I quite like the 201, I've had 2 and while they're a little bit more finiky than a 123 they reward you with much better manners.
More slightly built though, I've commented on the wheel bearings, also of note are the door cards which are cardboard where I rest my elbow and I tend to poke dimples into them... -Curt Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:51:21 -0400 From: Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] RE; New car expensive parts. was: my kinda car Message-ID: <caciok3smgnkasj_mgshaod_ut6upbyaygnv_xpuybwza7hx...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 way back in the day when we first met there was a lot of talk of the W201 being the worst car in MB history and the W124 being perhaps the best, i argued that the cars were essentially so similar that i might be more a matter of the care they received, which was less for the 201 than the 124 as it was further down the food chain. i believe this still to be true i once saw a guy in brevard, NC with an MGB that looked great. i lamented how unreliable and short lived they were. he agreed, explaining that he thinks he might need to replace the original engine soon and it only has 680k miles on it you keep em up, they last a while On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I think its more maintenance than anything else. VW does require maybe a > bit more maintenance than other cars and I think VW owners are a bit less > likely to keep up with that maintenance. > A friend has a 2001 Jetta gasser with 250,000+ miles but he keeps right up > with maintenance. He's had very few problems overall. > > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
