I know, I know. Promise it's true. What's more is I had to make him take the $100. He bought it for his son (16), and when the mechanic told him about the valve, he wrote it off. I think he paid $1,200 for it, which is why I insisted on giving him something for it. I tried to tell him that it couldn't be too bad since, after all, it IS a Mercedes, and only has 116K on it. Almost anything wrong with it would be worth fixing (he DOES have the money). He went ahead and bought his son some SUV and called me saying "come get this thing out of my driveway - it's taking up a spot". I think a lot of the kindness came from the fact that my wife had just wrecked our '94 Jetta into something that fell off of a semi (no lisence plate recorded) and she has nothing to drive. Also, poeple who are used to driving american cars don't realize that 120K on a MB is considered 'low mileage'. He simply did not know what he had. I'll take and upload pictures...I am not pulling anything...Promise!!