I had one new in year 2000. It was not well built [in Austria] but was a good utility truck. I couldn’t get on with the suspension which, even on a smooth road, kept throwing my head from side to side in a most uncomfortable way. A far as driving it otherwise it was fine. Pulled well and was economical on fuel. Mine was a more basic five seater, no sunroof, good quality cloth seats and grey ‘carbon fibre’ type plastic surrounds to gear lever and matching other trim. These have a rust prone chassis while later ones have better suspension with a monocoque body but generally lack a two speed transfer box.
I agree, in comparison to a Porsche Cayenne or a VW Touraeg at a similar age, the ML isn't up to the task personally I only picked it up due to the rush for a tow vehicle (3500kg capacity) for my race car and the budget was sub £1,000 so didn't have much selection 🙈🤣 I'm surprised with the little rust on mine actually, considering this era of Mercs seemed to have been made out pig iron LOL Thanks for watching. I appreciate the comment 🙏🏼
@PocketRockets ended up in flames and being written off. Had an older e320 cdi before it with a power chip on it. Very fast for a diesel in its time. I recon the 270 would go just as well with one as it's the same engine with one less piston. Recently purchased an old l322 td6. It's a nicer car to be honest. I thought the seating position in the ml was awful but the seats were comfy. L322 seats you can get them just right. Thought saab seats were nice lol
@phillmcaverty It had bad chuffing (pointing to injector seal) so unbolted the engine cover to find probably the worse rocker cover on any ML suffering with Black Death 🙈 Wish I filmed it for this video, but hey ho! It did its job for me towing my race car but I felt it was going to soon turn into a money pit the longer I kept it Now need to find a more modern/reliable tow vehicle now 🙃
No car is perfect (not even Toyota/Lexus) so why not just keep it? If you still need the same usage, whatever else you replace it with will have issues of its own. Better the devil you know... etc...
I agree no car is perfect, they all have flawes (no matter the age) but I understand what you're saying Problem is I felt it was getting to the point where things were likely to go wrong so didn't want to be stuck with something that doesn't get used loads and not be able to recoup money back
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for £1000 that's a steal! ideal tow car though!
Even better when you sell for a juicy profit 📈 👌🏼
Thanks for watching mate!
I had one new in year 2000. It was not well built [in Austria] but was a good utility truck. I couldn’t get on with the suspension which, even on a smooth road, kept throwing my head from side to side in a most uncomfortable way. A far as driving it otherwise it was fine. Pulled well and was economical on fuel. Mine was a more basic five seater, no sunroof, good quality cloth seats and grey ‘carbon fibre’ type plastic surrounds to gear lever and matching other trim. These have a rust prone chassis while later ones have better suspension with a monocoque body but generally lack a two speed transfer box.
I agree, in comparison to a Porsche Cayenne or a VW Touraeg at a similar age, the ML isn't up to the task personally
I only picked it up due to the rush for a tow vehicle (3500kg capacity) for my race car and the budget was sub £1,000 so didn't have much selection 🙈🤣
I'm surprised with the little rust on mine actually, considering this era of Mercs seemed to have been made out pig iron LOL
Thanks for watching. I appreciate the comment 🙏🏼
Rumour has it the Nokia still exists and still hasn't run out battery yet.
🤣🤣🤣 Imagine if it was still with the car, I would have been using the phone more than the car! Thanks for watching
Had one. Good cars apart from the injector issue
TELL ME ABOUT IT PHIL! I had the pleasure of the infamous 'Black Death'
Thanks for watching 👍
@PocketRockets ended up in flames and being written off. Had an older e320 cdi before it with a power chip on it. Very fast for a diesel in its time. I recon the 270 would go just as well with one as it's the same engine with one less piston. Recently purchased an old l322 td6. It's a nicer car to be honest. I thought the seating position in the ml was awful but the seats were comfy. L322 seats you can get them just right. Thought saab seats were nice lol
@phillmcaverty It had bad chuffing (pointing to injector seal) so unbolted the engine cover to find probably the worse rocker cover on any ML suffering with Black Death 🙈
Wish I filmed it for this video, but hey ho!
It did its job for me towing my race car but I felt it was going to soon turn into a money pit the longer I kept it
Now need to find a more modern/reliable tow vehicle now 🙃
No car is perfect (not even Toyota/Lexus) so why not just keep it? If you still need the same usage, whatever else you replace it with will have issues of its own. Better the devil you know... etc...
I agree no car is perfect, they all have flawes (no matter the age) but I understand what you're saying
Problem is I felt it was getting to the point where things were likely to go wrong so didn't want to be stuck with something that doesn't get used loads and not be able to recoup money back