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Originally Posted by CWW
If that's the case, you honestly need to stay away from W140s, and go with one of the older ones. They have less bells and whistles, but they are definitely better built.
I have owned several different Mercedes, and in my experience they are expensive cars to own. You can either pay up-front to get one in good condition, or you can pay later at the parts counter. It's pretty much one or the other.
Finding a W140 for $3500 that is perfect and needs no work, well heck, you may as well just play the lottery with those odds. That's my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.
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True, but the main objective here is that the seller is obviously hiding something. I have owned several Mercedes too (74 240D, 85 380SE and 84 190D (all where excellent cars that I did not have to pay an arm/leg for) so good ones at good prices are to be found. Just have to look. I was assuming this 96' was a good one, but obviously some problems are being hidden.
Thanks for the input - perhaps I will stick with a W126. Supposed to look at a nice 300SDL this week.