Oh I know. I thought I was careful though. I knew all about the W140s and have owned several W126 models and never no problems. I thought I would be OK IF I purchased a well maintained, 1-owner W140 that had all of the service records. Plus, all of the big things had been done such as A/C evaporator, blower motor, heater core, engine wiring harness and much more. Then when the MB tech that had worked on the car for years told me that the car was mechanically solid, I thought I would be OK, at least for awhile. Guess not.
Yeah, the car developed a problem a few weeks ago, but it was minor and only when first started (basically only like it was starving for fuel or flooding on a "hot start" then it would go away, I guess I should not have waited so long. I was hoping to wait until I could have the motor mounts done and have it all done at once since the tech doing it is usually backed up like 2 weeks and it is hard to get in there.
All I know to do now is take it to the shop asap and see what they say, hopefully nothing major, if it is, lesson learned to never buy a W140 no matter how good the PPI sounds.
Once repaired I don't know if I will even keep it or not, I may sell it.
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Originally Posted by Rob Pruijt
It may be something else, hard to say from here, have a tech look at it.
If you are not very mechanically inclined buying a 20 year old top end and very expensive luxury car for $3300 may have been a bit risky decision . Things will go wrong with older cars and W140’s are not the easiest to fix.
You wrote that your car developed problems several weeks ago, and it seems that you were hoping they would go away. That is not how it works with cars, most problems get worse, to the point that it breaks down completely and is getting very expensive to repair.
Rob
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