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Originally Posted by deanyel
I had already quit thinking about an E430 when I heard how much the manufacturing cost of the 3 valves had been lowered compared to the 119s.
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I actually prefer the M119 engine to the newer M112 / M113 3-valve per cylinder engines. Thus, I was initially leaning heavily toward the E420.
What ended up swaying me to buy an E430 was the inability to install the Command navigation in the E420. Steve Krabbenborg, of the MBenzNL.com website, does Command installations all over Europe and the U.S. I e-mailed him and he responded that the Command came out in 2000, but could be retrofitted back to 1998 models. It could not be installed in 1997 models.
He can also retrofit the 2000-2002 revised instrument cluster and steering wheels into 1998-1999 models, but not 1997 models.
Since I planned on doing all of the above if I bough a pre-2000 model, I ruled out the '97 E420.