What are E Class diesels like?

S-Type with the PSA based V6 TDI.

I thought they were fitting it to the new big Jag, too.

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SteveH
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The tourings are nice, but I don't need and estate, but I think he meant turbodiesel rather than touring diesel.

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Elder

parking scars are good, people respect them and give you room, incase you made them, but I haven't seen a seriously rusty toyota under 15 years old., and even pre-1990 they don't rust too badly.

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Elder

My mother had an original 60's S-type 3.4. Now if I could find one of those on LPG, that would be my life sorted. Sweet car that. originally metallic grey with red leather, but resprayed old english white for doing weddings in.

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Elder

ITYM, 'If I quadrupled my salary tomorrow', given that a decent, sorted S-Type isn't exactly cheap.

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SteveH

When she bought hers in the 80s, you couldn't give them away. People would buy a perfectly good MOTd car for scrap value, take out the IRS for a hot rod, sell of any other removable mechanicals, then weigh in the Shells. So much nicer cars in my opinion than the Mk1/Mk2 shape that got used for Morse.

So many good ones got trashed.

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Elder

Just like that one.

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Red leather. Although
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seems a little too shady even for stupid me.

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Elder

Cheers. I'm happy to hear the bad as well as the good points. Which one lasted well and which one failed horrible and only made a=20 little cash at the auctions?

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Elder

Well, this is what the price guides say:

'Show': £15k 'Average': £5k 'Restoration': £500

I'm going to say now that you wouldn't want 'average' as a daily driver. So you'd be looking at somewhere between 'average' and 'show' condition.

Call it £8-£10k, at least.

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SteveH

It was when they were given away, but my mother paid over the odds for=20 hers at =A32k because it had to be reliable as a wedding car.

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Elder

If it was indeed reliable then £2k probably wasn't over the odds. (c:

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Douglas Payne

You really couldn't give them away. Back then, anything, except a=20 roller, over 10 years old was scrap. People were in the Thatcher boom,=20 buying brand new houses. My dad used to go the auctions and buy Wolseley=20

6's and VX4/90s with a years ticket and no problems for =A3100. He was the= =20 smart cookie because he wasn't getting into hock for car finance on top=20 of the mortgage. A P6 was worth =A350 because of the fuel prices.

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Elder

Cheers. I'm happy to hear the bad as well as the good points. Which one lasted well and which one failed horrible and only made a little cash at the auctions?

The 2.6 and 3.2 petrol's make the money, and are very rip for gassing. They seem be better built too...

Tim..

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Tim..

E300TDs are ok. Later ones have the CDi engine which is less thirsty. Smaller engined ones not too bad either.

Manual 2003 onwards 211s under 10k at auctions now, and much better built -

210s known for rusting and rattling a bit but mechanically sound otherwise.

I'm running a 2003 E270CDi auto now, my right foot is making a 34mpg average, dervy drove it yesterday and got 45mpg. Not bad for a 140mph family car.

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Tim S Kemp

He's not wrong - see this

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Tim S Kemp

Hmm, smokey.

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Elder

Well maybe. I had no difficulty walking away from the one I had went to see at the auctions last week.

It just looked disreputable.

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Bob Sherunckle

There will always be bad ones (smashes bad repairs etc). My old GT4 was a 1990. 140k miles, it had had a hard life and leaked from every orifice. But underneither, inside everywhere, it was totally solid and not even much surface marking anywhere that had paint on. I was stunned.

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Elder

*cough* ITYM the Ford Lion 2.7 V6. It's got virtually zero input from PSA, and built solely at Dagenham. Likewise the PSA 1.4/1.6/2.0 engines have very little input from Ford.

Andy (member of Lion V6/V8 design team, Whitley, Coventry)

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Andy Tucker

There's a V8...?

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Iridium

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