Your price range? How much did that ML set you back? :)
Luther KB5QHU Oak Park, IL
'87 300SDL (312,xxx mi)
'91 Dodge Ram 150 (290,xxx mi)
On 5/2/2011 4:00 PM, OK Don wrote:
I started my search with a '70 220D, moved up to the '76 300D, then a '81
240D and SDL. After reading all the glowing praise for the 124s, I finally
bought Snook's '90 300D 2.5T, and quickly decided that it is the ultimate
Diesel, in my price range. I now own two of them. They are not all that
much more complex than a 123 300D, have less maintenance (no valve
adjustments), last just as long (my dily driver has 351,000 miles now), and
drive better (a subjective opinion). No, I haven't seen the Start article,
so don't know what they used for criteria, but I still humbly disagree.
All that having been said, I do hope that the CDI models prove durable and
reliable enough that buying one when the depreciation brings them into my
purchase range I can drive them.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:31 PM, andrew strasfogel<astrasfo...@gmail.com>wrote:
In my book the W123 300TD wagon wins hand down. Fun to drive,
economical, easy to work on, and highly practical.
Andrew
1983 300TD White/blue
1985 300TD Diamond blue/blue
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Dieselhead<126die...@gmail.com> wrote:
May/June issue of the Star has an article about searching for the perfect
Diesel. It turned out to be a 123 300D That is a hard to beat model,
but
I'd still pick an SDL as the best Diesel, with the 87 TD and 87 300D as
contenders.
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OK Don
2001 ML320
1992 300D 2.5T
1990 300D 2.5T
1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager
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