[Vwdiesel] Mercedes diesel reliability

LBaird119 at aol.com LBaird119 at aol.com
Mon Nov 15 17:45:08 PST 2010


In a message dated 11/15/2010 3:31:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
doyt at buckeye-express.com writes:

> Summarizing the Consumer Report picture, it looks like anything earlier 
> than 1985 was a legend, and past 1985 it becomes increasingly risky in 
> most 
> of the evaluated areas, with 1985 being the last example of a car that 
> would at least score highly in most evaluations and not have some really 
> terrible areas of concern....except maybe the A/C.  

  Only catch is that pre '85 cars tend to have fairly common automatic 
transmission 
problems and near to none had manuals.  '85 on trannys are good from what I 
was 
told though.  However, only '85 will fit prior to '85.
     Loren


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