Stripped down to ...............

[pascal]

Anyone interested in seeing video footage of a C 220cdi being stripped down
to its nuts and bolts.........no engine wear after 100,000km

http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/video/0,,0-5-10415-1-185152-1-0-1-0-0-0-68-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0,00.html

It seems MB still knows how to build a good engine, so why would anyone
want to 'chip it'

Free spare parts for someone?

 

[jberks]

Sad but true, in a few years the scrap yards will be full of shiny mercs with unworn engines and fried electronics!

 

[philharve]

No wear at 100,000km

Hi All

Well .... 100,000km is still only 62,000 miles!

What is the typical life of a M-B engine if properly maintained? 200,000 - 300,000 miles before attention required? Maybe more! Maybe considerably more!

I once saw a similar stripdown of a Toyota at 100,000 miles: no appreciable wear. It was compared with the average 'new' Ford motorcar of the same era.

I am old enough to remember a time when a 100,000 miles signalled the death knell for most cars. Few owners would risk keeping their cars beyond 100,000 miles because something dreadful might happen. Why 100,000 miles? There's nothing magical about this number. My last car bettered 170,000 miles ... that was a Toyota!

REGARDs Phil

 

[tom7035]

Am I right in thinking Volvo were the first to have a 6 figure mileometer on their speedos? In the 60's I think.

You young lads/lassies don't know how lucky you are. I can remember when it was an oil change every 1000 miles and a 'head off, de-coke and valve-grind' every 10,000! Also when 20-25 mpg from a 1100 c.c. side-valve engine was the norm! (and some still have the temerity to remember 'the good old days' - ha!....)

 

[paulcallender]

In some type of reverse logic, I'd be suspicious of a Mercedes without a high mileage. My 1993 W124 has 152,000 miles, I also have a 1994 VW Transporter with 180,000 miles. Both running sweetly. The 1975 W114 has 98,000 miles and needs attention in the engine department.....

Interesting video! I wonder if the students managed to screw it back together and make it run? Or did they do it, and after say a whole term, someone turned the key, it went click and it then dawned on them, they got the cambelt timing wrong and they managed to punch holes into each piston, bend the crankshaft, trash the valves and warp the cylinder head? And in the frustration, they snapped the key in the ignition barrel too, or something.

 

[stwat]

My old man's volvo 740 2.3 had done just over 300.000 miles on the origional engine when he sold it!!!! And it ran sweet as a nut with no nasty engine noises at all.

He knows the chap who bought it and its still going strong with around 330.000 miles on the clock.

He had a W123 200 before that, that had done just over 250.000 miles.

Stu

 

[peterchurch]

While I was in Holland I was speaking to a cab driver and he was saying that it was regular for the MB cabs out there to go round the clock on one engine and gearbox !

Edit:

I think most cars could do this now but the diffence is the MB still feels newat the end of it...
I was in a hotel reserved taxi the other week, it was a plated P reg with 375K miles on the clock, all done in London traffic and it was sparkling