I would have to agree on the advice of not buying a salvage title car.
My wife had a Mercedes that she drove for 2+years before it started dropping into limp home mode randomly. It had been dealer serviced since new and it went back to that dealer maybe like 10 times trying to fix it. They changed EVERYTHING trying to fix it. The last time I was in, I asked our regular service advisor if he thought they would be able to fix it? He said, "no, they don't know what is wrong, they won't be able to fix it".
We sent a letter asking for a lemon law return and MBZ NA agreed. Remarkably, they gave us every cent we had paid new for the car. As I was down dropping it off and picking up the check I walked by the car sitting in a corner of service parking and noticed a sign on the windshield. It said, "The car property of MBZ NA, to be sold at auction".
Some poor bloke was going to get the deal of a century on a like new Mercedes SLK with a salvage title and an intermittent EFI problem that Mercedes couldn't fix.
My wife had a Mercedes that she drove for 2+years before it started dropping into limp home mode randomly. It had been dealer serviced since new and it went back to that dealer maybe like 10 times trying to fix it. They changed EVERYTHING trying to fix it. The last time I was in, I asked our regular service advisor if he thought they would be able to fix it? He said, "no, they don't know what is wrong, they won't be able to fix it".
We sent a letter asking for a lemon law return and MBZ NA agreed. Remarkably, they gave us every cent we had paid new for the car. As I was down dropping it off and picking up the check I walked by the car sitting in a corner of service parking and noticed a sign on the windshield. It said, "The car property of MBZ NA, to be sold at auction".
Some poor bloke was going to get the deal of a century on a like new Mercedes SLK with a salvage title and an intermittent EFI problem that Mercedes couldn't fix.
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