You guys aren’t seeing the big picture here. This car is also 25 years old, and engine mounts are a replaceable rubber part. Transmissions deal with heat and have thousands of tiny gaskets, valves and switches; the wiring harmess speaks for itself. These are typical maintenance items on any car over a 25 year span.

Nice Price, 100%, because of that wiring harness replacement. This was built at the start of the era when German regulations stipulated biodegradable insulation on wiring harnesses. That’s why the 1990s German cars had so many electrical issues. I saw the same thing happen to Ford Contours, which had German-produced…

I own both. The 500E is different. It has a 50/50 weight balance and steps out exactly perfectly predictable. Handles like it’s on rails. It has the magic of its 4-Speed trans. There’s space. And it LOVES going fast.

The wiring harness would be a potential hangup had it not been done. By 2018, nearly every W124 still mobile should have had its harnesses replaced.

These cars (the W124s) are one of the last, great, bazillion-mile Mercedes platforms, from the era when the engineers ran the place, and not the marketeers, when the…

Everyone voting CP on this car has no idea what it is. The 500e is much much more than a standard w124, think e30 M3 but with more rarity, class and substance (and everyone on this site would hit the NP button and THEN go read the article at $30k for the M3).
 
That it comes with all of the common trouble spots…

This is a hand built, limited production sedan with a subtle aggressiveness that is quickly gaining the attention of collectors. If you say there are faster, more luxurious sedans you would be right. But then the charm of owning a vintage car is probably already lost on you. These aren’t getting any more plentiful or…