c.cloudwalker
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At $2,250.00 so is mine ...
I once worked with a guy that bought a Mercedes (can't remember model or year) for about $3000. Turned out that it needed a little work... The starter (which was completely different from any starter I've ever seen before) needed replaced. I think it cost about $3000....
Man, you really want to drag me into this MB thing... :lmao:
True, some parts are expensive but not all and, $3,000 + $2,250 = $5,250. What else can you get for that price.
Now, it does pay to either know a little something about MBs or have someone who knows about them when you buy one. But not that much. When you buy older models, they are so simple that there is not that much that can go wrong with them that someone with a little bit of common sense can't figure out.
My wife and I bought over 20 of them on ebay that we turned into fry-oil vehicles. The only problems we had with some of them were not mechanical. But, yes again, some parts are expensive. You can cut the cost by getting the right year.
My favorite MB is from the 60s but I probably will never get one because the price of parts is absolutely outrageous. Another thing worth understanding about MBs is that they are not put together like any other car. When we lived in the boonies where nobody had ever seen an MB to be fixed, our mechanic took 45mns to take off the old brake pad on the first wheel :lmao:
Back to the subject of the thread: Yes I switched!