Hello all. I am new to this forum as well as to the Mercedes community. A little about the vehicle, it's a bought from a dealer new 1985 500SEL it now has 140K on the odometer. It belongs to my Father and Mother-in-law. My Father in law is a retired Mercedes mechanic and has performed all of the maint. on the car since new. The car has not been abused in anyway,as a matter of fact the windows have never been rolled down,AC has never been used at all (I know thats a bad thing) always garaged and religously washed and detailed. About three years ago he suffered a stroke that confined him to a wheel chair. Needless to say the car has been garaged ever since. Now my mother in law wants to give us the car but for some reason she swears that it needs 10K worth of work to get it road worthy she is not even remotely close to being car maint savvy I dont know where she is getting this idea from It does need a battery. The car ran perfectly until they parked it the garage and now it just sits there collecting dust. What could cause 10K worth of damage??? she did say that the steering is stiff and might need a new power steering pump, does a new powersteering pump with installation run 10K? and would you guys and gals consider this a good reason to just give up on this car and send it to the junk yard? she says she will pay up to 2K to get the car up and running but not the 10K which makes perfect sense, I still dont know where she gets the 10K figure What do you guys and gals think? keep or junk?