It could be the AC condensor.  Is this costly?  The hood isn't buckled,
nor are the fenders.  The bumper was pushed in on one side and some of
the plastics around the headlamp are broken.  The metal strip that the
bumper sits against is bent.  I actually found a place that claims to be
able to clear all codes from the sensor??  I am trying to figure out
what the car is worth to determine repairs vs. value of car?  Is this
vintage of car worth fixing?  

In the US, when air bags came out in 1985, the cars came with 10 year replacement stickers on the
glovebox lid. In the early-to-mid 90's, just before the 10 years were up, MBUSA came out with 15
year stickers to on all cars to up the expiration date 5 years.

USA cars are covered by a 4 yr/50K bumper-to-bumper warranty. California cars have an additional
7/70 emission warranty on select items. 49 state cars have an additional 8/80 emission warranty on
select items.

If and when MBUSA offers additional coverage on parts, either published or not published, the
addition brings the warranty up to either 10y/unlimited miles [ML power steering return hoses] or
10y/100000 miles [this is usually offered on seat belt problems] or 10y/120000 miles [this was
selectively offered on 140 body engine harness's back in the late 90's]. The key word in the
examples above is 10y which means 10 years. That's it, that is all the additional help you can beg
and plead and cajole to get out of MBUSA. By raising the 'recommended lifespan' of air bags past the
10 year window to 15 years, it made it a owner maint-enance item that put the sole responsibility on
the car owner. Then if and when the air bag fails to go explode due to age, MBUSA is not involved.

Here in the USA, MBUSA buys the US spec cars from DCAG, sells the US spec cars to authorized MB
dealers, and MBUSA backs all the USA warranties. I believe in Europe now, you get 2 year/unlimited
miles warranty from DCAG? That is it, cut and dried. [I still have not figured out how little MBUSA
is buying the cars for...... the difference between that and what they sell them for to the dealers
is how they make a profit. But from that profit, comes ALL the salaries for MBUSA employees and
there are a lot of them and the profit has to subsidize the warranties].

Granted, MBUSA sells additional warranties: ELW [extended limited warranty] that only is available
on new cars to be purchased within the 1st 12 months and it added 4 years/100000 on but is not
bumper-to-bumper, Starmark used car warranty [not offered any more but cars still have it that have
not expired] and it added up to 4 yrs/100000 on but is not bumper-to-bumper, CPO [certified
pre-owned] which took the place of Starmark and it is not bumper-to-bumper like the 4yr/50K was. CPO
does offer a few items in coverage that ELW and Starmark never did: audio components, phones, and CD
players.
The price of these additional policies are averaged out over a total of all the repairs covered. On
some cars, MBUSA makes a profit on the policy.
On some cars, MBUSA looses its butt!

Working at a MB only dealership for the past 27 years and seeing all the warranty claims and all the
recalls and the repairs being done under class action suits i.e. O'Keefe oil consumption and the buy
backs...... I try to figure out how MBUSA stays in business...... I guess they have better
accountants then Enron did......