Was at my indy today getting a couple minor things done. In the shop was a W140 that was in the RE-construction phase after having the evap. replaced.

OMG!! If I ever had to pay the $2K to have that done, I'd feel guilty for paying so little!

The level of dissasembly was mind numbing. Indy said the 140's were pretty bad about losing evaps compared to the 126's like mine....thank goodness.

He mentioned that he had taken pix all thru the work to show the owner in case the owner gave him ANY grief over the amount of the repair bill.

To anyone who thinks this job is overrated and shouldn't cost this much...you are mistaken, is all I can say.

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Chris
1985 300SD - 'Grace' (198K mi.)
2018 Honda Civic Sport
2018 Honda CRV LX
2010 Honda Fit Sport (RIP)
2013 Honda Accord Sport (Sold)
1996 Lexus LS400 (Retired)
1995 Ford Contour SE (Retired)
1976 Porsche 914 (Sold)
1972 Datsun 240Z (RIP)

I pulled out the AC evaporator in my soon to be daughter's 85 300D. Removed cosole and dash also replacing the entire wiring harness.

When my daughter saw the car with every thing out she said with a quiver in her voice "hope you can put it back"

This one looked like dmorrisson's pic in a recent thread.

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1980 300SD Manganese Brown Metallic Clearcoat 248k
1979 300SD White 148 k
1984 300D Silver project car for daughter
1982 300D wrecked
1980 300SD 310K not running