is it possible that the later w124 declined in quality during those years, or is me.....
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Just about anyone familiar with MBs will tell you that the last good ones were built prior to '92. The marketing department started getting involved in building the cars instead of just selling them......marketing wanted more features and toys and didn't give the engineers the budget to build the cars right. So now you get MBs that just aren't as good as the older models, especially after the newer MBs get some miles and years on them.