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Originally Posted by rchase
Brian,
With as much good information as this board has there is a lot of bad information as well. Don't let the horror stories of the 140 scare you off. Its really a wonderful car. Many of the horror stories are from people who did not understand their cars and took them to mechanics who also did not understand their cars.
Robert Chase
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I do worship my W140! I think it is the best designed, best built, best featured and best overall car ever built up to date. I would NOT trade it for anything and Mercedes nor anyone else will ever built a car like it again.
In terms of maintenance, my S 500 L has proved (as Jim Forgione always says too) to be cheaper to run and more reliable than all my previous W124Ts and W123T wagons combined.
The W140 issues about the A/C evap, door closing assist pump, rear window regulators, and early production model faults are not horror stories, they are just plain and real facts about certain design faults which irritates some owners. Other owners like me understand that nothing can be perfect and such minor incoviniences are just some bumps in the road of the real honor of owning the best production car ever manufactured.