I will be hitting the 400K mark... as soon as I fix my Odometer..... I gotta wonder how many miles are ACTUALLY on the baby.

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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 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Congratulations. With that much salt on the car, I'm surprised it's lasted that long. Has it had any body work?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I have always enjoyed the salt streaks too. It shows the path the air takes as it flows around the car.

I have always appreciated the smooth shape of the 126 body.

Congratulations on the achievment in a "rod bender".....kindof puts the lie to it too.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Austin has a red W123 300CD with over 500,000 miles on it.

I think he posts under something link Omegabenz.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

I have a 500,000km badge for the car, I just haven't put it on there yet. I also have a badge for my '87 420SEL which is at 285k.

When people say that "they don't make them like they used to," I tend to believe them, especially when I'm driving this beast around. I drove my mom's 2000 e320 wagon this past week out to CO and back and I will contend that it does drive like a Chrysler (but I'm not going to go there in this post )

Thanks for the nice feedback!

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1995 E420
1998 SL500 Sport
2009 E350 Sport
1995 S500 Coupe
1992 500 SEL

It has been posted a few times before... the average distance to the moon is around 233K miles I think. So you have been to the moon an back! Congrats.

oldsouth has a '95 S350 with over 350,000 miles, and the engine is original:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?p=1743649#post1743649

Maybe these engines aren't so bad after all?

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

You've got over 500,000 on your '91 350SD, I've got 512,000 on my '91 350SD. We're probably in the top five of the highest mileage vehicles on this forum. Isn't it ironic, you so much as mention any 350SD or 350SDL and you see an immediate negative response, rod bender, worst diesel engine ever made by Mercedes, Mercedes loses class action lawsuit, response, and here we are with a couple 500,000 mile vehicles! Not that I'm disputing, any of the claims against the 350 engine. I am not! I just think it ironic, if not funny that the most maligned engine in Mercedes Benz history has two of them making it to 500,000 mile mark.

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jcciem
'94 SL5000 60,000
'91 350SDL 545,000
'91 350SD 197,000
'00 E55 AMG 77,000

It's because you drive nice.
Try jack-rabbit starting it, followed by hard downshifts and those rods should bend for you so you can be like everyone else

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'83 300D Turbo
Current: ???K mi - 19.2mpg -> 17.4mpg -> 22.9mpg ---> ODO Died
bought at: 233.8K mi - 10MPG For $1.00
3.5 cylinders work: 320 320 100 340 280
Got insurance? FarmersReallySucks.Com

You could probably mention the Mercedes rod bender, Chevy Vega's all aluminum engine and the early Mazda rotary engines in the same sentence. They were all notoriously short lived engines due to poor engineering. GM's 5.7L diesel engines were probably better engines than the rod bender.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

i have faith my SDL can hit 500000 just broke 414000 yesterday

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commercial fisherman diesel in my blood in my boats trucks and Dear old Dad has had me drivin them since i got my first license in 1968
1986 300 SDL 427654
1999 Chevy Crew Cab Dually 225423
1986 300 SDL 287000 Dad's
1987 190 Turbo 158000 Mom's (my inheritance)

I think I'm going to hold off on badges until I can get 1,000,000 the mile badge.

WoW I cannot belieable, Congratulations

Some of us are more fortunate than others....

The engine's been replaced twice in mine, and the mileage is just shy of 300K. I'll get to 500K with the 3.0 liter, no problem.

At least you only had the engine done once....But it was still done....

Oldsouth's S350, still has a problem burning oil, last I heard. I think he was also the one who found a way to cork the EGR while tricking the computer to allow full boost.

Don't know what the problem is with these things. And we likely never will.

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1987 300SDL (324000)

1986 Porsche 951 (944 Turbo) (166000)

1978 Porsche 924 (99000)

1996 Nissan Pathfinder R50 (201000)

Our 300D looks about that dirty right now....its on "winter weather duty"

Congrats on the 500k! Wow! Ours still have a looong way to go to that point.

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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)