They come up here pretty regularly, but again, you spend a lot of time vetting them, mainly due to the seller giving a lousy description or not totally disclosing the "details".
There is a lot of junk out there, it just takes time to find the good ones. Dan On Jun 24, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Alex Chamberlain wrote: > > Control valve is pricey to replace, but can be rebuilt (our Philip has > done it). But I have to say that the ride height issue, plus the > painted wheels and the "some interior issues," makes me wary of this > one. > > I feel a little sorry for you guys who have so few old Benzes around > that you feel the need to post every time one shows up on CL. If I > did that I'd be posting every day--there are always half a dozen > diesel 123s, 116s, and 126s for sale in Portland. On the other hand > few of them are any good from my experience. Last summer and fall I > was looking at a lot of them, mostly turbo 300Ds and 126 300SDs. And > they were all crap. One of the standard prescreening questions I ask > in first-contact emails or texts is "does the car have any electrical > problems?" When the answer is "A couple of windows don't work, but > nothing other than that," you tend to get your hopes up. Then when > the car turns out to have a big Radio Shack toggle switch on the dash > to turn on the heat because the owner has bypassed the ACC unit and/or > monovalve rather than fix them right, that tends to peg my personal > bozometer. > > Alex > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
