You can find them for pretty cheap here in the USA although this one was the cheapest I’ve been able to buy. Crazy they sell for that much in Germany. You’d think they have more of them still around than here.

MrPDO77 gerade die 300er. Traurig für uns....

@@bokosdieselgarage It's because in germany they know deep down that these are ultra reliable vehicles that cannot be produced anymore. New cars suck with all their electronic bullshit computers that die and force you to spend another 20 grand for another car every few years. Not good for the environment at all producing another whole car instead of replacing a bit of rubber or a bit of metal in repairs.

Yeah I don’t think I’ll find another one for that price.

I have a couple others that need a full restoration too, just got lucky with this one I think.

@@bokosdieselgarage that's good. Get them all!

I haven’t tested the glow plugs yet but it starts pretty quick, especially for winter. Would be nice if that fixes the lights though! I’ll check it out. Happy New Year!

Thanks for the support

Thanks, you might be right on that. I’ll have to drive it a bit more to find out. But it seems like the transmission doesn’t want to upshift past 2nd gear so I’ll have to do some work on it first. Might be a vacuum leak.

Do an update on this one Boris when you figure it all out , could very well be electrical with the trans looking at the aftermarket gage and other stuff added with push button start , the glow plugs clearly cycled with that kind of voltage drop but you had no light on the dash so there was obviously electrical issues to go to that length with push button start etc , Love the diesel and hot shot videos

Yes, a lot of these were used as taxis all over the world.

I believe Mercedes Source here in the US still sells the vacuum pump rebuild kits.

@@bokosdieselgarage Unfortunately, I did not look for them anymore, but neither the pumps nor the kits have them

I’m in eastern WA.

Well maintenance is really important on these and valve adjustments often get overlooked. But I have heard that they’re really hard to rebuild and the piston rings can wear out. Hopefully you have better luck if you get another one.

@@bokosdieselgarage Thanks for your reply. I'm hitting the thumbs up on it. but I'm not certain I will unless maybe it's an '85 Turbodiesel. But even those are hard to find with over 200K miles on them and still starting right up everytime while still never having been re-built. If it's one with a motor that has been re-built then I don't want it. And that's for the reasons that have been stated here. A high original mileage one, one that has actually lived up to its reputation, is one of my dream cars to add to my car collection and maybe consider having it be an alternate to daily driver. I still can't understand why piston rings can wear out SO prematurely while the rest of the motor doesn't unless it was due to one of the common engineering mistakes when it was re-built last. However, it does prevent me from having too many regrets about choosing a 2004 Jaguar XJ8 to my collection. but now I'm thinking of selling it , too just to make sure no major problems occur with repairs exceeding the car's value, while owning it. That's very much like what happened with my 300D Diesel, the greatness and superb reliability and running everything working good as new were only due to be temporary, or too good to last.

Usually you do for clear titled vehicles but not for salvage. Each State is different though.

That would be cool! Where are you located? I’m in eastern WA.

@@bokosdieselgarage I am currently overseas but coming back to western WA this April or so.

Ok, let me know when you’re back in the US.

Speedo goes to 80, car doesn't:) But it does run on kerosene/ used vegetable oil mix or at least mine does!

Yeah those hubcaps are usually on the 240D’s.

It ended up being $253 total including 3 extra days of storage.

@@bokosdieselgarage nice 👍

This was in Utah.