You Carfaxed it yet? (yes, I know, Carfax isn't a catchall, but it does periodically show rollbacks and accidents that you wouldn't otherwise know about) I have an account if you have the VIN.
Price is very very good, btw, presuming all is well. I looked at a 93 with 89k miles and the dealer wanted $8500 (later dropped it to $8k, sold it, I think, for around $7k). It was in clean condition, had a few scratches inside and out.
Buy Buy Buy, you will never regret that power on control, i know i miss it every time i drive my m103. I ran Mobil 1 in my 400E and it seemed to like it, I got 26mpg at 80mph, i had royal purple in the rear end too, it was like greased light'nin.
I have a wholesale connection for parts, and I had to replace the harness on my 400E, If you want to replace it let me know how much you might have to pay and I could probably get it for a much better price for you. I believe i paid 1/3 of dealer price.
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'00 German Sheperd ("Hans")
'89 300 TE 117k
'92 400E (killed in action)
'68 280 SE/8 (High School Sweetheart)
'95 E320 (mother's)
'60 190D (dad's new project)
'05 A6 Allroad 2.7t (dad's ride)
'84 190E (sold)
'90 300CE (brother's)
First Benz, thanks for the 411 on the wiring harness. This one seems to be fine, but I guess you never know. I was supposed to seal the deal today, but the guy is opening a new restaurant in SF, and something came up, so I have to wait a day or so. So what weight of Mobil 1 did you run in yours? Do you recommend changing the rear end fluid too?
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1984 300D 225,000 miles (hit and totaled by bad driver)
1987 300E 209,000 miles (donated to worthy cause, still going)
1988 300E 205,000 miles (still a daily driver)
1998 E320 70,000 miles (Obsidian, 17' E500 rims)
1990 300CE 88,000 miles (Silver/ black int)
Now IF this was my car! Unless this guy has records on the fluid changes "I" would do them all that way I would have a clean start point on my maintaince. But thats just me![:0][:0][:0]Congrats on your choice![;)]Hope the deal goes through! You know pics will be in order!![:D][:D]
Smokie
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2001 C Class 16 in. Rims
KYB Struts and shocks
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JVC EXAD Mp3 player
JVC EXAD GPS
Wald Front Spoiler
Bigred 99 F250 Powerstroke
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Assorted Bling
First Benz, thanks for the 411 on the wiring harness. This one seems to be fine, but I guess you never know. I was supposed to seal the deal today, but the guy is opening a new restaurant in SF, and something came up, so I have to wait a day or so. So what weight of Mobil 1 did you run in yours? Do you recommend changing the rear end fluid too?
I ran 15-50 in the hot summer and 10-40 in the winter... I changed the rear end fluid just to make sure it was fresh, wasn't expensive, so what the heck, always nice to know your fluids are clean.
If you feel like doing any mods, removing the center resonator and replacing the rear muffler with a magnaflow or flowmaster is the sweetest sound in the world with the m119 V8 and it is not offensive or annoying like putting cherrybombs on a camaro. Smooth and throaty power chords!
Today I went to close the deal on this 400E. I get there and the guy has just taken it out of the garage for the first time since I drove it over a week ago. It idled rough, and the check engine light came on. I let it warm up, took it for a spin. Although the idle smoothed out some, it did not run like it did last week, and the CEL stayed on. Wouldn't this be emmissions-related? He's only had the car since August, and it passed smog fine then. I poked around under the hood checking for bad wiring harness, couldn't really find any flaking wires. Car seems to be missing, like a slight shudder when it revs up. The last record I can find show a MBZ B service at 70,000miles. It has 94K now. They put in new plugs then, but no record of caps and rotors.
Smokie, Firstbenz, what do you think? Something simple, or a problem to stay away from? I could probably offer low, say $5k or so and get it. By the way, he paid $7800 for it last August. and has only put 4000 miles on it.
Ok ! Sounds like you might have the same problem I had! I changed both dist caps and rotors treated it to a new set of plugs ! Problem solved! Not saying for sure thats whats wrong with the car! but if it has the orig caps and rotors it could be!!!A DIY job to replace![:(!][:(!]Mine had the CEL come on for the owner the day he sold it to me ! Brought it home disconnected the bat term for about 10 min and it killed the light! Make sure if you do that you have the radio code if its got the MB radio![:0]But if you got that car with that milage on it for $5700 you stole it! I always fig when buying a used car no matter how good things look budget at least $500 for the small things that might have to be done![:0][:0] And again congrats on yer new ride![;)][;)]If like most E420 drivers gonna be a long hard time gettin that grin off yer kisser!!![:D][:D][:D]
Quote:I get there and the guy has just taken it out of the garage for the first time since I drove it over a week ago. It idled rough, and the check engine light came on!!
Exactly the same story as mine! Guy was gone a week, fired it up to sell it, that day CEL on!!
i agree that there are many possibilities, and you should have someone scan the error code to see what's up. bear in mind that this engine has two caps and two rotors, so even "just a tune-up" can get quite expensive (like around $1000 unless you DIY it).
my 400E had a problem with rough idle followed by stalling that came and went about twice a year and lasted for 3-4 days each time. it was finally diagnosed as a faulty stoplight switch. i thought that was odd, but it hasn't stalled since the part was replaced about 2 years ago...
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