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Originally Posted by joegolden
Hey guys! Hope everyone’s doing well.
I recently sold my 98 c230 to a gentleman in Tennessee.
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I sold the car and all has been fine and dandy until he has now lost the only key to the car. He is texting me in a fit telling me he cannot get a key made for the car.
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Did you get the title transferred into his name or did he just take the car and title? I'm wondering if he is a car flipper and didn't transfer the title into his name in order to save sales tax / hide he is an unlicensed dealer.
Tell him to call his local MB dealer, no use you getting in the middle of this ordeal. He will need the title in his name and his proof of ID. If you " fix " this for him, the calls for every little problem will never end. And when you do fix a problem , he will be ungrateful complaining that you sold him a bad 21 year old car.
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Originally Posted by joegolden
Just tow it to the Mercedes dealer and pay through the nose? Or is there another good alternative? Thanks so much in advance.
Joe
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Call the dealer for your other modern cars and say " all keys lost and you need replacement / reprogramming " then get back to us how expensive a MB key is in comparison.
Just because older MB cars are inexpensive on the used car market does not compel the maker or dealer to drop prices accordingly. There is a reason values drop so dramatically, I'll let you guess why.