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Originally Posted by augusta
To answer your orginal question, I think if you maintain the 98 correctly it will be a dependable auto. I have not had any problems with mine. I do maintain it by the book....if fact better than the book, I change oil (Mobil 0-40) every 5,000 miles.
I think at ~$14,000 it is a very good value.
Augusta
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And so do I!
98 was the first model year for the W163...and with every new model comes its share of bugs.
I have a 99 and it probably shares the same woes since it took at least a year for design flaws to get identified and corrected.
But the vast majority of problems were corrected under warranty, and the remainder probably thereafter. I believe 99.99% of the ML issues manifested themselves by 60K.
Consider that most owners unfamiliar with MB longevity assume that a vehicle is pretty much trade-in fodder when it reaches 60K...couple that with the fear of some mortgage-draining repair down the road with no reasonable warranty package as protection, and you have some nice MBs with hundreds of thousands of miles of good use left in them, going for a song!
Do have the vehicle examined thoroughly by a trusted technician, and understand that MB quality problems are most prevalent with models of this era...in other words, "it ain't no Honda"!
