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Suppose that depends on the definition of looked after!
Labouring under a similar notion, i once bought a 190E for a few hundred pounds. Had 170k.. indicated. Owned it for about 6 months.
Nice to look at.. but:
Discovered headgasket was blowing, water needed topping up every 200 miles or so.
Kickdown response from the auto trans was hit and miss, not what you want when you pull out to overtake..
Alternator failed on the M4.
Top reasonable speed was 65mph, due to quite short top gear.
Fan belt tensioner was shot wobbling all over the place
Cooling system was gunged up to the extent that heater never worked.
Which was just as well as the heater matrix was shot, dribbling water down the bulkhead into both footwells, painful to passenger if the hot water gets on them.
Also the bearing on the fan blower motor were shot and making a horrific noise, so you couldnt clear away the condensation caused by the water leaking in.
That forced you to open the windows, which filled the car with the petrol fumes from the leaking fuel lines, so you needed a shower after every drive.
Still, very smooth and solid feeling, and seeing the 3 pointed star (aka crosshairs) on the bonnet as you drove gave you warm feelings. :)
...Until of course the inevitable happened and some scrote wrenched it off.
Edited by ddr on 15/05/2011 at 19:00
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