92 Mercedes Benz 300E W124 1 Owner Full Video Review

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[gosportjamie]

That is a really nice W124. A lot of the Mercedes experts regard the 124 as the best car Mercedes ever made and I have to say I agree heartily, I have a couple of friends have them, one has an 85 300TD, that was the British designation for the estate/wagon with the naturally-aspirated 5-cylinder diesel 3-litre engine which I don't think you got in the states, I think you only got it with the turbo like in the S-Class, The car has been in his family since new, it started off as his dads company car and it now has over 850, 000 miles on it, never broken down, never failed to finish a journey all on the original engine and (manual) gearbox and it certainly was never babied, it's racked up quite a few speeding tickets on the autobahn in Germany... When he decided to have the car restored rather than part with it because it was getting a bit tatty he had a Mercedes expert pull the engine down for a look-see and to sort a minor oil leak that it had since it was about 4 years old from the head/block joint, the report came back that everything in the engine was still well within factory tolerances, in fact the engineer said that he'd have been quite happy to put it back together with the original parts just new gaskets and consumables. My friend did opt to have the engine fully rebuilt but it really didn't need it. The oil was seeping very gently from a slightly perished seal on the original head gasket, and I mean seeping, it lost about quarter of a litre a year. When the new head gasket went in the engineer noted that Mercedes had redesigned the gasket with different type of oil seals, presumably to cure that problem...

With the paint, as you've probably noticed yourself as you sell a lot of Mercedes, the original paint quality on cars after about 1990/91 isn't as good. This is because at this time the German government was trying to reduce pollution from car manufacturing and therefore forced car manufacturers to stop using solvent-based two pack paint and switch to water-based paint. The problem was water-based paint was very new technology then so it still had a lot of developing to do and it needed very different spraying techniques to work as well as it could so a lot, and I mean almost all German cars from that period on had significantly worse original paint than their forerunners It wasn't just Mercedes that was affected, indeed Volkswagen and Audi were more affected to the point where some lost their paint so quickly the dealers had to take them back and repaint them at Volkswagen and Audis expense. BMW seemed to cope better but definitely some colours from that era definitely deteriorated much more quickly than that on older models. Being a California car obviously the sun and the heat has got to that lacquer, made it dry out and then crack and peel, from the amount of sun damage to the leather on the front seats and on the wood it is probably a fair bet that this car spent a lot of time out in the sun rather than cosied up in a garage. The fact is that the paint on these later Mercs isn't as good and does deteriorate more quickly than the earlier cars but being a California car and this straight with a decent paint job in two-pack or latest generation water-based paint it will look like a very expensive car, as you said sorting the seats is dead cheap out there and if you look on ebay you can probably find used replacement wood trim for peanuts either from a broken European car or from one of the less sunny and dry states because the wood trim on the centre console is standard pattern for all markets that the W124 was sold in. Of course where you are in California serious corrosion isn't a big problem but in Europe the early C-Class and the W210 E-class that replaced the W124 became renowned as bad to horrific rotters and a lot have made tho one-way trip to the breakers with terminal corrosion, not just in the bodywork but in the chassis, especially front crossmembers. That combined with the fact that that time also marked the change in Mercedes policy from building basic but beautifully engineered cars where if you wanted all the toys you had to pay (generally a lot, for example in the UK on a 1992 300E manual air-conditioning was a roughly £1, 000 extra and climate control like this car almost double in 1992 money, so now about $4, 000 to nearly $8000, cruise control £500 then or about $2000 now on top of a £25, 000 car) extra for them to building cars with lots of toys on them as standard but less well-engineered and with much less high-quality parts and now nobody wants W210 E-classes because almost all of them now have electrical problems, gearbox problems, failed heaters and heater controls, faulty central locking, electronic steering locks that jam or just give up the ghost with no warning, fried engine wiring looms like the S-class you've mentioned several times, interior trim that doesn't last and the rust. Hell, I could walk out of my house tomorrow and buy 20 year 2000 or newer E-classes, saloon and estate/wagon for £500 or less apiece within 10 miles of my front door and that's just from dealers that I personally know... How the mighty have fallen, sadly... That's why the newer Mercs depreciate horribly and an awful lot of dealers will steer well clear of them. The rust shouldn't be an issue for a California car but sorting electrical problems can be a killer in time and in money as the parts are not cheap and a lot of them can't be swapped from car to car as used parts, say from a parts car because a lot of them have to be coded to the car. And, of course, sadly the newer cars just don't feel anything like as special as the old ones. One of the more highly regarded motoring magazines in the UK tested the 2001 C-Class (the one with the oval headlights) that was new that year and said straight out that the Ford Mondeo was a much nicer car with better ride and handling, better build quality, a better made and just generally nicer and much larger interior for a lot less money that the C-Class and to be honest as time has passed that is still the case though now the Mondeo has proved to be massively more reliable and because it's a Ford one hell of a lot cheaper to fix...

[kayrokk]

The biggest flaw I can see is that the finish on the right rear wheel doesn't match the other wheels, it's a silver alloy color while the rest appear to be chrome

[vibrantvitalityvibes]

Missing the front plastic stoneguard under the
engine

[priscillalimon]

I just purchased one same make model just now two week's ago. Purse like s kitty smootn driving flying down the coast! Pure white needs a paint job to..

[Hipstercars]

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