Well it is a Mercedes if you wanted a car with no problems you should have bought Lexus but then there is no soul in that car. I had 1993 Lexus GS300 with over 300K miles all original before I SOLD it yes it was SOLD with over 300K miles and it still runs and it is a gasoline car.

I have to agree with your lexus story.. my ES300 has 128K on the clock and never had any issues, it still runs nearly perfectly to this day (I credit my own maintenance). It is definately lacking a soul.

My MB on the other hand is full of soul but has its little issues once and again, but it is to be expected from a 31 year old car (31 years and 44 days to be exact). They are just so well built that they are fun to work on, sometimes I get excited to find something to fix on it as it is such a joy (compared to my chevy and the fords that I have turned wrenches on).

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". . .back before accountants designed cars"

-Current Stable-
'78 MB 450SL-C 107.024.12.020783 #3840 <Kayleen>
'85 FORD F250 6.9L Diesel <Allison>
'98 Lexus ES300 <Rachel>
Long Gone...
'74 Chevy G10...........................'99 GMC Yukon 4X4
'83 Chevy Suburban 6.2 diesel .....'99 SAAB 9-5
'90 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS............. '01 Chevy Tahoe
'98 Nissan Altima .......................'02 MB ML320
'88 Chevy Suburban V2500 4X4 6.2 diesel

Better yet, get a 2003 Caddy lke my inlaws. I was going to check the tranny fluid, think I found the cap. Check manual, yup thats the cap buried under air filter and large group of wires. Manual say better off taking to dealer to check tranny fluid level. The the head gaskets that go, then engine and heads aren't rebuildable. Wonder why gm is in trouble?

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.