I bought this hopeless pile of export grade Three Pointed Swastika shite today from a respectable* purveyor of fine* motors to temporarily negotiate our soon Bonneville resembling roads with it.
Its 2001 vintage completely belies the fact that it's like driving a 1995 Ramada Inn suite.
Turns out its first owner was Luton Town Football (whatever that is) Club, for use by its then manager Joe Kinnear (whoever that is). Be it as it may, I guess what's left of it in Spring can be flipped for the healthy profit I'm entitled to.
It's the desirable E240, which isn't desirable at all, I'm just saying it.
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Supply Chain Disruption
1957 DKW 3=6 Sonderklasse
1967 Renault 16 GL
1983 Renault 4 TL
2001 Mercedes E240
2002 Datsun Dice
Junkman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 7:38 am
Turns out its first owner was Luton Town Football (whatever that is) Club, for use by its then manager Joe Kinnear (whoever that is).
Must not have not been doing that well if they could only afford a E240 over a E320. Presumably they chose fabric seats over leather/mbtex as they wick up the post game sweat better?
I've been impressed with my recent M112 engine equipped Mercedes. Relatively easy & simple to work on for a modern engine and still decent amount of power as relatively modern. Yours isn't crammed quite as full with control modules as my W211 though.
Fuck me it's turning into the Mecdes owners club on here, we need more French shite to even things out. Nice to see you back JM even if it is just a fleeting drop by. It would be nice to know how you are getting on with the Deek as I just never really got on with mine.
SiC wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 7:45 am
I've been impressed with my recent M112 engine equipped Mercedes. Relatively easy & simple to work on for a modern engine and still decent amount of power as relatively modern. Yours isn't crammed quite as full with control modules as my W211 though.
I've replaced the key fob batteries and thus can confirm it's easy to work on.
If it were just one step up from shit, it would be a remarkably good car I hate to admit. In fact, I might look for a better example once it grenaded.
Supply Chain Disruption
1957 DKW 3=6 Sonderklasse
1967 Renault 16 GL
1983 Renault 4 TL
2001 Mercedes E240
2002 Datsun Dice
SiC wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 7:45 am
I've been impressed with my recent M112 engine equipped Mercedes. Relatively easy & simple to work on for a modern engine and still decent amount of power as relatively modern. Yours isn't crammed quite as full with control modules as my W211 though.
I've replaced the key fob batteries and thus can confirm it's easy to work on.
If it were just one step up from shit, it would be a remarkably good car I hate to admit. In fact, I might look for a better example once it grenaded.
These are probably more likely to spectacularly fail themselves on rust rather than grenade themselves?
SiC wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 8:10 am
Old stuff always has an interest on here.
According to my experience nobody gives a flying shit about cars on here.
I tend to agree when the other section on here has nearly twice the posts than this car section of the forum. But there are some of us on here that are still interested in them.
