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Hello all,
I bought a 1992 300CE-24 at auction earlier this year. No rust, full history and 12 months MOT. I'd always wanted a w124, largely for their reputation for build quality and had previously owned a brilliant w123 which was faultless for years but eventually lost to rust.
First month or so was great, absolutely love the car. Then the window motor went, got that repaired, the. The blower, fixed that, then thought I'd get it serviced (6 months after the last one, apparently). The merc specialist basically said it was in a terrible state of repair and there was no way the MOT was genuine. I got a long, long list of things which were needing to be done and went home and went online and sourced them all from Germany. The garage's advise was to get shot of it as soon as I can. But I spent £450 - same price as the garage were getting the blower motor from MB for and bought everything which needed doing. Then a day after the full service it started getting very lumpy whilst stopped in traffic before breaking down. Garage couldn't work it out, thought they'd fixed it but it happened again.
My rationale is that this car is a brilliant brilliant car and just because the market doesn't value them doesn't mean they're not worth putting a few grand into. If it was a 993 or a 964 people would think nothing of it.
My wife however agrees with the garage.
I'd be very interested to hear opinions on whether I'm going to regret this, especially from current or past owners!
I bought a 1992 300CE-24 at auction earlier this year. No rust, full history and 12 months MOT. I'd always wanted a w124, largely for their reputation for build quality and had previously owned a brilliant w123 which was faultless for years but eventually lost to rust.
First month or so was great, absolutely love the car. Then the window motor went, got that repaired, the. The blower, fixed that, then thought I'd get it serviced (6 months after the last one, apparently). The merc specialist basically said it was in a terrible state of repair and there was no way the MOT was genuine. I got a long, long list of things which were needing to be done and went home and went online and sourced them all from Germany. The garage's advise was to get shot of it as soon as I can. But I spent £450 - same price as the garage were getting the blower motor from MB for and bought everything which needed doing. Then a day after the full service it started getting very lumpy whilst stopped in traffic before breaking down. Garage couldn't work it out, thought they'd fixed it but it happened again.
My rationale is that this car is a brilliant brilliant car and just because the market doesn't value them doesn't mean they're not worth putting a few grand into. If it was a 993 or a 964 people would think nothing of it.
My wife however agrees with the garage.
I'd be very interested to hear opinions on whether I'm going to regret this, especially from current or past owners!
tobinen said:
Yes, what is the issue - just the lumpy running?
Can't that that difficult to fix. I'd be questioning the ability of the so-called Merc specialist if they don't know what's wrong with it.
The lumpy running is due - we think - to the wiring loom being disturbed after the plugs were changed during the service.Can't that that difficult to fix. I'd be questioning the ability of the so-called Merc specialist if they don't know what's wrong with it.
The issues which were flagged at the service were pretty broad but the theme seemed to be that everything was worn out - bushes, engine mounts, springs, brake pipes, oil leaks, differential was starting to go.
I paid £1600 at auction and have spent the same again on new tyres, service, parts, and fitting the window motor and blower. I'm inclined to think it'd be better to continue and end up with a car I've spent 5 or 6 k on rather than sell this and spend 6k on a '
good one'
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