The car has 210K miles. The drive train is good and it burns some oil but not visibly. The body has a few dents but no external rust. The wheel wells have some fiberglass patches to fix a few rust holes.

Here are the issues:

1) I discovered partial rust-out on a front frame piece. Someone lifted the car at that spot a while ago and cracked the undercoating. It has to be repaired.

2) Timing chain was last replaced 100K miles ago. Its not making noises yet though, but its due.

3) Seat leather is hard and worn through in some places.

4) Back window leaked at one time, and was resealed with unknown rust problem still underneath.

I'm not in love with the car but its a good solid ride. I'm not interested in replacing it but I don't want to start spending big bucks to keep it running. It will never be a valuable MB I don't think. My first impulse is just to keep it safe to drive which means repairing the frame part before the rust spreads. Then maybe a chain replacement, after that just kinda let it go until it dies. Any thoughts?

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