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Here's how I look at it...
The single largest cost of buying a Mercedes is the depreciation. After that, we lay out cash for gasoline and insurance. Lastly, we have maintenance and repair costs. On a per mile basis, changing the brake fluid and coolant every other spring is cheap. REALLY cheap in the grand scheme of owning one of these cars.
I reduce my operating costs by doing most of my own maintenence, but the other reason is so I know the work is done to my own standard.
Our own 190E is 15 years old. It runs great, and is a great car. It's not worth much anymore, but through MB's maintenance regiment, we've got nearly 400,000km's of solid running out of it, and it has many more miles left.
It works.
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