I drove my '91 300-SEL to a local MB dealer for parts a few years ago. It's a clean car.

As I walked to the parts dept. I passed a number of employees who looked at me like I was dragging the ebola virus into the dealership.

A year or so later I called the dealerships service dept. and inquired into having them do some trouble-shooting. I ended up talking to the shop foreman who had the same attitude I had already been exposed to the year before.

This problem doesn't exist with just Mercedes-Benz dealers. It extends to dealerships for many other car mfgs. as well. Kids coming out of auto tech schools today have no clue what a carburetor or OBD-I are. Techs who work in the indy shops are becoming far and few in between - getting old - retiring.

If you own one of these relics and plan to keep it, you had best brush up on or develop whatever skills are needed to keep it running.

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Mike Murrell
1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"