A bit over a year ago an insane 24 year old Punjabi IDIOT used his employers Peterbuilt tractor trailer to purposely hit my car, a pristine 1993 Mercedes W124 sedan.. There were witnesses and statements issued.. unknown to me was that Mercedes had ceased parts support for its classic models changing a LONG time policy... There were NO repair parts available.. .There were no good used parts available either..
So I changed tacks... and hunted down a donor car.. and it became the source of the parts that were needed to repair my car.. Work started in September and was just completed.. and today was our anniversary so I picked up my Wife with the car on the way it was threatening to pour so I high tailed it to our garage and had it safely tucked in before the rain started..
VERY happy to have the car back again, to have saved it.. a miraculous save of a low miles clean 32 year old Mercedes sedan that is living history of the best car that was ever made...
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My dad drives a green Mercedes too but it’s an old suv that was torn to hell by i’m guessing the cops in a drug raid? 😅 he got it for cheap at a junk yard and drives it as is 😅
@YoMomma Thank you very much - we had a fun evening with family...They stopped building this series in 1995 - thirty years ago...... my FIL had one of the very last 1995 convertibles built. . This sedan built two years earlier was also costly... both cars then selling for more than a new E class costs in the showroom today... extreme reliability, durability - it was common for one to last beyond one million miles... polished stainless steel trim, wool carpets, leather and real gleaming wood inside.. Most of the paint you are looking at on my car is untouched and original...The shop was beyond incredible at matching the new panels and polishing the original ones.. NOTHING MB or anyone else produces today is as reliable or durable as this car is. Perhaps they might last a third as long or travel a third as far if you were prepared to deal with the service costs.. But people do not want cars built to last forever, they lease them for three or four years and trade them in on new models with more gadgets in them that break...What precipitated the change was that prior to Lexis, Infinity and Acura - Mercedes owned the market and had essentially minimal competition for luxury vehicles so the engineers were in charge to build the best cars ever conceived.. When the Japanese upstarts came out with their cars they were half the price and of course not half as durable but customers purchased them and so Mercedes had no option but to put accountants in charge and tell the Engineers to listen to them.. and they started producing garbage vehicles with Mercedes logos on them to compete with the Japanese and to stay alive.. and they started selling more cars at much lower prices.. they abandoned quality and durability entirely.. Mercedes mission statement had been "The best or NOTHING"... My car - was the last one to live up to that mission statement.. So what is unusual is recently a lot of retrospectives have been put on line about these cars.. the market price for good ones is rising rapidly... When I drove this car yesterday the first thing was that everyone was staring at it.. and as I am driving what is essentially a brand new 32 year old car - I am thinking that I would not swap even with anything else on the road... BUT... parts are a challenge and that challenge is going to become much worse over time.. I am resourceful but there are limits in what can be accomplished..
The same FIL has had five Mercedes SUV's in the time I have had this one sedan..they are garbage.. This generation of MB was and remains legendary.. The conclusion that these Facebook reels are saying is that this car was the best car ever built.. I happen to agree with that statement..
@pdqsailor1 oh we had a 2004 BMW X5 once.. it was nice.. but we sold it because we had to move our house and were broke sitting in a hot shed 116’F in the summer with no ac it was unbearable but they wouldn't give us electric because they had some flood rule about floor elevation having to be 1’ above the road and we were downhill (our property slopes down to a creek) so we sold our car to move our house/shed up by the street (higher ground) 🙄 dumb rule as it has never flooded here ever but whatever 😳 the suv drove nice.. had good power 🙂 my mom has a pitiful little car it has super weak momentum but at least she gets good gas milage .. I'm happy with my current car it has decent power and mpg 🙂 heated leather seats and what not 🙂
@YoMomma I own three cars.. My Wife does not drive... This one, my Wife's Grandfathers' Cadillac sedan and my small SUV which is the beater.. I think the balance of simplicity and elegance in the Mercedes is perfect.. I am not a fan of gadgets in cars... there is no cup holder in the Mercedes.. the engineers said we built this car for you to DRIVE not to drink coffee in..
@pdqsailor1 such driving snobs lol.. we have an old four door pick up with a topper.. before we got our shed we were living in my dad’s 9’x11’ shed in the woods in his alt property with our 7 dogs (4 tiny cute puppies, 2 yorkies and one pitbull) then we slept in the back of our truck while clearing this property.. 😅 till we got the shed then we slept in the shed.. one of those cute lil pre built sheds they sell people.. they make tiny houses out of them out here.. ours has a lil porch ☺ we have a bathroom and kitchen in ours but i think i overbuilt the kitchen because i have this thing for roasting turkeys on thanksgiving but i didn't do it the past two years because i was having solidarity with the hostages.. (or using it as an excuse to be lazy and not cook idk) but i roasted the turkey when my brother visited from Israel recently with his family ☺
