Just make sure you don't take thier first offer -- be prepared with a counter.


I have no doubt whatsoever that you are absolutely right. I doubt you could have avoided hitting the other car if you'd been driving a rice burner or an American midsize, much less walked away.

I bless these cars every time I pass an accident site, every time I have a near miss, always. DH John drives 120 miles round trip to work every day. He's hit a deer and all we had to do was replace his grille on the 300D, while the same accident in a Ford Explorer found us needing a bunch of sheet metal.

Even when I cuss them for being such a PITA to fix sometimes (I'm chasing electrical gremlins this weekend, and that would drive me to distraction in ANY car!), I know we are so much safer in them than anything else we could drive short of a Sherman tank, and both TxDOT and DPS take a dim view of putting those on the public roadways....

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Anthracite 1980 300D -- 64k original miles with a new engine, on the road again!
Silver 300D -- second owner, Sunny's old baby, Ilse, 210 miles,
Having to thin the herd….
Silver 1983 300SD -- second owner, 325k miles
Gold 1981 300D -- well-traveled, solid little car
Beige 1984 300D -- 292k miles, grease machine, parting out
Seafoam green 1981 300SD -- 250k, windshield frame damage
too many assorted w123 & w126 cars, parts cars, and extras