Look what happened to me on the way to work today (pic)
 

I just had to share this milestone with you guys (see pic)... 200K miles! :D

CONGRATULATIONS :party: :2thumbsup :beerchug:

Welcome to the 200k+ Club :D

BTW How come your Temperature readout is in deg.C ??

Hope both of mine see that mark without significant investment required.

Yes Congratulations!! :dancefool

Good thing you had a camera handy!! Hope you don't start work at 7:00 because your gonna be late.
Was that you I saw on the highway taking pictures doing 80 mph??

JK

My temp reads on Deg C also. It's not that hard to convert to deg F.
F=C x 1.8 + 32

Danny

On March 17, 2004, after I arrived home,
 

I borrowed my wife's digital camera and then drove around the neighborhood for about 10 minutes so that I could take a picture of the odo on our '85 300TD when it turned to 333333. But I'm the third owner and could only claim credit for about 24,000 of that.

Both my cars read in degrees C.

Easy to convert.

Take reading x 2
Subtract 10% of that
Add to 32

For example:

If reading is 14, multiply by 2 to get 28.
Now subtract 2.8 and you get 25.2, or about 25.
Add to 32 and the result is 57 degrees F

The problem here is that you shouldn't try to convert:
 

that's what gets people all uptight about measuring systems other than their own. If you just get used to what 20c feels like, you don't have to calculate that you feel the same as you would at 68f. And the same goes for 130 kph vs 80.6 mph.

That's why we have so many people in this country who can't speak English.

Danny

I am surprised that so many US cars have Celsius Temerature readouts.
My SDL from Texas has a Deg.F readout and I have been thinking about changing it for a Deg.C gauge.

another low mileage diesel MB, sigh.

200,000 miles--COOL!

Where's the temp thing come from? Can this be bought as a seperate part? I'd like one in my 123.
Thanks.

I'm an American. I drive in Miles, I measure small distances in inches, feet and yards, I tell temperature in Farenheit.

I speak some German and Hindi, but I think in English.

Sorry, it'll always be a conversion for me....

Congrats, your car just lost about $500 to $1,000 resale value....

My dad's 83SD rolled over to 257000 this morning. :D

I took this one last year some time. Half a million km. 300TD, completed the last 180,000km on straight fat.

Well if he's not planning on selling it, it doesn't much matter.

Nice milestone. What part of DFW do you live in?

I might trade you my C for your F....

Not sure what all has to be removed, the sensor, cable and display unit?

My bulb(s) burnt out a while back but while it's out it shouldn't be a really tough replacement job...
but then again I've gotten pretty good at estimating Fahrenheit temperatures based on the degrees Celcius anyway.

Some are pretty basic and can be / have been memorized:
-20 deg C = -4 deg F - if it gets this cold I might plug in the block heater
-10 deg C = 14 deg F - starts fine without the block heater but why
-5 deg C = 23 deg F my 300D wouldn't start at this temperature
0 deg C = 32 deg F - watch out for black ice (love that +0.0 or -0.0, the F display on my 300TE just shows "32 deg F")
10 deg C = 50 deg F - moderately warm, nice - spring!!!
20 deg C = 68 deg F - standard room temperature for lots of stuff
25 deg C = 77 deg F - warm room temperature
30 deg C = 86 deg F - tropical.. at these temps I drive the gas car cuz the AC works :)
anything over this is just too hot :sun_smile

just remember that 10 deg C = 18 deg F so I do some math in my head while driving... keeps the mind occupied

That's OK, I don't plan on selling it. The car has been in our family since new (it was my mom's). She gave it to me at 182K and I've enjoyed the hell out of wrenching on it it and getting back to a very solid daily driver. The car for me is a dependable decent looking ride that I can drive hard and put all my commute miles on. From what I tell, if you do very rigourous maintenance, these cars pay you back mile after mile.

My nissan is so dorked with it won't pass emmissions so it's a show / track car at this point it and stays off the road except to keep the battery charged (it's a backup to the 84 300SD I guess). The CLK55 is a garage queen... in 4 years I think I got caught out in the rain once. It's just a weekend car.

As to JimmyL's question - officially our house is in Lewisville, really just north of Carrollton.

congrats and welcome to the 2k club.

Let us know when you get into the 3k club. :vbac47679

Just play with your unfamilar measurement types until you get comfy with them. Its what I did with 24 hour time on my watch and now degrees C in the benz and whenever I get near a thermomter. Even the PC status program I use has degrees C displayed. I am a chem major...go figure :rolleyes:

F Readout
 

Umm this might be a little easier:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=7965202224&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT

F degree readout for your Temp gauge. Oh and all you gotta do is pull out the Instrument Cluster and unscrew 2 screws to change the gauge out.


http://www.benzbonz.biz

Marty

600,000
 

I've recently completed 250,000km on straight fat and the car now has over 600,000km in total. She just keeps getting better.Attachment 36596

Easy to remember Centigrade scale
 

From a "bilingual" Canadian who travels frequently in the US

Centigrade temperature Actual reading in a real scale

over +30 Summer in Washington DC

+25 a nice summer day in New England

+20 downtown San Fran in the spring

+10 a cool fall day in upstate Michigan

0 freezing point

-10 "brutal cold" for a NYC newscaster

-20 Minnesota or N Dakota winter

below - 25 Alaska winter

When you say Bilingual do you mean English and American?

I believe it is pronounced "Americanese" as stated in Hot Shots part II.

part deux

I love the FAT light! :laugh:

Extra Credit
 

i am now at 394500 miles not them little km's do i get extra credit when i get to 400000????? Had an accident 6 weeks ago been arguien with insurance ever since the 25 year old adjuster thought he did me a favor after all the fighting to offer me $2400 guess i'll buy it back and run up another 100000 maybe i can hit 400000 on thanksgiving wont i be thankful God is GOOD

I just rolled over 247k last night when I got home from school at midnight. I got home, parked, and looked at it, and it said a perfect "247000" I was very pleased :D

My dad is only 24.5k away from 300,000! He drives hundreds of miles a week, so he'll be there in no time!

The big event about me hitting 247k is that this means I have driven the car 40k since I bought it. (had 207,128 on it when I left the point of purchase) Not bad! I've only had it 3 years and 2 months...:D

I just calculated that you will hit 1,000,000 miles in about 59.612 years at your current rate. ;)

I'm really bored. :D

400
 

My 240D's currently at 379905. I expect to be at 400000 within the next year or so. I'm looking forward to being able to capture the event either on video or with a still picture that I'll post.

- Peter.

260000 mi. for an '83 240D
 

I'll hit 260,000 miles tomorrow:D

I hit 200K in my 210 not long ago. Unfortunately, I haven't been getting the pleasure of driving that car lately, since I prefer getting chauferred in a Jetta. We recently turned 1700 miles on that one...

The Jetta is great on fuel, getting over 42 overall, before it's even broken in. But it will never have the comfort of the Benz. On the other hand, if it gets hit on the near future, we'll probably come out better on the insurance payout on the new Jetta than on a 10 year old MB.

Oh Yeah!
 

Congrats....

Sure wish my outside temp gauge worked...

This taken on June 6
 

And it still goes!

My coupe rolled 243k yesterday on the way back from Jersey:D

I will roll over 333333 pretty soon. Keeping an eye on it.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...85Stuff144.jpg
:D

You just can't kill a good rod bender. 526,379 and still going strong.










'87 560SL 147,000
'87 300SDL 254,000
'94 SL500 40,000
'91 350SD 526,379

That is because they usually kill themselves! ;)

Your's is great mileage for any engine!!! Nice.....