The point I was trying to make is that at around 10+ years and 100,000 miles, these cars start to have problems that are difficult to diagnose and expensive to fix. You should not buy one if you can't afford to write it off or pay a $5,000 repair bill to keep it on the road with no guarantee that at new problem won't surface next month.

But like I said,they are great cars when they work right. I paid almost nothing for my coupe, fixed about $1000 worth of "minor" problems and it was great for 18 months. But this stalling problem was scary. No codes, no diagnostics that made sense, nobody willing to stand up and say what would fix it. Every sentence started with "Well, you could try ..."

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Chuck Taylor
Falls Church VA
'66 200, '66 230SL, '96 SL500. Sold: '81 380SL, '86 300E, '72 250C, '95 C220, 3 '84 280SL's '90 420SEL, '72 280SE, '73 280C, '78 280SE, '70 280SL, '77 450SL, '85 380SL, '87 560SL, '85 380SL, '72 350SL, '96 S500 Coupe