$640 part and 3 hour DIY job. Ask me how I know.

Salvage title? Case closed on the weirdly-low price. I’m a w202 AMG lunatic and considered $5800 to be way too low on a museum-piece C36 like this.

Speaking of the C43, I happen to own 2 of them. Both are going up for sale soon while I downsize-yet-upgrade to an E55.

Jesus christ. Are you feeling okay?

Best I’ve got was one of my best friends through high school and college.

I think one really important detail that is often left out of (especially early era) AMG’s is the fact that they were completely hand-assembled. The cars were empty shells that were completely and totally built by a relatively small crew at the AMG factory. Most especially AMG-built M113-powered cars are…

I was going to offer an informed and respectful rebuttal, but then I realized I was bringing a gun to a knife fight.

I see you’re new to the 2000’s AMG game.

Long time MB AMG lover. I find it really hard to believe any M113-powered MB required a tow. Those things just don’t have problems.

You are literally the first person I’ve ever known of to recognize the GS400 for anything at all, ever. I mean, off the top of my head I can rattle off half a dozen turn-of-the-millennium sedans that outperform it in every metric—including 2 in my own driveway as I type.

293,000 on my 99 C43 AMG, 211,000 on my 98 C43 AMG. The 99 got a new transmission in 2005. Otherwise they’ve both had water pumps, harmonic balancers (recall), engine mounts, crank position sensors, idler pulleys, and 1 alternator—all of which are standard MB M113 V8 parts.

Correction, They made 8,250 C32 AMG’s.

The real unicorns are the w202 C36 and C43 AMG’s. They can be had for a song (much less than 15k), are more rare, and exquisitely well built machines. I have 2 C43’s and they are still reputable daily drivers. 300,000 miles on one, still puts down 0-60 of about 5.6.

i’m noticing a bizarre string of buyer’s guides lately?

They probably didn’t realize it was a Chevy until the first payment was due.

“This can’t be right. I bought a Chrysler.”

The idea that this buzzbox wasn’t mercilessly slain at least as much as your Compass buyer’s guide is highly questionable. Someone’s wife cheat on them or something?

Ugh. I’ve made this post before, but anyway:

Jdrentarol posts picture of Compass as proof not everyone likes Jeep, I defend Compass with personal anecdote (in which I referred to it as a “non-Jeep Jeep”, you choose to correct me for referring to the compass as a jeep. Bravo.

Note I identified it as my wife’s car. It’s the family-mobile.

I had the same mentality, only a passive-aggressive disdain for these non-Jeep Jeeps. But my wife got it in her head she wanted a Compass after road tripping with a girlfriend in one.

Neither was Mercedes, but I doubt anyone cares enough to know (except me).