Originally Posted by joegolden

OK so I had someone reach out about my pristine 200 e430 for sale...I had it listed online for $3200. Only had $2000 in the car just looking for a quick profit I enjoyed it for the for five months that I’ve owned it.

A guy reaches out to me and tells me he has a 2001 E3 20 that his mother drives in he might be interested in trading I told him no I wasn’t interested but he drove the car up today when he was coming to check out my E4 30.

The guy is a technician actually a manager over the technicians at a large Mercedes store in Atlanta and he has maintain this E3 20 for his mother for 5 years. She put 70,000 miles on it since they bought it in 2014. The car came out of Virginia and has a little bit of rust in the rear wheel fender arches I looked under the car and did not really see any rust anywhere else. I also looked at the front spring perches and they looked great. Is there anywhere else on a w210 that turns to rust?

Being in Georgia I just never have to deal with a rusty car. I traded him the E3 20+ $2400 which worked out great for me I have a good daily driver that has heated seats Michelin tires and has been maintained by a Mercedes tech for five years. It runs and drives great it just leaves a little to desire in the appearance arena I may drive the crap out of this thing and I won’t feel bad about drafting people and touching the rear bumper