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That is a W166 chassis. Early to mid 201x ML350.
You are looking at a clip job (salvage rebuild where 2 bodies butt welded together) and patched and repainted.
Butt welds are notoriously weak.
There is no transverse factory seam at that location in a 166 chassis.
The roof panel is one piece front to back and so is the floor pan. You can see it on EPC.
It wouldn’t split clean like that if it was one piece of steel, it would be completely deformed at the break.
I guarantee the embedded VINs don’t match front and back on this thing.
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2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)
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