Congats. The W202 is a great chasis. Have fun with it. It's a perfect aroud town car for the Maryland/DC area (Odenten is near BWI, right?). It piles on the miles effortlessly and cheaply, but is still very much a Mercedes. As you look at its various systems in detail, it will very much be like your W124, but it will handle so much better.... well not so much "better" but ten years of engineering improvement to help things along. Now it's no W211 or whatever the new C class is, handling wise, but it's very nice day to day compared to a W124. I think you're really going to like the M104. If you can deal with keeping up with a W124 and an R129, the W202 will be easy for you.

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Michael

1988 300 SL (5 Speed)
1994 E320 Wagon
1997 C230