Experience report S300TD over almost 8 years/everyday the 1st repair

Experience report My father drives an S 300 TD year of construction 4/1998. We bought the car and picked it up in Stuttgart. In the meantime he ran exactly 110,000 km. A great car! When you drive you don’t hear the diesel bit. Even current V6 Audi diesel can’t keep up with it (a colleague drives a completely new 3.0 TDI). In the stand you can unfortunately hear the diesel (there is the Audi 3.0 TDI quieter…), but as soon as you start, you no longer hear diesel noise. I over this 110,000 km with smooth 10.0 liters. Top! Yesterday was the first reperture on the car! The exhaust was rusted through. Weird, after only about 8 years…..and in short distance traffic the car was hardly used. Well. Otherwise there was nothing. No defects, no repairs! Not even the brake discs or pads had to be renewed until today. (Remember 110,000 km mileage!) We were at Mercedes for inspection a few months ago and even those could It’s hard to believe that it’s still supposed to be the first brake discs or pads At the beginning the car had used a little oil…but that’s also gone back a lot. The driving performance is quite ok, you can get ahead very quickly. And a car to race is certainly not an S-Class. Who wants to buy something else. By the way, top speed according to Tacho are smooth 220 km/h, then it is regulated. Super comfort offers the car even after 8 years. And no bisc All the top. Let’s keep it going!