The MB stealership in Milwaukee had a BMW wagon with one of these engines in it, and they wanted to make me a DEAL. I talked to Randy about it and he told me to run away as if my hair was on fire.
Asshats also wanted to sell me a W124 260E, too. What a POS that car was. Dan > On Jun 22, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> There was an 80s vintage BMW diesel, which I looked at once when searching >> for my 1979 300TD. Randy Steele warned me off of them, saying that they had >> some serious issues with heads leaking, I believe. Sounds like the >> rodbender MB engines. > > 324d or 524td. > It was a smooth and powerful little 2.4L inline six. > Sipped fuel like a 240D, cracked heads like a 1.6L Volkswagen. > > Lincoln bought some of the turbo engines in the mid 1980s, if you can imagine > getting 32mpg hwy in a Continental when the speed limit was 55mph. > Then there's the Vixen motorhome, a somewhat brutal environment for a small > turbocharged engine with weak heads. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
