You are better off leasing cars like a Mercedes. They are complicated cars and things will go wrong as they age. Repairing them at the stealership gets profusely expensive. My doing the repairs myself is a gesture of defiance, proving that I can do it. Otherwise, my time is better spent doing other things. We are discussing selling the car.
I am not much of a car guy. To me they are tools to do a job. I have a diesel Suburban to tow my boats and I have a Honda Accord to commute in. The Suburban is easy and cheap to work on; the Honda I never have any problems and only deal with normal wear items. Wife had to have her convertible sports car, thus the SLK 280. It was good right up to 100K miles, then we started having problems. We appear to be through those problems for the time being.
Radford @ 
Utah 
