"damn that list is enough to scare you away form buying MB!!"
It is exactly 30 years that I am driving MB, the single lesson that I have learned so far is that "M" of Mercedes stands for Maintenance . I owned two S class MB's, the last one was 300SD 81, this car pretty much brought me down to my knees.
The SD was truely a beauty parked in my drveway but it had so many problems that just left me speechless. Transmisson was rebuilt 7 times and still not working right, endless vacuum problems, sunroof and rear windshield leaking, AC controls pretty much nonfunctional, the front end needed total rebuild and anywhere that I parked this car, black oil all over the pavement.
I sold the car for $650, and what a relieeeeeeeeeeeeeef.

Vahe
240D 77/350K