Looking at a1990 mercedes 300 E 2.6

[razorboy]

I am looking at buying a 1990 mercedes 300 E 2.6 - about 115K miles. The vendor is asking around 4K for it, which seems reasonable to me. Seats are manually operated, which is a big plus for me - the less mechanical the better. if it had a manual sunroof id be happier

From what I gather, the car came out before the wire harness issue. Were there any other known issues with this model year. I will be going through the service records to look for transmission and head gasket issues. Visual inspection of the engine showed a clean engine, little corrosion.

Will take it for an inspection before buying, but wanted to know if anyone had any useful input to share. I suspect I could be looking at a new transmission/rebuild by 200K miles, but not sure what else