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Originally Posted by Col.Klink
Mercedes as well as all vehicles today as well as most anything other than a pet Rock are designed to fall apart after a few years and the Replacement parts ( IF AVAILABLE) are priced so you will most likely go buy a complete new unit and get cash back to boot although peeps do not realize it is their own Money they get back . Cars are Manufactored not Built as they used to be .If you can service these vehicles yourself then you can drive a luxury auto for a lot less than the Smuck who dished out the initial Shocking Sticker Price and lost 80 per cent of it in a few years .Buy two or three for patrs and Smile and wave at the Poor Folks driving the New Ones they can't afford... 
Designed Obsolescence..... built like Diapers and Garbage Bags to de-compose in the landfills of tomorrow. |
I don't think they all fall apartand/or have the nasty recurring issues like the evap core etc...which on my particular car that I formerly owned, was fixed twice...both times at MB dealers.
Don't think that if you are looking at one of these that if you see the evap core has been done you are out of the woods..it can and does break again..trust me
anyway..looking at the higher end Lexus and infiniti vehicles that have 150K or so miles on them now...sure they may be expensive to fix..but the don't have near the shop time..in fact that LS400 from the late 90's astounds me with its realibility...I have been told by some that have owned them for several years that they never got their money back from the extended warranty they bought...which I think is very interesting
For me..I paid about $2000 for the 24 month warranty when bought mine in the late 90's and it paid almost $20,000 in claims
Warren
1992 300SD(sold)
2000 BMW 740I
Columbus Ohio