"Ducky" (Ducky)
04/01/2015 at 08:56 • Filed to: None
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"Ducky" (Ducky)
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She likes the look and MPG, I like the obsessive seller listing.
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How hard are parts to source for this thing? Will it run forever? WWOD?
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Ducky
04/01/2015 at 09:03 |
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Will be painfully slow, but depending on the circumstances of that engine swap it very possibly *will* run forever. Rust kills these to some extent, but Lord High OCD who currently owns it has probably worked against that. Might need some suspension parts - things like the rear diff bushings or front ball joints - but likely not anything unpossible. That has the best A/C system for these, which is a non-climate control normal A/C. The ones with climate are more fiddly.
Parts are pretty easy - you can get used parts from a number of sources such as the Benz Store in Atlanta, and new parts in a fair range of places.
PlasteredClover
> Ducky
04/01/2015 at 09:03 |
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I would love to own one of these things at some point, is the maintenance on them bad? I know their reputation for being indestructible, but I wonder if the age starts to make them hard to maintain.
twochevrons
> Ducky
04/01/2015 at 09:09 |
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I don't know much about the W123, but if your girlfriend is looking at buying something like that, then she's definitely a keeper!
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Ducky
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/01/2015 at 09:10 |
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I'm driving a '95 Civic CX with 70 horses of fury, she understands slow. Thanks for your advice dude, it's a cool car but old Old World is a hole in my automotive knowledge
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Ducky
04/01/2015 at 09:16 |
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We've got three of them in the family: a '78 240D auto, a '79 240D stick, and a '85 300D auto. The '78 jumped time with all that entails and has been waiting on an engine rebuild, the '79 is offline for the moment due to manic oil consumption in one cylinder (just... not even there rings-wise), and the 300D is getting repainted. No serious all-wrecking reliability issues, but we tend to take in the infirm...
Agrajag, HarryCarry, and several other opponauts have them, as well as others in the past.