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Squiggle Dog · #10 05-20-2019, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by marco5

Absolutely amazing job Squiggle Dog, so much attention to detail. Your car is approaching full mechanical restoration and is worth some good money.

Just curious, what have you spent so far ball park with the restoration? You may want to have it insured/appraised for that amount. Just in case some moron rear ends you or something.

I added up the stack of receipts that I've kept since I got the car in early 2010, and it came out to over $13,000. That's including parts I've purchased from wrecking yards and eBay. Most of the genuine Mercedes parts I've ordered have been at a 15-30% discount off of MSRP. I have done all my own labor except for possibly only alignments, mounting and balancing tires, and rebuilding the injectors. If I had paid someone to do the work, the cost would no doubt have been exponentially larger as not only would I be paying $60-$100 per hour (?) but I'd also be paying a mark-up on the parts.

I guess $13,000 isn't terrible considering it's going to be nearly mechanically perfect with everything working as it should and every bit as reliable as a new car. But that's putting in a lot of time and labor. It's also in dire need of paint and bodywork, and that's easily going to cost a few thousand.