To be onest with you I was joking about buying it( I have my w124 and I will have w124 forever), but you can get more than 9k for it. I am sure someone on the forum will be intereted in it. With all the repairs car is worted a lot more. This car will last a long time. My advice is not to sell it. A good friend of mine ( salesperson) was in the same position, s320 SWB around 120K with over $8k in repairs and he was thinking about getting rid of it. I told him the same think an he was keeping it until ....hold your breath... 445k on the original engine and the updated gasket, only with minor repairs (brakes,plugs,...etc). Finaly the trany gave up a couple of months ago ad he is going to fix it.
So don't rush and think over.

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New Addition to the family
2013 Passat TDI 5Miles
2004 E500 4MATIC Wagon 95k
1996 E300 Diesel 173k Sold
1993 300E 2.8 230k Sold
1994 E320 White Wagon 373K Sold
Still dreaming about ....500E


Radu Negru