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Originally Posted by elchivito
I trust the mechanic, he's worked on our W123 and all of our japanese vehicles and has some high dollar MBZ restorations going on for paying customers. He fixes lots The seller is a crook, but the car is on consignment from a local retired geezer couple. I could tease out their names pretty easily. I just got a call from the guy who said if I want to, come and get it and keep it overnight. I could easily get a second opinion from another mechanic nearby who is MBZ trained and is generally too expensive for me. An hour's labor wouldn't be too much to pay. I'd have to have the spousal unit drive it and say yea or nay and then proceed from there. I'm reading good things about that car but am a bit leery of all those bells and whistles. I don't need a car to pester me with cluster warnings that an overhead lamp is out.
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You won't get that. The lamp malfunctions are all for external bulbs. The PCBs for the tail lamps can wear out and need a little cleanup with some additional solder and/or new lamp holders. The headlamp and foglamp wiring is marginal so you might have to replace that (there are repair kits available). The drivetrains are solid so long as they're properly maintained. The spring perches are an expensive repair, too, and the earlier ones were a bit worse about that. There are some quirky things that arise, but they are quite rare. The AC stuff is really costly to repair, condenser failures aren't common but they do happen and less frequently it's the evaporator core, which on a car of that vintage nearly totals it if you're paying dealer rates for labor. The W210 is nothing like the W220, and those bells and whistles are more prone to failure and they cost more to rectify.
If you trust the mechanic, read through the common issues list referenced above and then formulate some questions to ask the mechanic. Obviously if he didn't even look at some of the things that doesn't help you.