I drew one over to the dark (smokey) side

[DPinkston]

A friend of mine was shopping for a new car. We had talked alot about diesels, my conversion, and the greater mileage potential. He priced a few new cars/suvs with diesel offerings. In the end he decided he did not want to drop ten$ of thousand$ on a new car so he bought a 92 Mercedes 300D with the 5 cylinder turbo diesel for $3000. It has about 180k miles on it. Looks great and seems to run just fine. 30+ mpg too.

I don't know anything about the Mercedes diesels. Is there a good informative Mercedes website to go to? I fear that there is no Mercedes equivalent to TDR because most people who drop that kind of cash on a car aren't gonna do their own wrenching.

Danny

 

[JLEONARD]

Oh great... another diesel head in the world. . increasing the demand for #2 and driving up the price. :-laf

Way to go... . I love it!!

Last year I had a conversation with a local dieselhead who raved about the older Mercedes diesels. I couldn't get him to stop talking about them. He was trying to convince me to use one of those engines for a conversion.

Point being there are some enthusists out there. You just need to hook up with them.

 

[Gunhill]

A couple links that may be helpful.



http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/index.php3



http://www.mercedesforum.com/