Any advice about older (cheaper) Sprinters would be appreciated. My wife and I would love to buy an older Sprinter and make a hillbilly RV. We've test driven several and really like them. Drove one today that had 438K miles. It still drove very well but I'm scared of any vehicle (especially a fleet type) with that many miles. I've been told that they are very specialized vehicles (so far as tools and diagnostics are concerned). Any words of wisdom on older, higher milage Sprinters?

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John Schroader
bio burnin' 83 300D, '83 300 SD, '79 240D
"I've never met a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else" Ben Franklin
"You cannot permanently help a man by doing for him what he could and should do for himself" Abraham Lincoln

the beauty of most fleet vehicles, is the mileage is usually highway, or at the very least, it's continuous daily miles, not start/stop/start/stop... and service is usually done by a company regularly.

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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!

There's a Sprinter group at Yahoo where you could find some good advice. If you really want a Sprinter RV, it might be worth looking on www.mobile.de. There are tons of them on there and usually at good prices. It could save a lot of work doing the RV conversion. Model numbers are not the same in Europe. Don't know what the implications of importation might be.

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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