Thought I'd better introduce myself... just bought a 1997 C250 (W202). It's a fairly basic manual "esprit" estate with 167000 on the clock. Rusty arches, and due a service, but seems solid and goes well. I love it.
Weirdly I saw it for sale outside a local repair garage (Automerc), got a good feeling, had a quick look, and then later discovered it had previously belonged to a friend/colleague - he had passed it on to them after giving up on a repair, they fixed it and then used it as their runabout for a few years. He remembers it as a hard-to-trace fuel line issue, they said they put a secondhand gearbox in it... I suspect they are right but in any case they sorted it.
Anyway, knowing a good part of its history I decided to go for it (after managing to knock £250 off the asking price).
Here it is. I like the colour. And the wheels.
Took the family to the seaside in it today - a hundred odd miles and it behaved really well. Smokes a bit if you boot it but pulls, rides and stops well and everything seems to work.
Bound to have a few questions over the coming days/weeks/months, but that'll do for now. Cheers all!
Weirdly I saw it for sale outside a local repair garage (Automerc), got a good feeling, had a quick look, and then later discovered it had previously belonged to a friend/colleague - he had passed it on to them after giving up on a repair, they fixed it and then used it as their runabout for a few years. He remembers it as a hard-to-trace fuel line issue, they said they put a secondhand gearbox in it... I suspect they are right but in any case they sorted it.
Anyway, knowing a good part of its history I decided to go for it (after managing to knock £250 off the asking price).
Here it is. I like the colour. And the wheels.
Took the family to the seaside in it today - a hundred odd miles and it behaved really well. Smokes a bit if you boot it but pulls, rides and stops well and everything seems to work.
Bound to have a few questions over the coming days/weeks/months, but that'll do for now. Cheers all!
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