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DITTRICH

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Haven't posted anything in a long while but wanted to share:-

My 1999 w202 c230k saloon (reg MBC230K!) passed 200,000 miles yesterday.
It only took 16 years, 15 of them in my ownership.
Sadly, the cosmetic rust and car park dinks courtesy of her indoors detract from a pretty mechanically sound car which has just come back from a 2,000 mile trip to Switzerland taking in Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, and the Susten, Furka and Grimsel passes. Breathtaking stuff if a little expensive on the wallet.

It still gives me a smile every time I floor the accelerator, it drops 2 gears, kompressor spools up, and I whizz pass the offenders in the blink of an eye.
Same engine, same kompressor, same monowiper and same gearbox as when it was made.
 
My E430 passed the 200,000 mark around six months ago. Still going strong. :thumb:
 
I don't think they make them to last any more, my 2011 e350 has been in the garage 3 times in the last 12 mouths and its only got 35,000 on the clock.
Build quality seems to gone these days, they seem to be going for quantity not quality judging from the number of Mercedes on the road today
 
Sadly, Mercedes don't 'over engineer' their cars anymore.
W202's were built like tanks. I should have kept mine. Regrets, regrets.
 
Sold my trusty w210 e320 petrol to a customer at 200,000 currently on 212,000 runs sweet as a nut and the interior shows little sign of the mileage it's covered.
 
Just goes to show how different ones experience can be. My E320 estate was full of rust and was only 15 years old when I got rid of it. The drivers side rear adjacent to the washer bottle had a hole in the floor I could put my hand through.
 
Gene said:
Sadly, Mercedes don't 'over engineer' their cars anymore.
W202's were built like tanks. I should have kept mine. Regrets, regrets.
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I wish I could agree but I cannot. My W202 was a nightmare and was a huge money pit for me. Everything that could of broke did break. Never a break down but it seems like in only 3 years of ownership and nearly $6,000 later it was not worth it anymore. I found it to be out of over 15 MB cars owned the only one I hated.
 
Mike Walker said:
Just goes to show how different ones experience can be. My E320 estate was full of rust and was only 15 years old when I got rid of it. The drivers side rear adjacent to the washer bottle had a hole in the floor I could put my hand through.
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That is awful to hear! My 2002 E320 had over 160,000 miles when I sold mine and no rust at all. I made sure to wash mine all the time so I think that helped as well.
 
Its proabably arguable that engineering has improved, and components on modern cars are now more closely failing just as they reach their inteded design life - The parts are optimised!

Still, I tend to find a sense of pleasure driving something with higher miles than the point at which newer contemporaries would be considered 'scrap' !
 
My W210 E220 CDI has just passed 209,000 miles. The interior doesn't tell the tale of a 16 year old car and the car still runs very well. The front wings though... They're a different story. :D
 
C280 Sport said:
My 2002 E320 had over 160,000 miles when I sold mine and no rust at all. I made sure to wash mine all the time so I think that helped as well.
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When your Mercedes starts to rust at only 4 years old, it has nothing to do with how often it's washed. The one's that rust prematurely have poor paint prep or some other reason for the rust, they are going to rust no matter how you look after them.

Russ
 
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