Who has never had a mechanical breakdown
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Fingers crossed, have been very lucky.
Most reliable car I have ever owned is my current Mark V Golf Tdi 4 Motion, 3 and a half years old and nothing has ever gone wrong with it, not even a light bulb !
ML270 was very reliable and current ML420 has had nothing go wrong either.
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Most reliable car I have ever owned is my current Mark V Golf Tdi 4 Motion, 3 and a half years old and nothing has ever gone wrong with it, not even a light bulb !
ML270 was very reliable and current ML420 has had nothing go wrong either.
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One night I was in Reading about 21miles away from home driving the C320 and the regulator was gone but the car made sure it got me home before it actually died, it started shuting down the head lamps, command system, all the errors on the car's computer started poping up, but the car got me home safely, that was at about 11pm.
Thats why I love mercs if that was a BMW or even an Audi it would of let me down and left me by the side of the road!
Thats why I love mercs if that was a BMW or even an Audi it would of let me down and left me by the side of the road!
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Parents had something similar on a bmw 3 series..
in 1983/84 we had a goldnr 318i saloon..
anyway, the car lights, heating, wipers, the works just started dying, going on and off on their own etc... then car died and never got us home, but i remember the excitement of watching the AA guy tow the car on the back of a truck
The only mechanical breakdown I have had over 35 years of Mercedes driving , with numerous different cars , probably totaling close to a million miles over the years , was failure of the ASD differential on my W124 300TE at 198,000 miles . A new differential was going to cost more than the car was worth , and I could not source a used one with ASD - a standard differential would not fit without also changing drive shafts as well - all in all too much trouble so I sold the car for spare parts .
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My Ford Scorpio 2.3 Ultima 1998 has never broken down. Apart from service items the only extra parts have been a lower wishbone joint about 6 years ago and a new cat last year. Not a single bulb has blown and it is running on the original exhaust. I have owned it for over ten years. Quite impressed by it really.
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I've had a few cars that have never given any trouble, and - it's probably not going to come as a surprise - they've all been Japanese. 1 Daihatsu, 1 Nissan (built in that famous suburb of Tokyo, Sunderland), 2 Mazdas, & 2 Subarus.
On the flip slide, I had a Toyota Supra that got through 2 head gaskets in 4 months. I must have been having a bad day when I bought that one.
German stuff has been patchy - I had a Audi coupe years ago that would break down at the drop of a hat - and even the C43 left me stranded on a roundabout when the crank position sensor decided to act up. So far the Golf hasn't embarrassed itself yet - touch wood - which is pretty good considering it's 10 years old and has 130K on the clock.
Of course, my true love is Italian cars, and going wrong is woven into the very fabric from which they are made. The boot release on the Barchetta decided to fall apart today, giving it an unblemished record of reliability that lasted 10 whole days. I'll have to tell FIAT, they may want to put out a press release..
Cheers,
Gaz
On the flip slide, I had a Toyota Supra that got through 2 head gaskets in 4 months. I must have been having a bad day when I bought that one
.German stuff has been patchy - I had a Audi coupe years ago that would break down at the drop of a hat - and even the C43 left me stranded on a roundabout when the crank position sensor decided to act up. So far the Golf hasn't embarrassed itself yet - touch wood - which is pretty good considering it's 10 years old and has 130K on the clock.
Of course, my true love is Italian cars, and going wrong is woven into the very fabric from which they are made. The boot release on the Barchetta decided to fall apart today, giving it an unblemished record of reliability that lasted 10 whole days. I'll have to tell FIAT, they may want to put out a press release..
Cheers,
Gaz
