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Originally Posted by Drive Stick
thos mecedes diesels are known to run half a million miles. I almost bought one with 360,000 miles it started, and ran like it was brand new.
Some a hole tried to steal my car while I was looking at it, so naturally I handled business and had to leave town before I got to pay the guy.
you can run them on SVO with very little work, saving you from burning gasoline at all. (straight vegetable oil.)
just something to think about
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I almost forgot about this topic.
I did not buy the 190d. I did buy a 93 civic for the GF. I bought a 01 Jetta 1.8 turbo and sold it. I bought a 2000 VW TDI Beetle 5spd as a play car and maybe for my daughters 1st car. It consistantly is getting 42mpg bone stock. But I purchased a 1984 Mercedes 300D, 306k miles, which i'm running SVO in at 10 gal SVO/5 gal diesel I'm getting getting about 60mpg on paid for fuel. I get the SVO free from a local restaurant. Yes there is some processing labor time but at a 75-90% fuel cost savings it seems well worth it!! I've got almost 10,000 miles on SVO in this car with no problems to date.
note: i had multi fuel filter clogging issues on my other mercedes after running Bio-Diesel. I have NOT run any bio in this car and there has been ZERO filter issues!