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Originally Posted by tyl604
Yesterday I happened to notice a fairly new (to me) Mercedes in the shopping center lot with the top most piece of its grill missing. How can that happen I wonder? When I get closer I see that that piece of grill is no longer part of a single, wholly metal surround grill - but it is a silly, thin piece of chrome that is attached to backing to make it look like a real grill. Arrgh!!!! It might not even be real chrome; who knows?
I never knew that Mercedes stopped fabricating real grills for their cars. When did this happen? Why? What happened to the quality that we all see in our 80's cars?
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A bit of a secondhand story. My Dad, who lives in a larger U.S. metro area, has a neighbor who is head service mechanic at Benz dealer. The neighbor has two cars.... an 80's W126 and a new Toyota. He says he wouldn't ever buy one of the newer Benz cars: they are simply repair bills waiting to happen.