If it helps to know you are not alone with this sort of sentiment,...the wiring harnesses in some of the 124's & 140's aren't worthy of a $40k+ car, but Benz used them anyway, and to add insult to injury, denied there is anything wrong with them.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D