What you describe is exactly my wife's car, right down to the color. I paid $12K when it had 98K miles (from mB dealer, early starmark thing). I think it blue books for $6K now. it just passed 160K miles, with the following problems:


water pump seal leak, replaced for 600$ total.
key ignition jam - replaced for $400
small leak in head at front driver side, but no ill effects. apparantly every 94 C280 will develop this problem. I keep an eye on it., when it crosses 200K miles I will fix it. the car is running strong.

I don't think you will see any problems until 100k miles, and they are fixable. I'd say the car is good for atleast 150k more miles, so 6500$ is a real good deal.


it does drive really nice.

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1977 280 E
1994 C280
1992 190E (sold)

"Jump in the hatch and turn on the key, pop in the clutch and let the wheels roll free"