What year is the car? What is the mileage? What is the asking price? How does everything else work? Check everything, including climate control, cruise control, sun roof, windows, etc.

Take it to a known good MB indy in your area for a pre purchase inspection.

Can you get access to all the records from day one on the car?

How do you know it wac actually driven for 10,000 miles? Is there records of 2 or 3 oil changes with in that 10,000 miles?

Reason I ask all this, is I am finding all sorts of ham fisted repairs done by a "reputable" indy. Case in point...record shows "repaired a/c hose leak" Repair was really a splicing of the high side line that runs under the front of the engine. When I replaced the compressor (two months after buying the car), that "repair" popped while driving in the nice August heat Texas is famous for. I had the hose rebuilt for $20. The indy should have done that.

As we hear lots of times on this forum, "Nothing is more expensive than a cheap MB"

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