Hi, new guy here.

New to the site, but not new to forums .

I just bought my first Mercedes-Benz a few day ago. It's a 93 300 D 2.5 turbo diesel with 176,000 miles and it runs fantastic .

I do all mechanical work on my own vehicles, but i must admit i'm new to diesel's, turbo's and bavarian automobiles in general, and i'm quite intimidated by this car.

But, i'm looking forward to learning as much as possible about this little car .

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93 300 D 2.5 turbo

Bavarian?

You have us confused with the Bayerische Mist Wagen.

We are Stuttgartian!


Oh..............welcome.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

I've done some research on the car on google. And it says this car is somewhat rare and saught after, is this true ?

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93 300 D 2.5 turbo

It's a great car, if you like Diesel passenger cars. It should be pretty reliable. Keep it running!

Stuttgart is the capital of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

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It is one of my absolute favorite diesel MB's.

Don't be - once you start wrenching on it you will see the engineering in the car.

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Jim

Thanks for the welcome guys.

And thanks for setting me straight on the Bavarian and Stuttgartian thing, you probably saved me some future embarrasment .

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93 300 D 2.5 turbo

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Welcome! Later this afternoon I'm going to buy a 1995 300D. Are you interested in alternative fuels for it? The Diesel forum has a very active constituency in that regard. Use the search function over there. Most anything you want to ask has been already asked and sometimes answered and argued over many days, even months.

To be a huge hit, start a thread on oil or fuel additives, hah! (No, don't do that! It drives everybody into an uproar.)

B

Welcome. We need more Okies around here.

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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.

"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".

Oh i know how the forums work . I've seen newbies get slaughtered for asking the same commonly asked questions before reading stickies and always search, search, search first !!


I'm deffinately interested in alternative fuels for this car .

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93 300 D 2.5 turbo

FIFY

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

I'm sending Pistol Pete to kick your a$$!

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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.

"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".

Better bring yer lunch.


FB - nope. Bball (twice) - nope. Wrestling - nope.

Keep up the good work.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii

Yeah, we've had a down year in sports across the board. (Did manage to win our bowl game though.)
Gotta ask, did you graduate from or attend OU (or your spouse or kids)? If so, I'll good-naturedly trade jibes with a worthy counterpart. But we'd have to do another thread unless Glowplug has a particular loyalty he/she would like to express.

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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.

"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".

I graduated from OU, was there during Bud's early years but I don't know about the "worthy counterpart" part.

BTW, I neglected to place a at the end of previous post. "Good-natured" jibes are "in".

It's all these texans we've got to be concerned with. J/K, guys.

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62 220sb
67 250S
72 280SE 4.5
74 280C
77 300D
82 240D
85 190E 2.3
86 300E RIP 12/28/09
85 300SD
92 300D 2.5
00 E320 Current
Over 1,000,000 miles in Benzes, Since66

....and a whole passel of BMW 2002 and Tii