1987 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL - $5600 (Clayton, DE)

This car I found out is located in Philly which is closer than DC so I decided to go take a look at it this Sunday. The ad says NOTHING about the car, so I e-mailed Mike who told me to call him.

AT&T's horrible service mixed which his horrible service because he lives in the boonies here is what I gathered from our conversation.

He knows almost nothing about the car (awesome), his boss that owns the used dealership had this as his personal car. He had carfax information which had Mercedes Dealership service information from 2004 and 2007, this is what I got through the crappy cell phone call:

2002, 2004, 2007ish

• Drive Belt
• Tensioner
• Starter
• Battery
• Voltage Regulator
• Fluids (not saying much)

The car was bought October 5th 2007 (by his boss), car obviously was worked at exclusively at a Mercedes dealership (from what I gathered that's why the Carfax had service information on it). The car had 123,xxx miles on it in 2007 and now has roughly 13,xxx more on it (136,xxx).

From what I gathered right before the call ended, it is located at Debo Brothers Auto Sales in Philly.

What I noticed from the photos (sixtwo I can thank you for this skill although someone may find more interesting finds). The passanger fog light lens is cracked (I'll probably end up replacing the whole headlight assemblies), the paint looks good all around except for on the bumper where it appears someone forgot the SDL had 4 more inches when backing up.

I asked Mike if he could find out through his boss what cooling work has been done to the car in the last 5 years (fan clutch, radiator, water pump etc.) and if to his knowledge has the car overheated? To which he did not have an answer for.

What do you guys think? I value the opinions of you guys highly as you already know.

EDIT: I want to thank James for hooking me up with his meticulous checklist he created; I converted it to a Google Document and made it editable so the collective knowledge of this forum can add/edit/amend it.

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