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Mercedes Benz 220 D diesel Car was manufactured till 1975. How successful was this model? What are its inherent weaknesses ? ( e.g one point I feel is that the wheel caps get rusty pretty early than the other body parts.

2006-06-20 19:35:36 · 3 answers · asked by ANANDA C 1 in Cars & Transportation Car Makes Mercedes-Benz

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All in all the 220D was a very good car. Typical of Mercedes diesels at the time, it was underpowered, lacking the turbocharger that appeared on some later models, notably the 300SD, but if was very reliable.

The wheel covers rust is really just a cosmetic issue, and replacements are easy to locate. The larger issue was that since the early 1950s Mercedes had been using a subframe design which you see in most cars today, no actual frame, but rigidity being achieved by building tubes or channels into the floor pan. A good many of the late 50s, 60s and early 70s Mercedes models suffered from floor pan rust problems and, in that ther was no real frame, once the floor pan and these channels rusted, the repair was terribly expensive. This was also evidenced in the 240D model--among my favorites of all Mercedes diesels because of its incredible reliability.

By the mid to late 80s they seem to have solved most of these problems, as did a number of other manufacturers during the same time frame. Most, like Mercedes, employed better drainage passages to remove trapped water, improved designs of underbody and underfender plastic skirts to prevent water and dirt from accumulating in crevices, and improved rust inhibitors. They also abandoned the old method of attaching trim pieces with metal clips fastened through holes in the body which tended to admit water and debris into places where it could accumulate, with the debris serving as a sponge to hold the water in place against the body for long periods, thereby promoting rust.

Still, if you can find a good 220D from California, Texas. Arizona, or New Mexico, where the weather is consistently dry and they do not salt the roads, you have a fair chance of getting one with a sound undercarriage. The mechanicals, as long as you do not mind the relatively low horsepower output, are very realiable.

2006-06-20 21:10:49 · answer #1 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 1 0

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2016-03-26 23:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

In Germany it was a popular taxi, due to the poor output and the high reliability lasting for many 100000 miles or kilometres.

2006-06-25 10:59:12 · answer #3 · answered by swissnick 7 · 0 0

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