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Old 07-19-2008, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by duxthe1 View Post
In the shop we joke around that you can take any random 140 car and find where it needs 1000$ in repairs on the spot. Better than 90% of the time it's true. We have customers that have bought used ones and spent over 10k$ to make it road worthy. You'd have a hard time giving me one.

Not that I dislike the 140, I just call it job security.
I joke that I can do that with any W126. I have yet to see one on a used car lot no matter how nice where I couldn't find a couple grand worth of "stuff" it needed.

Buy a late stripped S320, more simple and lots of the bugs worked out.
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