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Default 1984 Mercedes 500 SEL 88,000 miles

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:02:56 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:30:30 -0400, Tom Gardner
wrote:

On 3/15/2016 11:32 PM, Ignoramus17516 wrote:
On 2016-03-16, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 3/13/2016 6:18 PM, Ignoramus27049 wrote:
Some auction has a car for sale, a 1984 Mercedes 500 SEL 88.

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/mercedes.jpg

It looks decent and seems to have spent most of its life in a garage.

My question is, is it possible to expect any kind of raliability froma
car of that age? A lot of rubber components etc would ave dried
out. Any thoughts?

i


Go to a auto parts store and price out some common components like
rotors, starters, exhaust, ignition computers, ect.

I saw the POS today and thought, oh my god, what a lucky man I am


Dodging bullets has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment.


2 points, Tawm. g

If he had bougnt the thing he would have needed the right to "bare
arms" to get to half of what required repairs without getting his
shirt-sleaves caught.