If you're willing to innovate, never. For example, Steele Rubber Products and others offer weatherstrip that you can make work. A broken bracket can be fabricated. The list goes on. You may have to abandon the idea of keeping your Mercedes ALL Mercedes but I say it's better to have it on the road with some aftermarket bits than to send it to Korea to turn into Hyundais and Kias (no disrespect to those makes but you get my drift). The engines live pretty much forever, rusty bodies can be welded up, interiors can be sewn up, and the rest can be worked around. I think my point is that as long as you love your 'Benz it's becoming time to turn into hot rodders, not to modify the car for performance but to make it work on to the NEXT century!


Dan