> <<For what it is worth, a friend of mine has one of these same year and > model and he loves it. He has over 200K on it and has never had any > problems with. He swears by the C280 rather than the newer 220, 230, or > 240.>> > Having purchased a '95 C280 new, (drove it six years) I find it hard to believe that a 200K mile car had never had problems. In fact, flat impossible. There can't be a single M104 engine on the planet that hasn't had a head gasket, just as one example.
Even so, the W202 C280 is a pretty good car and far better than the W201, diesel or not. All of the designed in faults would have been repaired long ago on someone else's nickel. Here's mine. Garnet red metallic with Saddle full leather: http://members.aol.com/relngson/C280PHOTOS/C280PIC01.jpg RLE
