Freightliner Columbia Mercedes pros and cons

pos

 

You won't want to find/buy MBZ parts when the time comes. Drove one, ran so-so...nothing exciting grossing 78K every load

 

POS forgot the caps

 

I hear they are good on fuel, but low on power the year along with the mileage might indicate the truck spent a lot of time in the shop, or at least not working as much as other typical trucks, most 2010 trucks have much more mileage that 450,000, just my opinion.

 

There's a reason Mercedes powered Freightliner's are basically being given away. No one wants them. You can get parts, but it's not easy and most Freightliner dealers don't even stock parts anymore. Everything had to be ordered from the warehouse.

 

As I said before. On the parts end of things, unless you're from the German car side of parts....good luck even looking up, and worse...doing the INEVITABLE job of incessant cross - referencing of parts numbers Daimler has you do.EVERY FREAKING PARTS NUMBER SOMETIMES. The most ###-backwards excuse for cataloging devised. Why I left Freightliner parts.

 

Lots of head gasket issues with those.

 

Head gasket problems, but the engine is quieter that Detroit diesel and you get better MPG...

 

A friend of mine bought a truck like that one last year at an auction and paid 7k for it .
Other than a turbo and some small stuff that you will have on any truck it's been a dang good money maker ... good on fuel too.