150,000 miles - roll on.
My odometer clicked past 150,000 miles on the drive home today. At 22 years old, my car does remarkably well - and I'm still partial to "her" lines.
When I was in Kenya (one year after my current car was built), a remarkable percentage of the cars on the road were 1960s era Mercedes, so perhaps I have some more good years ahead.
Long live good 1960s to 1986 German engineering.
Unfortunately, maybe this is an era that may be as good as it gets for a while:
From ( http://www.mynrma.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/mynrma/hs.xsl/quality_research.htm )
Ouch -
" The American Consumer's Union 2006 Annual Car Reliability Survey, based on 1.3 million vehicles, published in its Consumer Reports magazine and website, names the least reliable car in the US as the Mercedes-Benz M Class.
"Mercedes-Benz does not have a single model (in the 2006 survey) reliable enough to be recommended," according to Consumer Reports.
This continues Mercedes' quality and reliability difficulties of recent years. In 2004, the E Class was rated in the same Consumer Reports survey as the least reliable car on US roads.
Shortly after the results were made public, Mercedes-Benz CEO Dr Eckhard Cordes announced a worldwide recall of 2001-2005 E Class V6 and V8 models to rectify potential electrical and braking system problems.
The E Class's problems prompted a commitment from Mercedes to address the quality issue. Evidently, it still has some way to go."
- END quoted source.
i hate to break it to you .. but, your car, it's a "he"
How many miles you have on your Prius? Im pretty sure we hit 65K on our 06 model last week.
Yea I like the design of the Mercedes but Gerry seems to always have trouble with his gas meter... to me the gas meter is one of the things I would not want to live without
brian: Hate to break it to you but your a she
Gerry's 2000 Mercedes has 188 thousand and we hope it keep going but have serious doubts! Yours has to be a record
So much for bragging. I called my mechanic today when my car would not STOP running after I took the key out and walked away.
Turns out there is a link between the system that controls the locks, and the valve that turns the car off. Fortunately there is a little red lever labeled STOP, that you press on the side of the engine block for just such events. This may be related to a fuse change for the locks that I performed recently, in order to get my locked down gas cap door to open. That was also a crowd pleaser in that I had my scrubs on in a gas station, and in changing the fuse set off the car alarm and made a moderately impressive spark, and a more impressive YELP as I hit my head on the open hood of the engine.
I wish I had taken auto shop class in High School - but perhaps my 22 year old car will teach me on-the-job.
DAD! Why didn't you tell me this stuff!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
150,000 + miles.. wow! I suppose not turning off is better than not starting, sorta.