W163s are amazing beasts. I have around 600,000 miles on them. Ran one from 0 to 350K miles, then gave it to a homeless buddy and he lived in it and drove it for another couple of years. Super easy to work on. I have abused the crap out of them and enjoyed every minute! Allowing them to overheat very badly (warping heads) is the only thing that kills them. I drove one 10 miles back and forth to work for a week when I didn't have time to fix the water pump; with only bags of ice on top of the manifold, with no cooling system the temperature never got above normal. Beasts!
This vehicles are unic, great on road and offroad, I had one for 10 years and its running strong, done off road many times and thousands of miles cross country, never fail me, it's an incredible vehicle
Have had 2 different W163 before, now still have 1998 W163 it is better on off-road than any other MLs and can keep up with 4x4s and also bought a W166, I gotta say W166 is also bulletproof, one thing I gotta say about my latest W163 is it has given me transmission ⚙️ problems for the second time 🤦🏻♂️ could be some electric hopefully 🙏🏼
My 99 ML430 was built in Germany,and was a japan import right drive, everything works,mint condition,i changed the transfer case oil,it was black but no metal,these things are a tank..
My 2005 ML270 cdi has been reliable in the past 4 years up until 320.000 km. Now it starts and stalls when outside temperature is sub zero. Then it take some time to start again. Fuel line has been replaced, also high pressure fuel pump seal. Can not find the problem
Mercedes one of the worst cars, even the jacking point are collapsing Absolutely rabish You name it there is from oil leaks to whatever you can think of , its the worst 4x4
