A look into the corrosion issues faced by Mercedes-Benz cars built before 1999
Who doesn't love an old Merc? Especially one from its celebrated bulletproof era...In last week’s thrilling Citroen DS 3 episode Shed was blethering on about lady owners once being seen as something good to mention in any used car ad. That was in a more genteel time before ladies had tattoos, foul mouths and the ability to beat big blokes at arm-wrestling. A time like 1998, in fact, when Mercedes built this week’s C240 shed.
Besides the arrival of strong women, the turn of the millennium brought in something equally new: rusty Mercs. Nobody is exactly sure how it happened – wrong sort of paint, wrong sort of metal, wrong sort of accountants – or when the problems started. The inception point seemed to vary between models. As a general rule though you could probably say that not many Benzes built before 1999 had major issues with corrosion. By ‘major’ Shed means metal that pretty much dissolved within the first five years of its exposure to the Earth’s atmospher
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