"Tinkerbell", my favorite little 190D just turned over 400,000 miles!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8CD07dBJRU

Of course, the odometer promptly locks up...... . I guess not everything on the car was meant to last this long.

Klaus

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‘84 300TD “Mountain Goat”
'62 300d Adenauer-350 Chevy - "Max"
'15 VW Passat TDI
'16 Dodge Ram 3500 - Cummins w/6-speed
'68 Mustang fastback
'55 T-bird
‘63 Studebaker Hawk

Congratulations. I was saying to somebody the other day how cool it is to be part of a group of guys who brag about how many (not how few) miles they have on their cars.

I'm not aware of any other manufacturer promoting efforts to keep their cars on the road for so long. It speaks well of MB in spite of their less-than-stellar attention to quality control in recent years.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Congrats!

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Yep, you're with a group that enjoys stuff like that..... Did it finally turn over some more after a few more miles? I guess maybe turning over all those tumblers might have caused the gear to slip on the shaft. {if it is similar to W123's}

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Just think how many miles you'd have on it if you didn't drive 6 cars?

'97 E300D - 205,000 miles
'92 190E 2.6 "Swoozie" - 106,000 miles
'89 190E 2.6 5-speed - 187,000 miles
'85 190D now a 5-speed - "Sweet Pea" - 213,000 miles
'85 190D auto. "Salt Shaker" - 236,000 miles
'84 190D 5-speed "Tinkerbell"- 400,000 miles -

congrats- I am less than 1500 from 300k on my only benz....

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1984 123.193 372,xxx miles, room for Seven.

1999 Dodge Durango Cummins 4BTAA 47RE 5k lb 4x4 getting 25+mpgs, room for Seven.

That's the way to go!

LOL! You sound like me wife!

I think she says it's about "quality not quantity".... or something insane like that......

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‘84 300TD “Mountain Goat”
'62 300d Adenauer-350 Chevy - "Max"
'15 VW Passat TDI
'16 Dodge Ram 3500 - Cummins w/6-speed
'68 Mustang fastback
'55 T-bird
‘63 Studebaker Hawk

Congrats!! Certainly a noble milestone.

Really, the 400k club..? Is that some sort Alumni, for a college fraternity, or more like the Free Masons...? LOL

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Congrats! I've got about 12k more miles to go myself, only a few months.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Cool! At 412k you can get your 500km badge right?

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Congratulations.

Jeremy

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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

Actually, 500K km = 310K miles; 750K km = 466K miles.

I keep meaning to do that, I guess I'll just wait for 1000K km (621K miles).

At the rate you drive you'll be their in 3 years.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200