This £350 Mercedes 190E that will make you jealous
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2023
- In today's video we are checking out an absolute bargain car that Berrow Motors driver, Josh, nabbed recently. What a cool car and so nice to see in original conditional. Let us know if we should do a follow up video!
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I was working at a MB dealership and in 2020 we had a customer buy a new a class saloon. He had a 190e that he hadn’t brought with him as his daily since 1996 and was going to scrap it! I managed to get it for 3 bottles of wine worth €33 each and it turned out to be a decent car. Still have it.
Old git here - I remember when the 190 came out in the early 80s, quite a phenomenon at the time. That's a terrific example (33 years old, one owner, all the history), and have a look at the interior, nothing is falling apart. A true time-warp car and I love it.
Love the old Mercedes actually well made cars before the accounting department took over the company
Get it in the workshop, get everything sorted (including the sunroof) and it would still be a great car for £3k.
Fantastic. I miss my 190e. I love how different they look to everything modern. I love that they're relatively lightweight, reasonably narrow for threading through traffic and that the suspension just sails round twisty corners without upsetting the passengers. (I might have just talked myself into getting another one!)
Joe showing he's still a teen/young man at heart. Brilliant video this.
Good to see a bargain had and a good story, would be good to see the follow up and more of Josh he is a good egg.
Love this car. I daily a 1995 C124 320. This era of Mercedes are the best.
It’s a keeper! Profit will go in no time, that’s a one off you’ll regret selling!
Great video! What a lovely car, you should buy it from him and show it!😎
Thanks for the content.
A great buy! I'm all for originality if you still have it.
My best old cars have been rear wheel drive old Volvo. Had a 1986 740 GLE estate in 2002. £425 My first car. Drove that for 5 years.
After a brand new Corolla bought a 1989 240 GLT Volvo auto estate in 2009 for £350. Daily and only car for 8 years and owned for 10 years nearly. Sold at 234,000miles and still drove faultless. Sold for £500.
Currently in 2016 bought a 1996 Volvo 940 SE LPT Auto estate for £250. After having the 240, wanted something with AC and ABS brakes plus split folding rear seats and sunroof. Was amazed on how smooth and quiet the 940 was after the 240. Last year rebuilt the front suspension at 208,000 miles and finally fixed the AC. Used pipes, new Nissens condenser and used compressor. Body paintwork not the best but used as a van for self employment! 210,000 miles and all been very reliable.
Brilliant cars!!! I had an identical one back in 2014. Mine had only done 97,000 miles yet this looks so much fresher than mine ever did. Great buy!!
Lucky lad! I would give my right arm for a bargain like that. Restore it Josh but keep it original please! Lovely car.
Great Clip great content fair plays guys all the best on the future
Lovely to see an old classic on the road although I'm not sure Mr Khan in London would like it! Good to see it doesn't seem to have any rust. I've seen later models, around the early 2000s, start to rust over the wheel arches. Are all the bus drivers there that mad, even the one following you was catching up! Great video and would like to see a follow up.
wow what a gem and good person you did not say g.y lol keep the good work up. respect to you . 😁
Nice content, thank you!
Love these car's. My friend has got one at work. Was on about selling it, very nice looking motor.
yeah! follow up vid please!!
Built in the Mercedes era of when they put engineering and quality over profit, Lovely car, It will go on and on if looked after 👌
Definitely need a follow up video 👍
Josh, this is positive Karma, you've obviously done something good in your life or in a past life that this beauty should come your way! Certainly a keeper if only for the provenance! Sure to be worth even more in a few years time. I considered buying an early SL a few years back but was waiting for them to drop a little more in price but instead they just carried on rising, now their prices are stratospheric and unreachable for me. I'm really a Beemer man having had 3 E21s, an E28 and two E34s but also have a soft spot for the W124s and 190es currently owning a 2.6 190e with a/c, abs, s/r, r/headrests, h/wash/wipe, elec windows all round and a silky 6 cylinder engine that can be smooth and sedate if you choose, or can be swift and quite rapid too. And it's done less mileage than yours at only 208k. Yes I have a white beard btw! The speedo's are notorious for failing on W124s and W201s but mine still works thankfully. Only recently subscribed to this channel, I really like Joe's straight talking and very natural and fluid presentation style, clearly a great communicator and not the least bit pretentious. Would love to see more content on this old 190e and see how far you guys can improve it, but tbh I suspect it wouldn't take much. Great video and banter, glad you did a test drive and swapped drivers. Sure the E36 is gathering a strong following, but it just doesn't have the class or the style of the baby Benz....
😮WOW omg it looks amazing and the bloke who turned it down for 500 pounds must have been crackers, nice car ❤love it
Retro is cool, a Mercedes built before they started cutting costs. One owner 190E stunning we need to see more like this Joe and definitely a follow up video. Somerset looked like the South of France 🇫🇷 ❤
Thanks Julien! Haha, it was a pretty nice day for it 🚙☀️
@Shifting Metal need to bring my Lancia Fulvia down, those lanes look perfect!
These were great cars, I had a 300TE in the mid 90s, that I used as an executive taxi, that was a straight six, with an automatic box, was always enjoyable to drive. - Jess.
Apparently it's had the same mileage of 211,663 miles for every MOT since 2014, apart from 1 MOT where it increased by 20 miles but magically reduced by 20 miles the following year.
Haha speedo cable snap it years ago
Yeah we found that out while filming this 😅 oh well
Wow, what a cheap beauty! Reminds me of my 190D2.5 I once enjoyed. Full options and they all worked.
GREAT CAR I HAVE TWO OF THEM 👍👍LOVE THE 190E ❤️❤️
I had a 190E h reg. , sold it with 240,000 on the clock. Was mint, guy who bought it , was replacing his that he regretted selling with over 400,000 on the clock. They run forever.
Too good. Too good. Too good. Josh you bad boy robbing those lovely old people. At least wasn’t me on the rob in the trade again
Wow what a cool car, like people have said it's had 211, 663 miles on it since 2014 😊 the Mot history makes for some interesting reading. So this could be a 230,000 plus car 👍 She is wearing her miles well ❤
Absolutely must do a follow up and please keep it original 🙏
Back in the 80’s/90’s the manual box was a big no no on one of these. Any Merc had to be auto - the manuals weren’t loved. Merc manual boxes weren’t great and 190’s were never drivers cars. They were the best however.
Lovely old merc,had one new in 1990 in a dark blue,lowered the suspension and put bigger wheels on,looked great but spoiled the ride,also did the wood kit on it too😃
Had a black with cream leather upholstery 'which was practically indestructible' 190E for many years original owner Jason Orange who sold it to my MDs girlfriend Jenny Powell, and then I bought it from her. Loved driving it. A follow up would be great.
I would love to see you restire it and keep it hey it will go up in value
Lovely car! I’ve got a H reg 1.8 auto with 62k on, completely original, paid 10x that for it though..
I love these, proper old school cool! If this was the Cosworth version you'd have a bargain of the century 😁
What a beautiful example! Definitely a lucky day, hope Josh went out to buy a lottery ticket afterwards😂
Please do a follow up on this car.
Hey Josh that old vintage mercedes just needs a romantic home that is going to give it all of its love and respect
WOW what a bargain, please show more on this car
We’ll try
Boy done good!!
I bought a 3 year old 19E0E in 1993. What a fabulous car. The previous owner was a Company and the car had been specced new to come within the company car threshold. It was white and had the 2 litre engine with a manual gearbox. It had optional rear headrests which could be dropped down electrically. The economy was extremely good because of the( unusual) manual gearbox and I could achieve around 40mpg on a run. at the time I was driving from Stroud in Gloucestershire to Leeds every few weeks and it was a great motorway car. In 1996 I replaced it with a c180 Elegance -bad move. That was when the bean copunters got involved with Mercedes.
Keep it restore it show it 😊
Well, that was a bargain for the price,I would leave it OEM and use it,touch up the scratches with paint.someone would snap the car up if you were to sell it.
Wow. Nice and I was the 190 likes 👍
Hi josh and joe,this is a bargain. I would repair that nasty tear on the door panel for starters.Then adress the other small issues such as the speedometer cable new shock absorbers service and tackle the body work imperfections too and keep it for a while.I would also give it an engine service including automatic gearbox fluid change.
Yeah I agree with that John 👍
Massive profit in this, keep it STANDARD saw one sell
2 owner G reg 148000miles nowhere as clean and rigid as this sold for £11500 to collectors.
Follow up video please
According to dvla reg check Josh's mercedes has been stuck on 211663 since the 12th October 2014
It has been stored and not really driven for the majority of that time, but yes it would appear somethings broken there
Good choice!
They did have a manual as standard. The auto was an option that most went for. I’ve had loads but the 190d 2.5 was the best
Did 2.5 and 2.8 if I remember rite
No hands on the steering wheel lol 😆 😂
There is one in my area and I often see it. Is it wrong I dream that it will suddenly be up for sale? I can dream lol
If you do sell it please don't sell to some cu*t who will lower it and put stupid alloys on needs to go to someone who will appreciate it really nice car I think
But what I wanna lower it and put shit wheels on it? 🤣
@@JoshuaJDGray oh no a little bit low I could live with but when u se them slammed it just don't look rite 30 mil is lowest I'd go on one of these each to there own taste but if I had one and was to change wheels I'd go for something still mercedes like the wheels they done on the crosworth version what I call OEM + I do own a modified car but that's a Volvo 240 there much more common than these and not as nice in my opinion as I say tho each to there own what ever you do hope it works out well for you I also own a bone stock h plate ford escort with 17.000 miles on
I’m with you Jamiee, he should keep it standard!
@@ShiftingMetal I hope so I had one when I was only 19 it was a big thing for me back then I begged scraped and saved to buy and put a years insurance on the car it was like my baby loved it unfortunately it was stolen and I dexoded not to go through insurance as it would have messed up my no claims I believe in people get what they deserve so one day the little shit that stole it will suffer at the hands of someone else lucky one still got my very very low mileage escort and my Volvo would be nice some day to get another mercedes to
Quality first Mercedes.Currently own 3 late models.Rog.
Man u will regret selling that , keep it
Agree!
I love old Mercedes but not new ones my preferable era for the sake so would probably be anything from the 1880s 2004
Amazing how young guys are clueless re any car pre circa 2005 and that “cool” is limited to “Beemers, Mercs & Audii’s” 😞
We didn’t say that though did we? My first car was an original Mini Clubman, one of my dream cars is a hillman imp and another is to buy another mk1 Clio 1.8 16v… our taste is pretty varied
@@ShiftingMetal
Sorry, but my definition of cool is more GTV6 rather than Hillman Imp…
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@@ShiftingMetal my first legal car was a R19 16v Chamade PH1. It had that 1.8 16v engine. Was dark blue I loved that car. Comfiest seats ever made, supportive and squidgy lol. I always lusted after the Clio 16v, they were expensive back then
10 times that is still half price with the history, despite the miles
Personally, I would sell on the 36 and keep the merc. I think the the 36 is already at around market peak however the merc is still to appreciate. Also by the sounds of things you E36 needs a lot of work to get it any where near the standard of this merc
Must admit, I’m starting to agree with you 🤷♂️
@@JoshuaJDGray I think the thing is that the money you get from the 190 is not realistically going to be enough to restore something like your e36 to the same quality, I think it would be unwise to go the route of selling the 190 and plowing the money into the e36.
Don’t get me wrong I love my BMWs, but they have already appreciated, where as the 190 still has a long way to go, so in 10 years time I think the gamble will definitely pay off too.
I concur! 👍
It's like a really nice old Barbour jacket.
With shoulder pads
That’s a great metaphor for it!
Please fix it up
My old man had a j reg
Bargain.
omg I would keep it
Me too!
The Johnny Bravo comment 😂😂😂😂
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Hope i get me one
Also an H Reg
What happened to this in the end??
Josh still has it
you should be in no hurry to sell this car, the value is just going to up and up, keep it for a couple of years enjoy the kudos of driving a classic Mercedes, and then cash in
Decent advice, thanks!
Yup. Take the margin. 2500. Nice. You’ll be a fully fledged car trader like many of us yet Josh. Get education first. Then fall into the motor trade occupation back up
1st 🎉🎉what a bargain
It would be tragic to bling/chav this one, don't do it.
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Well done...
I just wouldn't drive it on a beach... it's just an unnecessary exposure to salt...
Driving as slow as they did - it’s a total non issue.
lived in Somerset for the 1st 45years of my life, who you about this beach?
Cool deal that. There like the camels 🐪 of cars and run forever. £350 STEAL
I’d give double the money you paid
I said the same!
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all that spinning around is making me seasick!
Sorry 😂
Would you take £400 for it? With new MOT and the door repaired? Cash waiting.
😂
Give you £375 for it
That’s what I said!
Iv stopped believing all these iv bought a cheap car vids now ,all the car you tubers are posting the same vids in the space of 3 months
i might be wrong but i dont think AMG was part of mercedes at that time they were a modifying company that did upgrades on mercedes
£350 i am jealous