Nice 300E! Mine is a 1990 also. Ours has been awesome....have had it 1.5 years and driven it over 15k so far with no major issues/never been stranded. The M103 is a smooth nice engine.

I just redid a lot of the suspension on ours and now it handles extremely well.

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