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Old 09-02-2004, 09:20 PM
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buying advice SL300 w107

can anyone tell me what to see/ask/check when buying a mercedes 300sl w107 (year 85-89)?

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do you think 100 000 miles or a bot more is too much? even when the car was regularly serviced?

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Old 09-02-2004, 11:50 PM
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This should answer your questions.

I posted this about 2 years ago and it still holds true today!
Paste this in your browser and read what was said by me and others!

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Old 09-03-2004, 11:25 AM
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Tom & jfg:

Sure wish I had found Tom's post before I bought my 350SL. Such a valuable check-list. I have had no mechanical problems at all except for a leaky injector. Fortunately the PO of my car was a well-off fanatic who spared no expense at maintenance. That said, I would only add the following advice. Ensure you get a car that has a pristine interior. Also, the HVAC systems are frequent problems, and the older more simple style w/o climate control is not immune either. The mechanical problems can be expensive, to be sure, and if you can avoid them or anticipate them with Tom's good advice, you are money ahead. Even paint work is not a show stopper.

Basically, any competent shop can do mechanical repairs and paint work. However, some of the interior work is hard to do. Not seats or door panels, but dashes, consoles, A-pillar and hardtop B-pillar soft items, basically everything that age and heat can destroy, most of these trim parts are simply not available in popular colors unless it is black. Some are not available at all. And many trim shops are total imcompetents when it comes to taking apart and reassembling a quality machine like an SL. Once you have detailed your SL with shiny paint and reliable running, that cracked dask, or crumbling crash padding will nag at you as a reminder that you baby is not perfect. And an HVAC problem can bedeveil you as much as a bad running engine.

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