300 D Motor Mounts

I am glad... but $8500 for a $30 parts is just not right!

That's about 1/3 the price of a new Prius and you have a hell of a lot better car. I had a rented Prius in Minnesota last week and I was sure glad to get back into my 300 TDT when I got back to Las Vegas. I went on a field trip with our local museum on Saturday to view some rock art at a site south of here and a lady who was on the trip and an acquaintance of my girlfriend was parked next to us at the site and when we were eating lunch back at the cars she expressed admiration for my car and told us the story of their family's 300 TDT that they loved so much and "should never have sold." She asked if I would sell her mine and I told her I would add her name to the list of people who want to buy the car should I ever decide to sell it. I have another friend who lives here now but is from Nicaragua. He used to have a

It took me a couple of years, also because of motor mounts, to get my

But I think Metric honored their warranty better than the place you dealt with so I got a really carefully rebuilt and adjusted new injection pump and a newly balanced set of injectors for free so that my engine is running so smoothly that it only bumped at idle when one of the mounts was completely broken. Now that the mounts are new it is as smooth and quiet as it must have been in 1982 when it was new. Also, I am getting amazing fuel economy. I got 36 MPG crossing from the Owens Valley to Pahrump, NV via Death Valley last week, which is unheard of. It was the sound of the engine that triggered the woman's memory Saturday of their old 300 TDT that she missed so much.

Sometime I might have to get mine repainted. I think the left front fender was smashed before I bought the car in 1992 and the repair shop paint is really getting faded and chipped. The right rear was smashed by an idiot driving one of those big wheel pickups in Las Vegas about