Rich people can do that :D

@Von_Nightmare_ Luciferian Stop watching then. Plenty of other car KZfaqrs out there for you.

Lol I kind of like it because then we get told what was wrong and that tells us what to look for when purchasing 🤣🤣

Well with a flip if you can make money without doing anything . Your good . He said he could so ...

No he knew the likely major problems. You can tell he has a ton of experience guessing those things on trade in cars, since he's an experienced salesman. He can afford to be fearless. Hoovie knew he couldn't lose much on this one and might even make a profit, regardless.

Agreed!

Fully agree! My all time favorite car!

Yes, fix this car and then pawn it off to the next sucker - I mean buyer. Oops!!! lol Scotty Kilmer is right about MB's! :)

Totally, so worth it. I was even disappointed that the video wasn't at least 30 minutes. FIX IT, HOOVIE!

absolutely, i love these mercs

SlyMagpie I just bought and sold a 240d, slow as molasses

@@matthewking5323 Reliable though, you don't buy them to go quick. It's like buying a smart car and expecting loads of storage space.

Sure

I got a 2001 E320 for 900$, the car was kept by a old woman too

My homegirl had one back in the day with a 5 speed. It was slow but it ran great

As it should be. But the US still thinks their way higher death rate in accidents and more percental and absolute accidents have nothing to do with it. So sad! xD

Nicolas Manger So move to Europe! Problem solved.

@@DS-wo8wr I live in Europe. I worked in the US for a few years and i'm glad to be Back in Switzerland. Health Care, Car Inspections, near german Autobahn and more Money :D The USA is a lovley country, but sometimes its a bit in ears.

Many states in the US require yearly inspections, though it should be every one. Here in MD you only gave to get it inspected when you register it.

Unless you bribe em. Works exceptionally easy in uk , somehow easier than lithuania lol

Most Mercedes mechanics already have a yacht, so it doesn't matter if you catch them or not actually surfing on the interet. :))))

From what the Car Talk guys had said many times, auto mechanics have boat payments, so it fits.

T.M. D.R. My 04 pathfinder: new dizzy $750. Plugs and leads $550. The merc sounds cheap for that.

Are you sure you have an '04 Pathfinder ? The 3.5 V6 and 5.6 V8 engines have coil packs .. Maybe you have an Xterra with the 3.3 V6 ; that has a distributor

Lmao!

yep he should watch his own stuff now and then

3700 dollars to fix it. No longer the cheapest...

I brought the cheapest amg wagon for only 20000

@@idiotstupid5904 to be fair if he listened to himself he wouldn't have any content to share which would in turn cost him more money.

If you don't have the money to pay for the car, you don't have the money to pay for the repair.

Bullshit. At least if you stick with the diesel engines. SUPER cheap parts here in Europe, incomparable to today´s cars. Oh.. ? You want power ? Swap the diesel pump elements to 6,5 or 7mm and you´re looking at 250 to 400 HP. Fair enough ? You Americans are fooled by garages beyond comprehension.

@@yves2348 shit diesel pump

Ve bosch pump better!!

unless you are in europe

mrhvids - and some people think he’s rich....

A car where he actually makes a profit after fixing it up? That's the real reason he's not sure whether to do it, it's unusual territory for him!

@@montestu5502 He is, or at least will be very rich in the future. Look up his dad.

@@rkan2 That's right. And he makes very good money from these videos.

They might be "worth" that, if you can find a sucker to buy one.

Are you born in 1987 and have a negative net worth?

Bruh i had my bank account closed cause i had such negative money. No joke i wanted to buy a 600 car and i come to find out i dont have a bank account no more.

Me: get a job ya punk! You: ? Me: lulz jk

Wow, in the US one can exist without a bank account? That’s actually quite neat! Here you HAVE to have a bank account to get paid.

@Kurt Lamprecht Life after Harvey has been really tough i was tryna chuckle about the situation, recently started a gofundme after realizing i cant even afford a can of beans let alone a $600 car. You can go ahead and read up about my journey to rock bottom if you'd like. www.gofundme.com/f/zw3p3r-life&rcid=r01-156338217826-0537a888e56b4db5&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_m

😂😂😂😂😂feel you maine...

you've been with diagnosed with the benz bug. there is no cure.

Same😩

@@noemmelkonyan8186 And I'll probably fall in love again.

Very good advice. Most problems on this vintage Mercs can be repaired with a bit of care and intelligence without swapping out major parts. Problems are usually caused by lack of proper maintenance, things not being lubed or flushed through etc. Check out Mercedes Source. Kent is a mine of information for Mercedes, and his KZfaq channel has loads of information and tutorial videos to help you repair these old Mercs yourself. This car is definitely worth investing a little love into it.

My W140 v8 transmission used to shift really hard, I ended up changing the fluid and filter and it still shifted hard. I then realized there was a vacuum line completely disconnected, so I took a zip tie and put it back on and it shifts like a dream now.

Ditch the shitty Mercedes transmission. All it’s gonna do is go out again in 5,000 miles, no point in wasting your money on a garbage one.

@@loganklein366 what makes you an expert to make that statement. If you take care of them they last. if you dont take care of them like you said it will crap out but if you maintain them it wont.

@@matthewgodwin3050 I think that is great advice and a lot of it is run on vacuum Needs to have the transmission flushed and changed fluid and filter. and go from there, Dont take it down and send it to a shop for overhaul. Look for a used on at a salvage yard also if need be.

Hurdur it funny cuz capitol letterz

I saw a 2jz gwagon swaped there in the uae the thing is awesome

*why not?*

@@thelastmemphian he never said it was a "AMG" G wagon there's other options

@@thelastmemphian So it would run! And 15 years later still run smoothly!

pangtsr yeah, most of the stuff he could do himself and save himself the book rate. I would compare it as the BMW of the same vintage. I have an e30 and e34 540, and some people call them bust my wallet, and are both very reliable and easy to work on. Plus great community support.

LOL and it didnt fix the prob imagine that

Yep my kinda guy

He already had the wheels. Solving the misfire will take a while.

I take it the wheels were pretty old, so no harm in replacing them anyway, fixing the problem wasn't really the priority there, but would have been nice if it did.

These posts are getting old

I had an 89 300E and had fixed most of it's problems. THEN a young woman with NO money for insurance but enough for a cell phone rear ended me and totaled it.

My W204 and W205 C-classes still had it too.

Yr 2000 E55 can raise up too, about the only thing Mercedes did right building the car

Root Edge Gilmour - Worth mention that petrol versions are rarely seen due to taxes and fuel costs. ;-)

@@crpth1 true, this country is a joke... newer cars that make less polution pay more taxes than old cars

It´s a W124. And yes it´s bulletproof. :)

yes

i was the 100th like

I just saw a 2018 G63 AMG, a 2017 G63 AMG, and a GLE 63s AMG

Rideshare Revolution is definitely love to see that that’s my dream car if I had the money I’d even do that but watching this guy I’ll rethink my options

So should do that!!!!

programmer437 ♥️

Any idea what they are?

Que bueno encontrar un compatriota que ve los videos. Pensé que era el único.

I would personally flush all the fluids and make sure everything is full. That car also should have a nice long road test at high speeds to clean it out. It's like an Olympic athlete that had an extended time away from the sport. The best thing is to go all out and clean out all the crap.

@@fabriziojuliancaldara3950 jajajaj somos mas de los que te esperarias!

@@dhennessey1970 i think the same as you man!

@Fran Ruiz Brasileiros assistem Hoovie tambem!

Should have put the evo 2's on it. They are the best wheel for 500e

absolutely transformed the look, the porsche rims or the aero ii monoblocks are even better

Exactly what I thought. It went from "some high school kid's hoopty", to respectable and almost sleek looking. I generally don't like customization on cars that are "premium" brands anyway. But that's just a matter of taste I suppose.

I didn’t mind the aftermarkets on before but definitely an upgrade to go back to Mercedes wheels

@@tylernewton7217 Agree it's a matter of taste, personally i like the look of those wheels on old German sport/lux saloons but then again that's because i had an E23 on 5-spokes back when it was just an old expensive to fix BMW & i loved them & the car...

Brandon Clark back when it was new I was still in university and my accounting professor had one of those. With a 250d badge and a tow hook :)

@@VolkerHett that is taking the sleeper aspect to an entirely different level

yeah a lot bs in other repairs too lol

steven v well what do you expect for an old German car! It will turn into one big money pit.....

That vintage _WERE_ world-class reliable cars. After about 1999, it all went to crap (Chrysler era, etc.).

@@alliejr That's true.

Pre 99... '90 Mazda B2600i 4x4 loved and driven to 350+k and my current daily '97 Toyota 4runner limited with 378k 😂

Modern ones are still reliable. The difference is than in 1985, every Mercedes was reliable, whereas now, some of them, like the S and E Class, are reliable and are still popular hotel cars and taxis in Europe, but others, like the CLA and GLE are crap, because the people who buy them don't have any standards and just want a badge.

@@jordanbell4420 And back in the day they were more simple and more well-built so there were not so much that could go wrong and would be easier and cheaper to fix them...these days is a nonsense amount of electric crap that can cause a lot of troubles (some catastrophic) and the environmental regulations are leading to critical failures mainly with the particles filters that are crazily expensive to replace and are causing catastrophic fires all over. I doubt any Mercedes-Benz from after the 1990s will manage to last 30 or 40 years of ownership and become classics, they just don't last. To me that says a lot. But that's not just on Mercedes-Benz, it's on every car manufacturer.

But the new buyer has a simple mathematical equation on costs. They offset the depreciation against any otherwise incalculable out-of-warranty repairs costs. Plus, their ownership is stress-free and they get the pleasure of owning a new car. New and secondhand both have some merits and you are fortunate if you have the choice, but if you do, it’s a much less stressful experience paying the depreciation than paying the mechanic.

Lease new, buy used is true as always.. unless you swim in money.

@@sakariaskarlsson634 You only lease new if you can’t afford to buy new. You’ll be paying the depreciation anyway but. with a lease car you have to pay the brokers fee and borrowing costs on top because you can’t finance it yourself. Once it’s out of warranty it moves on to the secondhand market where the potentially astronomical out-of-warranty costs become a permanent anxiety for the new owner. No cheap way of doing it either way. There are opportunities for skilled individuals to capitalise and repair these worn out high end vehicles, but for everyone else it’s best to stay well away.

Truly Rich people wouldn’t lease

another thing to mention is that the 500e is currently appreciating due to increasing demand again

Yeah, MB has never learned to make wiring harnesses. How many years have they been at it? Conclusion = crappy cars and they don't care because stupid people buy them.

@@wholeNwon it was euro law rule to use that type of wire

@@raycroal And all those very smart European chemists didn't know? Didn't care more like it. Once they have your money.... I had 2 new MBs....NEVER again.

@@wholeNwon they went back to non bio-degradable in 95,it was an ettempt to help the environment they didn't expect them to degrade until they were buried ,i wouldn't buy a 92-95 and if i bought one brand new i would be pissed no end.it is a shame cause some of their cars are very sturdy

@@wholeNwon Thats why i got a 300D problem solved lol

i agree My 94 e320 coupe is still going strong with same engine trans and even headgasket and over 600K miles hell i dont even change the oil all that often but i dont let the oil go too long

what brand do they use now? just curious

Your "old" Mercedes will surpass time.

Whereas I am fairly convinced that the engine and gearbox on my E63 are made of chocolate :-(

MY 1990 560 SEC IS INCREDIBLE!!,!,! Yes you need to take care of them!!!,!, I’m Taking That Ride to the Grave!!!,!,!,!

Of course he will, he was a car dealer after all!

The '94 Celica is a lovely car (though Scotty's one is actually a bit rough). Mine's a little nicer: www.colin99.co.uk/mycar-2018.jpg

I'm so sick of hearing Scotty go on about his (admitted) oil-burning Celica.

NorthernChev Crown Vic > Celica

Justin Phillips and don’t forget endless money pits 😂😂

Scotty Kilmer ìs a rusted bolt. :)))

samcrac: We can fix this with some thick duct tape and a transmission swap from a ford fiesta! Rich Rebuilds: I don’t have time for this. I want to remind you this is not my full time job. Awww... ok. It is now. Let’s rip it all out and load up some tesla power packs. Anyone see my shoes?

extraordinary comment

Mr. Regular : I need to poop and educate you about English Literature.

Wizard: 🤑🤑

Chris fix: "dude, look on my channel, reduce that 6500$ on 1500$ top"

Till this day I don't understand that

I never have trouble hearing him

We've been asking for that for while....

You talk very loud,, I think you're deaf.

so you want to hear all the: "LS doesnt need dry sump" "those factory Porsche coolant lines are fine for track use" "Im sure it wont caught on fire, you can do recall later, power steering fluid is barely flammable" "maybach actually recommends super glue for maintenance" "we could change oil, or replace whole thing, I recommend the latter"

Although I will admit,, it took me 3 days to do the wiring harness. :)

@@jucklowe 3 days to do one on a CE? What problems were you running into? I can do one in about an hour. But agreed, these are awesome cars. I definitely do not recommend for people to buy them and expect them to be cheap to run, they're old cars and even "good" owners neglect maintenance. I've totally redone the suspension on three of them, always makes the car so much better.

Already suspect I know the answer to this, but if I don’t turn a wrench, how bad would annual maintenance costs be on an ‘86 190E Cosworth?

@@stephen3164 I typically recommend these cars as DIY if you want to own. They're not especially hard to work on but labor can bite your ass. Buy the best example you can if you want to own one.

@@stephen3164 If you can afford a good 190E Cosworth,, you're looking at $30k,,, so you can probably afford to pay someone else to maintain it. And those cars are gonna increase massively in the next few years IMO,, I honestly think they're gonna leave the 500E's in the dust.

What year was the 300E?

@@blitz0138 I think it was an 86

He understands exactly what he has, but even a rare car has a monetary value and if you are not emotionally attached to a particular car it often makes more sense to sell it and buy a better one. The old adage of "Always buy the best car you can afford" makes a LOT of sense if you have to pay someone else to do your restoration work.

or as they say in Aladdin (the 1992 one, not the reboot) a Diamond in the Rough.

He’s in a lambo and a bentley these days. The old Benz fan Hoovie is long gone. Sell out status now or something because that’s a LEGEND.

@Boss Günter 6500 for what they can see NOW, not what ever else may be hiding that needs fixing, I mean what if they take the cam covers off to change the gaskets and the cams are worn for instance? You can't tell what you'll need to spend, which is why it's usually better to just start with a known good car and let someone else have had the expense of restoring it.

exactly, and a lot of those repairs can be done for cheap if he put a little more thought into it, not every single thing has to be replaced all the time

@@acm1781 your spot on, very expensive junk. I laugh when I see one. Out of warranty, out of luck.

@@acm1781 w124s are junk eh? Coming from a person who comes from the land of such dooseys as Chrysler and GM products. Not too bright are ya

You must be referring to the post early 90's models that were built by the accountants instead of the engineers. Look at all the cars today, emphasis is on being "green" and technology. There isn't even much emphasis on mpg any more like there used to be in the early part of 2000. I hear nothing about reliability. I'm at 460k miles on my original 1990 w201. Show me something that was built today that's still on the road in 30 years.

@@lsmalley Agreed, too much emphasis on making money over making quality cars that last. I guess it makes no sense to though, if everyone bought one car and it lasted them their lifetime, all the manufacturers would be out of a job... Saying that, Volvo are still doing good IMO, at least as far up as '06/'07ish not sure on the newer stuff (The DRIVe Ford engine was wank. but i believe they've brought the D5 back again so maybe hope yet). '06 S80 D5 SE Lux here just about to roll over a mere 200k, cost me a shade under £700 and I've put tyres, shocks, clutch master and steering rack on it. Drives like a car with under 100k, comfy and plenty of torque, doubt i have £1k in it and i fully expect to see it over 500k with basic care and maintenance. Speaking of which, cambelt is due before next summer. Still original water pump...

But he is pussy

10 years ago my father bought a 1987 300E for peanuts just because he needed cheap transportation, he still drives it, thinks it's the best car he has ever had and the only major failures has been the water pump and the rear diff (which probably had been running withouth enough oil in it because they shouldn't fail like this one did). Heck, people that bought brand new cars 10 years ago and still drives them probably have had more trouble. I agree that a Mercedes is far from bulletproof, but on the other hand, it seems that americans for some reason think that every Mercedes is built like a spaceship and impossible to repair, even if it's a 240D from the 70s. Of all the brands I have been working on, only my 1985 Nissan Pickup has been more pleasant working on than Mercedes, but that is such a simple built truck built to last in developing regions that they really shouldn't be compared......

A W124 is probably the best built car from the era....just buy a good one and not a dump.

Jetronic CIS-E injection, vacuum operated automatic transmission, multi-link inboard front suspension, power everything, vacuum actuated automatic climate control - there is nothing simple about the W124.

EVOCATEUR $11,100!

I’ll give u 11,200!

I'll bid 11,300, I'm a mod at benz universe

Hoovie, take the best offer. You'll be making money on this one. Once in awhile we want to see you come out ahead.

Okay okay $11,450 cash AND I'll drive it to Kansas after it's all fixed and let you make me an offer on it!

I agree, I replaced the U.S. spec headlights with Euro ones on my 190E project. Soo much better

Really? I never understood why americans hate their lights because I actually like the USDM lights. It makes the car look classy. I guess you guys just do it to be different

@@MiGujack3 In my opinion it looks like a cheap aftermarket solution. Because the design looks really good after 35 years but the headlights ruin it for me.

And the episode after that, Hoovie buys a ufo after the area 51 raid, ???, profit?

Younes Zreika 😭😭😭

buys boeing 737 max and fix it

Henry Dillard the wizard having to wait on parts from mars.

yea sell it to alex, the last one he bought was was a pos

Jaroslav Tatousek he doesn’t like good Mercedes

I mean I would rather a New Honda Civic than a Mercedes cheaper and will last longer.

@@kingkeating5230 False a W124 will outlast any Honda.

Colm Farrel imagine being that delusional

Wrong

@@neale.kaufman5168 Yeah of course honda wil outlast anything, and stand behind their cars like nobody else! That is obviously why there are so many happy owners of new high-performance honda civics who have to drain the gasoline from the crankcase of their brand new 1.5l turbocharged rocketsled every 500-1000 miles just to keep it from overflowing and bursting into flames. But at least it's fun to drive... Well OK it's slower than a $500 diesel volkswagen from 1998 with a $50 eBay stage 1 ecu tune. With 250,000 miles showing on an odometer that has been broken since a year that contained two zeros, but the civic does have a big red "R" on the back so it's obviously a sports car. And of course it's comfortable, with that wonderful ever-present scent of gasoline wafting into the cabin cutting down on the little pine tree bill and not increasing the oner's family's cancer risk AT ALL. Oh yeh and since Honda's engineering response was to reprogram the ECU so that the A/C compressor stays on at full capacity at all times to make the engine run hotter so there will be less unburned fuel making it's way into the lubricating oil through blowby there is literally no interior heating in the winter. Which of course did nothing to fix the problem for every owner I have heard from, and every owner that signed the NHTSA petition asking for a recall, but honda's brilliant engineers said before they roled out a "fix" as well as after that oil dilution with unleaded gasoline to the tune of as much as a quart or in some cases two plus every couple hundred miles is indeed NORMAL and apparently will not negatively impact the service life of the engine one bit, and so they see zero reason to act further. That;s the new civic typeR 1.5l turbo that I'm referring to - if you don't believe me go to the NHTSA's advisory site or carcomplaints.org. Versus the mercedes w124, a platform which was so thoroughly over-engineered that there are dozens if not hundreds of examples still on the road today with well over a million miles on the original engine and transmission, some (including many of the so-called "north african taxicab" variety) with more than double that which are still trusted daily all over the world by their owners as their means to make a living, hundreds in the USA with north of 700,000 miles and still going strong - a german suburban main battle tank with industrial reliability which even the BBC top gear crew was unable to kill without driving into water deeper than the car's roof. Oh wait, that's right, they tried that too - they even let the poor old merc float, then sink, with the key still in the run position. They even left it soaking for an hour or two after the electronics stopped randomly rolling windows up and down and flashing headlights and the like. Proeeding then to tow it out and let it drip dry for an hour or two then replaced the battery. Of course the poor thing would not turn over, despite the elecronics coming immediately back to life (for the most part) there wasn't even a hint of movement when trying the starter. After they pulled the plugs and purged the hydrolocked engine's cylinders of water through the spark plug holes (using the still working starter to do so) they replaced the oil for good measure and put the plugs back where they belonged and it fired back up and drove away under it's own power. That was the final attempt to kill it except for running it over with an american-style monster truck, which also failed to stop it from moving, though made it a bit clumsy to navigate around a mallwart parking lot. And your money is on Honda, eh?

Hoovie better add Euro spec. Headlights to the Wizards list😎

Idk what the fuck that means but okay

I drive a 1986 Mercedes 300e US spec and the headlights are just fine pal.

probably has no idea he could have done that

@@chiefdenis and he was saying things like he didnt know mercedes very well the hood is a good clue of that

@@thomasrose6962 i actually thought he was a mercedes guy since he seems to love and had owned a few in the past. To be fair though i'm a bit biased to the w124, they're some of my favourite cars ever, it's a bit annoying to see him ignorant of potentially cheap repairs to faults that come up in an old merc, which are forever solved when fixed

@@chiefdenis At least he's giving it a chance, ignorance aside. So many people make snap judgements about MBZ without ANY actual knowledge.

@@Alvan81 Facts

Wa t yeah mostly maintenance and wearable parts i guess it’s mostly not serious

More like missed maintenance :)

Transmission rebuild?!

@@newsgetsold If you don't change oil in a gearbox that's what happens nothing to do with reliability.

@@colmfarrel4742 It's something that's wrong, and maybe they did change the oil. How would you know?

Tired of Tyler's money you mean? Doubt it.

He's not a big fan of German cars

AudioMobil However in Germany you don’t have the American import Mercedes.

Some benz models are bullet proof. Others are junk.

@@ajh4294 Which is exactly why he SAID W124 and not all.

Typically it's the electronic throttle bodies that need to be rebuilt other than that pretty good cars. I've had a 91 300CE, 91 300TE 4Matic, and a 93 400E. Also a 91 R129 500SL, great car.

biogradeable wiring. 100k and all these issues. Yeah, okay-

Couldn't agree more