Welcome!
Lets see some pictures of your cars!
how far are you from Stuttgart?

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

If he is in Frankfurt then he's a couple hours away (at auto-bahn speeds)

It took us about 2 hours and 20 mins to drive from Frankfurt airport to Sindelfingen....we had a c220cdi

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Thank you for the warm welcome!
I am in Frankfurt, which is about two hours from Stuttgart via Autobahn.
What amazes me most, is that Mercedes sends only four diesel models to the USA. Only one is a saloon. Here, half of the cars are diesels. Fuel has always been cheap in the USA, but as conflict in the Middle East grows, prices are going up. Thus the need for more fuel efficient cars arises. I do not understand why Mercedes does not sell the C220 CDI, E220 CDI, etc. across the Atlantik. The E220 CDI accomplishes 42 MPG on your scale and is available with a manual transmission. For those who want power, the V8 CDI models are perfect. Enough power, and and relatively good consumption on the highway.

I guess I shouldn't be boasting of fuel consumption of our CDIs when my daily driver is a 6,2 liter AMG V8

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-Karl
2007 CLS63 AMG - 6k - silver/black
2005 E420 CDI - 58k - red/tan
1980 240D 5spd - 253k - creme/tan - das Altvergnügen

Bitte vergib mich, weil mein Englisch nicht so gut ist.

Greetings, welcome to the forum. My wife and I loved our visit to Frankfurt many years ago, even though we traveled mit der Bahn instead of by Mercedes.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

Welkommen

My father's mother and father came to USA from Germany also, long ago, from towns in Rhineland, and settled in San Francisco.

My father never cared about Mercedes, the Diesels (W115 I think) he rode in sounded to him "like a bucket of bolts" and he like the quiet smooth Cadillacs better, but mostly only purchased Fords.

The 240 D is a great car. Many of the good W123 cars were sold at autojumbles and went to Lebanon and the middle east or gastarbeiters took them back to Turkey and other lands.

More failed the TuV inspection and went to West Africa.

Others got stolen and went to Albania and Eastern Europe.

You are lucky to still have yours and it passed the TuV

They are still good cars to look at and drive even today. The diesels can last about forever, if the rust doesn't kill them

Most of the W123 we have in USA are 240/300 Diesels.
Some were beat on real bad and still run.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lQqymt9HvQM

Good to see you here, it is the best place to learn about the W123 diesels.

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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)