Mercedes taxi's

[Dark0]

This is to put anyone at rest who is worried about the mileage on their Mercedes diesel engines.If you have ever been to Cyprus you would have noticed ,ALL taxi's are Mercedes.I recently saw a 270cdi which had covered nearly 900,000km (do your conversion calculation).
My point here being,stop wingeing about what you consider to be high miles and start enjoying your car. :bannana:

 

[troiscentmille]

+1 mine has just passed half a million Km with no seat or mat wear apparent , few stone chips perhaps and AC loses gas every 18months. (touch wood , fingers crossed etc etc)

 

[Meldrew2]

Our local taxi firm acqiured a K reg Ford Orion diesel with 650,000 miles when they took over another firm about 10 years ago.

They sold it a couple of years later, when it had covered just over 800,000 miles. Apparently it's still going strong.

Apparrently one reason that taxis cover such immense mileages is that the engine oil never gets cold.....

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[gina2201]

I agree, every other car out there is a Merc! If I live there I wouldn't own one as they are too common!

Someone we know does airport runs between Paphos and Larnaca and has racked over a million miles on one car,an old Merc, not sure what it is but he must look after it, not much rust out there....!

 

[rf065]

This is to put anyone at rest who is worried about the mileage on their Mercedes diesel engines.If you have ever been to Cyprus you would have noticed ,ALL taxi's are Mercedes.I recently saw a 270cdi which had covered nearly 900,000km (do you conversion calculation).
My point here being,stop wingeing about what you consider to be high miles and start enjoying your car. :bannana:

How many cold starts do they have to do at minus 18C like it was in Scotland the other morning? They probably never see a cold start in their climate.

Russ

 

[wallingd]

"Taxi's"?

 

[popuptoaster]

My dad dont even consider selling his cabs untill they hit 300,000, some of em are falling to bits by then (renault espace, citroen BX) some of em are still running but losing peripheral functions (Fiat Multipla, ford scorpio) and some just keep going untill he gets bored and decides he needs something newer (volkswagen T5 minibus, Rover 600!!!) the rover was retired at 500,000 when the ECu died and a new one was more than the car was worth, he still has the VW, he wont buy new mercs cos they are not built as well as the old ones and cost to much, there is only one mercedes cab (vito's dont count) in our area, to many other better choices for cabbing he reckons, its cost per mile that matters, not purchase price, he's looking at downsizing to a subaru forrester at the mo but i dont think he'll be happy with the small interior.

 

[Dark0]

How many cold starts do they have to do at minus 18C like it was in Scotland the other morning? They probably never see a cold start in their climate.

Russ

Point taken with cold starts,but how many start stops does a busy taxi get through in a lifetime compared to a private owned car ?

 

[popuptoaster]

Point taken with cold starts,but how many start stops does a busy taxi get through in a lifetime compared to a private owned car ?

thats easily balanced by the cab only ever doing one cold start a day, the engine wont have time to cool down between starts at any other time, while a commuters car will have at least two a day, which is not good for any part of the vehicle, commercial vehicles of all types will usually do loads more miles than private cars before dying because they do the milage faster, its age and lack of care that knackers cars not milage.

 

[dire straits]

hig mileage

I used to drive a W124 E250TD in Norway, the car did 900,000km(565,000mls) before the rear shocks needed replacement. Engine kept going for years thereafter unntill another smart driver decided to ignore the red oil light at about 1,3mil.

Just fantastic

 

[spock500]

I wonder if there are any records to show if engine life is prolonged using a block heater such as Kenlow.

 

[spock500]

Going off topic a tad unless your a taxie driver in Norway

http://www.kenlowe.com/pre-heaters/cars/whatwill.html#no5


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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]LONGER ENGINE LIFE
Starting with a cold engine accounts for up to 80% of engine wear owing to unburnt fuel droplets washing oil from the cylinder walls. The life of auxiliaries, such as starter motor, exhaust, and battery, are all significantly extended by starting a HOT engine easily. Using the Kenlowe engine pre-heater means the starter motor is not called on to crank the engine over and over even on the coldest day, in addition condensation in the exhaust system is significantly reduced. Large fleet operators running their vehicles 24 hours a day (3 shifts) have found for many years that avoiding cold starts extends the engine life to a minimum of 1,000,000 miles and often as much as 1,500,000 miles with only routine servicing, fully illustrating how much harm is done to your engine by starting and running cold. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]With the M.O.T. test requiring replacement at anything from £350 to £1,000 cold starting can prove costly!"[/FONT]

 

[popuptoaster]

Block heaters are a good idea if it gets really cold and you need them to get it to start at all or you like getting in a warm and toasty car, but unless you got really cheap electricity i think you'll spend more money keeping your engine warm for 1000,000 miles worth of time than you would do buying it a new engine at 500,000.

 

[spock500]

It says around 10p to heat a 2ltr engine which is not bad.

I had to replace a cat on my Pug last year even though the exhaust itself was fine, £300 for a really small section of the pipe

I wonder if this could be down to cold emission start up being a diesel?

 

[c200Kompressor]

Hello! On Dec 2008 my father gave to the Nissan dealership a Bluebird (from 1990) with 1 850 000 km´s! Engine never open. No extras on repairs. Last i drove the car it went to 180 km/h...

 

[popuptoaster]

It says around 10p to heat a 2ltr engine which is not bad.

I had to replace a cat on my Pug last year even though the exhaust itself was fine, £300 for a really small section of the pipe

I wonder if this could be down to cold emission start up being a diesel?

ok i guess if you pay 10p a night for say 10 years (thats pretty quick for a million miles) you could be looking at £3600 odd quid, providing energy prices dont go up i spose its not bad, but i think it could still work out cheaper if you do less than 100,000 a year and increase the years you have to heat you engine to just have you engine rebuilt when it wears out, i can buy everything i need to build a whole new 2.8 twin cam straight 6 (including the block and head) from Mercedes for around 4 grand, so having the original one machined and rebuilt is gonna be even less than that, and you cant say you may not be able to get the parts, Mercedes are still keeping spares for all their cars from the 50's onwards.