I stopped to look at a 1998 E320 Wagon today. I want a gas wagon, bad. This one looked decent from the street.

Owner came out and we started chatting as I looked over the car. The car began to make its paintwork clear. Said salesman told me:

"I've been in the business 40 years, and I've never cared about the bodywork."

then proceeded to tell me,

"You know 65% of new cars leave the assembly line and go straight into a bodyshop for a repair before they hit the showroom"

I asked, if Mercedes Benz filled their fenders with a quart of Bondo from the factory?

He said that it was a womans car and bodywork is to be expected, and that luckily the body shop managed to save the OEM fender.

My reply was I would prefer a replacement fender. The fender looked horrendous the bondo had hardly been sanded and the fender was only half repainted in a totally different shade of silver.

Upon closer inspection all 4 fenderwells had rust starting.

I got an LOL, you guys may too.