I want to take this opportunity to pass along some info I received from someone who has done business with Schiff and has seen the quality of the reprints in comparison to the originals. According to them the quality of the reprints isn't even close. The testament to their quality was from Barry Schiff himself after I e-mailed him about them. It doesn't sound as though they are "authorized" either. Let me reference the closing comment in the response to my first post-BUYER BEWARE. I'm new to this site having just purchased my 1989 260e last August; so I'm still getting my feet wet as far as MB parts and related stuff. Tom