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cphilip · #25 12-13-2008, 05:27 PM

IIRC there is a slight difference between upper and lower exterior color. Two tone to a very slight degree. But its not terrifically distinct difference.

Yea sorry about the newby Leather reference. I do prefer the MB Tex too. It actually is nicer than the leather. Feels better to me. Has all the power options in the seats though.

It is a clean one. I first (well in the process) offered $2500 on it and would love to stay there. He told me yesterday he has $3400 in it and would take that. I said I would think on it and, of course, need to relook at it hard again. Verify for myself the wiring was good. He is, today, driving it with a bit more oil in it to test that out. I will probably sleep on it, hear what he has to say about the Oil fill test and decide if I want to offer $3000 and see where it goes from there.

The only other color I am keen on is White with Cream or Mushroom interior. I have looked at now five cars. Three of them white. All higher mileage and not in as near clean condition. All but one had indications of Head Gasket leak perhaps. One of those with 4 matic and a busted front boot. A real list of knicks and things to fix. Wasn't worth $1500 that I offered and he though it was worth way more. Most of the ones I have looked at or talked to the seller about were in the $2000 to $3500 range. One of those was over 230K with no documents. Not too torn up but not mint. A recent one I looked at had documents of new wiring and head gasket some 60K earlier in its life and it was $4900 and it sold while I was thinking about it. No big loss there but was a nice well kept car. Not as mint as this though. And I did talk to a guy about a white and blue one. Just couldn't get interested in that thing at all. And one last one I was thinking about looking at sounded and looked good in pictures but had had its "motor replaced" according to the owner. And it had a "front seal leak" also according to her mechanic who would fix it for $400 and she just couldn't afford to put any more money in it. She wanted $2800 for it. But the whole story sort of turned me off. Didn't make sense and was going to have to go see for myself. Might still go though. Could be something simple. I can't get much out of her as she doesn't seem to understand the technical questions. It could be that it had a new head gasket not a motor as she said he charged her $2000 for the job. The front seal could be the Timing cover gasket.

This one here, however, is the neatest tidiest of them all. Except for that head gasket it would already be in my driveway... but it still might be the one.