Hi everybody. I am new to this forum, but I think anybody who things $ 3,000 is too much to spend on a 12 year old MB with 150,000 miles on the clock at the DEALER is naive. From my own 30 years MB ownership experience that is relatively nothing. And no need to call the use car dealer CROOK for selling an old car, it is up to the purchaser to decide what he wants and how far he wants to go to rebuild such an old car.