Thanks folks!
M.B.Doc mentioned that the first year of any model can be troublesome, hope it is not the case here.
Had not been for the tight budget (and my ignorance of the above) I'd had chosen a newer one, maybe 1998-2000.
Still waiting to hear from the insurance about my wrecked 300CE. It has been almost 3 weeks since then.
btw: kudo to the photographer of the pictures on eBay. In reality it is not soooo beautiful
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