wulbert
pfm Member
Ooft! Nice! Looks like it was milled from a solid block of stainless steel.
A bit of a step up from the 190e. Yours for £5k, chief. Get it bought.
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1231551
Anyone ever run a Mercedes 190E? Any good?
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kensalriser
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A bit of a step up from the 190e. Yours for £5k, chief. Get it bought.
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1231551
At £5k I can pretty much guaranteee that's a lot more decrepit than it appears in the photos. 157k on the four cylinder means watch out for head gasket trouble - and the seller hasn't quite managed to hide the hole in the driver's seat!
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Fair enough, but pretty easy fixes.
GavinA
pfm Member
I always fancied this Merc. Af
A bit of a step up from the 190e. Yours for £5k, chief. Get it bought.
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1231551
I always fancied this Merc. A friend had one in a dark blue with leather. When you got in an arm extruded from the seat back and offered you the seat belt so you didn’t have to scrabble around behind you for the belt.
A bit of a step up from the 190e. Yours for £5k, chief. Get it bought.
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1231551
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
…..and you can see the road through it?
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Yes, the two door variants from that period are my favourite.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Oh I dunno. When you get to my age, any excuse for a reach around is to be welcomed.
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I always wanted an AMG E36, but they go for stoopid money now. If you can find one...
GavinA
pfm Member
The Lexus or a Toyota would avoid a lot of pain. When I finally sold my Merc (see earlier post) I got a Passat; nice car but water ingress screwed the electrics and brought a big bill. I then bought a diesel Toyota Avensis. The reviews said ‘boring’ but at my age, boring is good. When the worries about diesel emissions began I swapped it for a petrol Avensis - a good move given today’s disparity in fuel prices to petrol’s favour.
Both Avenses(?) have been absolutely reliable and an easy relaxing drive. I imagine that the Lexus is the same but more so.
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No. It's a 30 year old luxury car. By all means run it as a modern classic but this means low miles, plenty of maintenance and a spare car for the real world. Move on, nothing to see here.I've been toying withe the idea of buying an old Mercedes Benz 190E when I retire my business in a year or two's time. I've often fancied one of these cars. They seem to have a mixture of quality and non-showiness that appeals.
I'm thinking a 1992/1993 car with driver airbag and ABS. Probably an auto box. Something around £4-£5k.
This would be our only car and would need to be reliable and durable for a couple of years at, say, 10,000miles/yr. Would also need to be cheap to run.
Am I being too optimistic thinking that a car this old could be run without major expense and 30+mpg? I've noticed that once the plastics and rubber bits start to fail in older cars, it can get expensive (fuel injection parts, steering racks, bearings, seals etc)
Just wondering if any other PFM-ers have run one of these and if you would recommend them?
hifilover1979
Bigger than you...
My pal has a 2.3 'Cosworth' - it's a lovely motor and mechanically been faultless; but rust wise, he's chased his tail, a lot...
Rockmeister
pfm Member
I’ve had two of these. Good cars , but that was long ago.
cutting42
Arrived at B4 Hacker Ergo
This guy on Youtube has tried older cheaper luxo barges. An S500 of 2002 vintage and a 97 LS400. He has done several editions about owning them.
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wulbert
pfm Member
Cheers, good video, I enjoyed it.
The story behind the Lexus LS series always appealed to me; Toyota taking on the big, established names in luxury cars, starting from scratch to produce a winning machine. An amazing achievement. Sure, the styling is a bit ersatz but that kind of adds to the appeal for me.
SteveG
pfm Member
I had a friend in Germany who had one of those back in the day as well as one of the original BMW M3 convertibles. I had a go in both and would definitely have liked to have the 190E of the two (although I'd have been happy with either). I've since lost touch with him so no idea if he kept them or what state they are in now.
I recall when I was driving the M3 a limo pulled up beside me at the lights and the chap in the back rolled down his window and made an offer to buy it on the spot.
Suffolk Tony
Aim low, achieve your goals, avoid disappointment.
No, it was a four- cylinder.
hifilover1979
Bigger than you...
It's a lovely looking car; very 'meaningful' haha
Looks great in the RVM when he's pulling up behind you...He does use it a lot; puts a good 5-6k miles on it a year; but he had had to have a lot of bodywork sorted as they tend to rot from the inside out, so when you see the rot, it's already too late!
He's had a number of M cars too; he's in the middle of rebuilding his 42k mile E39 M5, which is costing a fortune, but he earns it too, so why not!
He had an E36 M3 (stolen); an E46 M3 (stolen) and an E60 M5 (imploded on the way to Caffine & Machine a few years back; sold it for parts rather than stick more £££ into it etc)
His daily is a 270k mile E91 320D! He's been trying to kill it for a long time, but it just keeps on going and he'll do the journeys between up here in Lancs to Germany 4 times a year in it...