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2quik6 · #9 05-11-2007, 05:14 PM

Thanks for all the replies and helpful info this gives me alot to go on. I am taking it to another shop for a second opinion. I have no relationship with the shop we took it to, my stepdaughter does as she used to work there and her Dad has 2 80's diesel MB he has serviced there so we figured they would be fair, but the guy that I talked to that looked at the car is very young and my stepdaughter did not get along with him so I'm not weighing what he said very heavy, and if the shop owner lets him talk to customers with the attitude he had when he talked to me then I don't care to ever go back.
The next shop is actually a very good aquaintance in the local Buick club, services almost 75% of the turbo Buicks in teh club and has some LT1 cars he races as I do. I did not know his shop actually started out as a MB repair so I just chatted with him and he knows these cars very well it sounds so it will go there in a couple weeks.

See if I can answer the questions/comments so far:
230/8, yes the radio had been replaced and it works off and on. I've always used the green stuff, Prestone in every car I have and never had an issue, never heard of it eating plastic parts and the entire rad tank ends on most new cars are plastic. This radiator threw me for a loop since there was no top filler cap..only the overflow bottle seemed strange.

John, yes I agree with that, I alway try to do most everything myself because of that, but I'm just out of time this summer it seems.

450slc and GSSmith, great advice on the seals, yeah its not my #1 concern since its not leaving any on the ground. She also has a '84 300D diesel to drive for now, has been her 1st and only car for the last 7 years with almost 300k on the clock, so I think we'll be hanging on to that for a while. Yes, its alot of driving and I'm trying to encourage her to keep the diesel, her dad has 2 80's diesels also and he has the relationship with the shop still. The guy that talked to me about the car was just too imature IMO for what he was claiming and his attitude saying it. For her graduation I told her I would get her a car, anyone she wanted...her response was a mid 80's SL or a 70's Trans Am...either one of those IMO doesn't make a very good daily driver, but that was all she'd have and the MB being a lot safer stronger built car we went that direction, plus her Dad would not agree about the TA.
The turbo Buick was totally out of the question...I tried that route, her Mom said that was waayyy tooo much power for her, and I'd have to agree with that...not to mention their stolen rate is pretty high now.
So, hopefully she'll keep the 300D and not drive this one near that much...it is a beautiful car that I hope she can keep a long time.

But at the same time, I did not do all of my homework on these that I should have before buying this one due to hectic times and quit frankly got tired of trying to find the perfect car and she liked this one so we got it. Appearance wise the car has been kept nice.

FYI, the second shop which I know from the Buick club said he could fix the leaks but they would just start leaking again and the heads leaking a little is common too, he could fix that as well but it would start leaking again, if its not leaking enough to leave drips and there's no lose of compression not to worry about it...this is something the other guy made a big production out of so that shows his honesty plus he's considered a friend in all the local Buick community. He's just going to evaluate fixing them once he sees the car.