[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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