Some early builds do prematurely fail, unfortunately.

However, I have been lucky with mine so far. It is a 97 C280 produced late 1996 and has not had any uprgrades done to it and is still going strong at 130k miles.

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Ali Al-Chalabi

2001 CLK55
1999 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins Diesel
2002 Harley-Davidson Fatboy
Merlin Extralight w/ Campy Record