Main expenses were the brakes, emissions snafu, and just miscellaneous stuff here and there. A little "deferred maintenance" from previous owner when I got it with about 140K miles, then did OK for about 30000 miles before this disastrous run.

Picked it up today, good news was it started, bad news is I rolled the window down and the motor is broken and it won't go back up. I'm sure that's many hundreds of dollars, but I am thinking about pushing the car off a cliff in the middle of nowhere to put it out of its misery.

Anyway, it's only money. It's a big setback, and I resent Mercedes for not making a quality product, but at least I know never to touch them again.