As rightfully stated my M.B.DOC (as usual), the W124s 4-matic are EXTREMELY problematic and EXPENSIVE to repair.

General advice on those models is don't walk away from them: RUN!

The owner of the M.B. dealership here imported one 300E 4matic for his wife in 1992. After several failures and repairs the car was returned to the factory.

You cannot just turn off the 4matic and drive. The system can be turned off just momentarely as it goes into a kind of "emergency" driving mode.

Donīt mind if the system is running perfect now or has been recently serviced. It will eventually fail again (sooner than later, be assured).

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]