[MBZ] '91 300D purchase inspection

[Luther Gulseth]

Just arrived home from the inspection.  Car is a dog (bet a 240D would  
beat it off the line) and won't get out of it's own way.  It billows smoke  
under acceleration (blue-grey smoke) and smokes at ilde.  Also, when it  
first started up, it sounded worse than my 617's do and had what sounds  
like an injector nailing.  The last work done before this started up was  
R&R of the glow plugs at the local MB dealer.
The accel is funky, when it finally get's enough rpms to go (say 3000+)  
and you start coasting or let completely off the accel, it will continue  
to accelerate until you push the brake.  What gives with this?
Transmission shifts great between 1 and 2 but won't go higher than 2.  I  
had it to 4500 rpm before I gave up and pulled over to turn around.   
Shortly after I pulled over, the county sherriff stopped behind me asking  
what was going on.  He gave me a "stopeed you and didn't issue a citation  
or ticket" deal and politely stopped traffic and escorted me back to the  
owner's house.
Interior/exterior are very clean and don't show the mileage of 235kmi.   
Paint is black with bottom grey trim and is glossy and has very few minor  
scratches that would buff/wax up very nicely.  Everything in the interior  
(palomino leather) works except the passenger headrest.  Sunroof slides  
and pops up very smoothly, all windows work, all switches work, gauges  
work normally, trunk is clean.
Overall the car is very clean and sharp looking.  Any ideas what might be  
up with the engine and trans?  What might this be worth in this  
condition?  TIA all,

Luther

On Sat, 13 May 2006 01:18:30 -0500, Luther Gulseth <luther at gulseth.net>  
wrote:

> hense the PPI.....
>
> On Sat, 13 May 2006 00:35:36 -0500, Sunil Hari <sunilhari at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> if the asking price is that low, you have to wonder what they know and
>> what
>> you don't.
>>
>> On 5/13/06, Luther Gulseth <luther at gulseth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> if you only knew the asking price......
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 22:31:56 -0500, Sunil Hari <sunilhari at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > just to warn you, that offer might be way way low, depending on
>>> > condition.
>>> > they're going on ebay for $7-9K
>
>
>



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Luther   KB5QHU
Alma, Ark
'83 300SD (231,xxx kmi)
'82 300CD (159,xxx kmi)
'82 300D  (74,000 kmi) needs MAJOR work