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[Grumpy]

Just put my 17 year old clockwork Merc through its
15th MOT. Had it since 2 yrs old, always serviced
it myself and its never failed yet.

It's a slow old 2.0l Diesel Auto with a 0-60 time of
circa 20 seconds  , but scuttles along at legal
limits all day long.

The only non-service item I've had to replace in 15 yrs
is a pair of engine mounts. It's even still on the original
discs which I inspected this weekend and stiil can't
fault. It's gone through 2 batterys, 1 exhaust system,
and a set of glowplugs and that's it apart from routine
filters,fluids and brakepads.

Why don't Mercedes make cars like this anymore?  :-/

Edit: Forgot to mention, mileage is now at 151,000.

[Sixstring]

Reason.....
They are not making any money out of it on servicing, parts, breakdowns, and it lasts so well, people keep it for 15-odd years and don't buy another one!!

[MickAP]

Nice when they keep going and going

Mick

[Welung666]

I had a 3.0 diesel auto W123 for years and never had a problem with it. It was mainly a tow vehicle and did lots of high mile motoway runs. Absolutely invinsible that car was!

[Sixstring]

Funnily enough, had the choice of miggy 3.0 elite estate and T reg 300TE est Merc when i bought mine. Merc had 248k on the clock, but you wouldn't know it, Miggy had 148k on a T reg.

I bought the miggy, they were the same price (roughly) but miggy was the best interior, bodywork, and least miles with best mot.
I reckon I made the right choice.

[Del Boy]

Funnily enough, had the choice of miggy 3.0 elite estate and T reg 300TE est Merc when i bought mine. Merc had 248k on the clock, but you wouldn't know it, Miggy had 148k on a T reg.

I bought the miggy, they were the same price (roughly) but miggy was the best interior, bodywork, and least miles with best mot.
I reckon I made the right choice.

They rust worse than a Miggy too 

[henryd]

a mate of mine has an 89 300d auto,265k miles and runs well but body is starting to fall apart now

[waspy]

They have a a 1998 merc at my local chippy, i've never seen a car so rusty, bottoms of doors, middle of the doors, around all four wheel arches & so on.
It's a mess

[omegod]

I was running an 89 190e 2.0 before the miggy and TBH miss it a lot, built like a tank and was mint!

Paid £390 of the bay, ran it for near 3 years and sold it for £400.

[henryd]

thats cheap motoring

[pedroMV6]

Just put my 17 year old clockwork Merc through its
15th MOT. Had it since 2 yrs old, always serviced
it myself and its never failed yet.

It's a slow old 2.0l Diesel Auto with a 0-60 time of
circa 20 seconds  , but scuttles along at legal
limits all day long.

The only non-service item I've had to replace in 15 yrs
is a pair of engine mounts. It's even still on the original
discs which I inspected this weekend and stiil can't
fault. It's gone through 2 batterys, 1 exhaust system,
and a set of glowplugs and that's it apart from routine
filters,fluids and brakepads.

Why don't Mercedes make cars like this anymore?  :-/

Edit: Forgot to mention, mileage is now at 151,000.

Tie-ups with Chrysler!
As soon as Chrysler got involved, quality suffered a helluva lot!

Anyhow, nice to hear about your Merc - let's hope it sees another 15 MOT's!
My Dad bought a 1964/3 (C reg) 220 for £80 back in 1979. It was used as a chicken coop for years, but a good (and I do mean good!) clean up, a 35p cog for the distributer and a new battery, couple of brake pipes for the MOT and he it ran  for a couple of years before he sold it to a guy who made him an offer he couldn't refuse..........
I wonder how many bodies the boot could hold - but definitely more than one!