They would be easy to locate at a junk yard and not cost you much.


If you have trouble with removal, slip a Spanish speaking worker there a $20, and say "Por favor, ayudame" ("Please help me") and you'll have
it out in minutes. <-----at least in So Calif.



(I agree with everyone's advice also, but would add, it's a good time with the mileage and age, to change out the timing chain, tensioner, and especially he plastic guides, which could have hairline cracks of age by now, and if they let go it would be a disaster)


Not too much rear seat legroom, but the W201 sedans like yours, are very well built, attractive Mercedes Benzes, and since they began being assembled in '83 and are from that era, have a proven track record as VERY durable cars.


They are higly prized in West Africa and used for taxis there even today,


See the new book "My Mercedes is (not) for sale" -- a fascinating story about a Dutch guy who picks up an old 1988 signal red 190D 2.2 W201 sedan cheap in Holland, and his subsequent adventures driving it to West Africa from Europe.

One idea he posits in the book is that the POORER the country is -- (*anywhere*) -- in the world, the MORE 190 Mercedes Benz W201 sedans you will see there, being used as taxicabs, in their capital cities.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)