Car is burgundy with red interior and auto trans. Engine has 143,000 miles and has low compression. Please email me with your needs before it goes to the shredder.

 

Yes... location please.

 

I am near Detroit Michigan. The car has had it's inner fenders professional replaced (I have pictures taken during the process), the interior is nearly mint, but the body needs some rust repair.

I tried to sell it whole but no one even looked. I know I could pull the engine apart and resleeve/re-ring it, but why for a $1500 car?

I did a valve adjustment after posting this ... Still no start. This thing has blowby even when you crank it, so evenif I did get it started I know Ihave at least one bad cylinder. When it starts it stays running ... It is getting it to start that is the problems (and it is not the glow plugs ... It will not even restart when the engine is hot). I think there are at leasttwo marginal elements, the compression, the IP and maybe even the starter, that are combining to cause the problem. I have 100 hours invested in screwing around with this car and it simply isn't worth my time, especially when the240D with auto have virtually no resale value. Thanks for your response.

 

I am near Detroit Michigan. My email address is nordisk123 at yahoo.com. Let me know if you want the whole car, or what parts you need. If you email me I can send you some pictures.

 

Good luck buddy. I love the front end styling of that particular year. Are you going to buy another Benz?[&:]

 

I would not touch another one with a 10 foot pole: I haven't got toexperience the tremendous reliablity that I hear Benz enthusiaststalk about.I can see you are an enthusiasts and I can tell just from your tone that you know I have a boat anchor, so why buy another? I have a file folder from mile one of this car and it is over an inch think: It appear this [particular] car was a lemon out of the factory. I have owned Chrysler 318's all my life, putting 100's of thousands of miles on them and I can add the receipts from any 5 of them together and come nowhere near the number of repair receipts generated from this one Benz.