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Tyler Hoover
hooviesgarage
Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover went broke after 10 years in the car business and is now selling hamburgers to support his personal fleet of unreliable European cars.

The headline should say coupes... Manual coupes. The same guy I bought mine from is selling that blue top convertible. Read more

Thank you, even though you’re probably laughing at my idiocy. Read more

I was shopping for a while. High mileage convertibles with blow motors were bringing 8k on eBay. It drives so nice I felt like I stole it for sure. Read more

Every time I’ve seen one being done at the dealer or indy, they take the engine out. It takes roughly the same amount of time but makes things much more accessible. Read more

What kind? I also have a 1984 300SD I converted to a stick. Read more

The V12 doesn’t have this issue, though PLENTY of others. Read more

I had one go through my lot, once. We fixed steering shaft problems before selling it. They seem to take the average neglectful cheap car owner fairly well. Read more

The failure was due to an extremely negligent prior owner having his son patch the radiator rather than replace it. When that patch failed, the motor severely overheated. This could happen to any car. Read more

I hope to do just that as well as plenty more PSAs. Read more

I think we will see a huge quality let down from Mercedes standard as the years go by based on the build quality of the CLA. Look very closely at one then a C-class. The difference in quality very noticeable Read more

Parts, and good luck finding many indy shops that want to try that big of a job out $100 an hour. Most Mercedes dealers are $150-200 an hour now. Read more

Yeah I saw that on bringatrailer as well. Poor guy. Read more