Hello all!
I purchased my 1985 300d turbo in july of 2012. I am the 4th owner. I have named her Sadie the 80's Mercedes from Hades, lol! I use to own a diesel 1986 isuzu P'UP that my dad gave to me in the late 90's as my first vehicle. In my youth (stupidity) I traded it for a grand am. I loved the car, but missed that reliability of the diesel P'UP. I was on a quest to find another P'UP when I came across these beauties and I fell in love with them! My wife did too, which is just awesome! I paid $1100 for her (the car not the wife!) and I drove down to TN to get it. I was on the road for 24 hours straight since I had to get the rental back at 10am the next day. My wife stayed in a hotel and drove the 300d back the next day.

The car does have some probelms (shocker, I know ) The vac system was all screwed up, the seat springs were all broken, wipers didn't work, A/C had been converted but didn't work, alignment was shot, tires were a mess due to improper alignment, hail damage and paint fade, odometer broken, rear defrost didn't work, trunk leaks, oil leaks, low trans fluid, low coolant, alternator won't charge battery during idle (found out the hard way), fuel gauge wasn't working properly (hard way again), on and on with typical problems. I found the real problem when I got her home and jacked up. One of the PO's drove her off the road or hit a curb or something that dug a groove on the passenger side from the front floor board to the back seat and.....it started to rust!!

Now onto the things I've done to the car. New tires, alignment, fixed most of the vac problems but still have a leak somehwere, fixed odometer, oil changes, lubed a lot of stuff, noodled the seats, new break pads, used some rust stop products on the groove, filled it in with bondo, used rubberized undercoat spray, seriously cleaned fuel sending unit (squeaky clean!) and works great now, charged A/C worked in the summer but charge has leaked off now, cleaned out banjo bolt and line at intake manifold (snapped the line like a friggin idoit...have a temp fix in place), diesel purge and new filters, changed coolant to zerex g05 from the blue/green stuff that was in there, but I forgot to drain the coolant at the engine drain so I pretty much wasted my money there, I removed the EGR and that's pretty much it.

From what I can tell by the color codes and pics on google. I have Smoke Silver paint and henna red MBtex interior. I have the service records from the PO's except the last guy that owned it who didn't really do any work to it that I can tell. Anyway here are the pics (hopefully they work!)