A friend of a friend has a C280 1996 with a broken exhaust camshaft. Apparently she took it to a shop that is now out of bussiness for an oil leak, $1000 later the car does not run and the guy closes his shop.
Another shop has ripped the engine apart enough to expose the cam sprockets and says they don't want to tackle the job.
Here are my questions. Is this an interference engine? Does it have hydraulic cam followers? If valves are bent whats the book rate to re and re the head?