Napabavarian
Member
I've been around Mercedes diesels a while and I have learned there is a lot of crackhead Ness out there, fair prices move fast and high prices come with an angry seller. A couple diesel suburbans, old fords, I tried to buy one last year and wound up driving 2100 miles round trip to buy a really nice 2006 gmc for a little over twice the price of the mid 90s fords I was looking at.
I have owned and driven a 1982 300sd, 1987 190d turbo 5 speed, 2005 e320 cdi, and a 1998 e300d parts car to build a diesel sl, just need the sl, everything else burned.
Back to the sprinter, I got to looking at the t1n I believe, up to 2006, it has the rebuild able engine although a bit dated, I'd be happy with a project but nothing reasonable seems to come up, I found a couple with bad engines for $4000 or 3k with body damage, mechanical is easy, I'd prefer to skip body. Plenty of runners in the 12k range.
So I decided to look at the 07-08 disposable engine, my understanding, miles don't bother me, best I have found so far is one with 227k low roof 144", I'd prefer a color, this one is albino, 12k, 800 miles away, airplane tickets are cheap, finding rust or mechanical problems on the other end, nor so much.
Most of what I have found is 18k+
Are the vans actually selling at higher prices or just listed? It seems I see the same vans over and over, my head is all wrapped up, I paid $18,000 for a fully loaded (yes, everything) 4x4 crew cab 2006 gmc 144,000 miles and a stripped naked van is a similar price?
Thanks for the advice and input.
I have owned and driven a 1982 300sd, 1987 190d turbo 5 speed, 2005 e320 cdi, and a 1998 e300d parts car to build a diesel sl, just need the sl, everything else burned.
Back to the sprinter, I got to looking at the t1n I believe, up to 2006, it has the rebuild able engine although a bit dated, I'd be happy with a project but nothing reasonable seems to come up, I found a couple with bad engines for $4000 or 3k with body damage, mechanical is easy, I'd prefer to skip body. Plenty of runners in the 12k range.
So I decided to look at the 07-08 disposable engine, my understanding, miles don't bother me, best I have found so far is one with 227k low roof 144", I'd prefer a color, this one is albino, 12k, 800 miles away, airplane tickets are cheap, finding rust or mechanical problems on the other end, nor so much.
Most of what I have found is 18k+
Are the vans actually selling at higher prices or just listed? It seems I see the same vans over and over, my head is all wrapped up, I paid $18,000 for a fully loaded (yes, everything) 4x4 crew cab 2006 gmc 144,000 miles and a stripped naked van is a similar price?
Thanks for the advice and input.