on friday we had a car come in to the shop for a prepurchase inspection, the car was reported to the buyer that it was a european graymarket import, which is kind of unusual for a 2003 C320, we were suspicious from that alone. living in san diego i thought the buyer might have it confused with a mexico car which we see from time to time and do infact appear "euro", but it clearly was a california car had all california emissions labels. over all the car was nice and had basically zero defects, after all it was only 9k miles, another red flag, i was reviewing the report we generated after scanning the car and i just happened to notice the vin generated from the report was different from the vin on the car and on the pink slip!! i went to inspect and the door sticker looked unusual and the vin tag at the windshield was not centered like it should be, i told the perspective buyer and he said mercedes had no record of the vin number displayed, both came back "clean" through carfax. i thought it was a little much to report to the local authorities, but now i am thinking different.

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1967 250 S
1967 280SE
1968 250S
1971 280 SE
1973 220
1974 280 S
1975 450 SEL
1976 220 D
1979 300SD
1983 300 SD
1985 230 TE euro
1986 280SL
1986 500 SEL euro
1986 190E 2.3
1990 300 SE
2003 C230 K
2004 C230 K
1987 560SEL
1987 300SDL now in canada
2005 C230
1998 C43 AMG Sold to DON
1993 190E 2.6
300TD Former daily driver Totaled
current:
R320 CDI
Ram 2500 Cummins