or driving pleasure though I don't understand how someone can enjoy driving a luxury car that by many people's accounts break down frequently. Personally I didn't buy my MB for status or "driving pleasure" but because it was a diesel and I wanted to experiment with biodiesel. My car is old but has only 143,000. It ran 2 weeks before dying. Found hard starting cause fuel to wash away cylinder oil, pushing the already low compression engine below the minimum compression threshhold. A squirt of oil and three down weeks got it started. Now the injection pump is dead.

I brought this up before but I have a John Deere bulldozer that is the same year as my MB. It requires no glow plugs and starts instantly, everytime, even during Michigan winters. Lots of people rave about the MB engineering but it has still not been explained to me why JD was able to design such an easy starting, superior engine during the same timeframe.