Mike,

You are correct. I presently have two of them. I have an 88 300SEL and a 90 300SEL. One MB is the same as the next to me after having worked on and owned so many over the years. These 300s seem like pretty nice cars and fairly snappy in performance considering the weight. I can't tell you about the Calif version, because oddly enough both of mine are 49 state cars. A Calif. car would make trouble code extraction easy, because you just push a little button and count the blinks. I kept getting two codes on the 90. TN signal incorrect and oxygen sensor shorted. After carefully checking the system using the official MB diagnostic manuals, I had to replace the MAS unit and the main computer to clear the codes. There was nothing wrong with the system but the faulty units were keeping the system in FOM.

Peter

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