you can see rust pic of the tool bag

Wonder if this was the Late Vicky Junor's truck? Nice colour. If it was an official MB Speedo, find when it was installed, it may still be under MB Warranty and would be swapped out for free under the warranty conditions.All MB parts come with a 2 year no quibble warranty)

Nice truck - but at 270K miles (honest car dealer) I would wonder if it has maybe done a few more miles - would check the paperwork that comes with it - and if there is any discrepancies 'Walk Away' . Don't become a victim of 'G Fever'

Spider1V

Personally, I tend not to knock high mileage, until closer inspection.

Once got pretty much given a W210 300TD.

The thing had 418k on the clock.

Not a spot of rust and it drove like new!

Got no paperwork with it but a visit to the dealer revealed all.

It had a full service history, from day one, literally no expense spared. Most recent was a "complete" front and rear suspension overhaul, not long before that, new engine, and so on, all at the main dealer 

The chap must have spent 3x the amount on it than what it cost new.

Just mentioning this, because high mileage "can" mean a better car than a low mileage one, which had been sitting around rotting..

The speedo/ odo is all mechanical so it should be repairable. Plenty of people doing up older dashs. I wouldn't let that put you off if the rest of the vehicle is in good nick.

Had a 463 speedo repaired by Speedograph richfield in Nottingham was about £100 some years ago as I remember a new speedo head then was about £300

I owned an auto 92 300gd for 10y and it never clunked when changing gears. Did it do it when hot or cold or both? Either way it sounds like a g/box rebuild will be required so consider the cost in any negotiation.

he says clunking is just the nature of the beast.

As others have said - most definitely not the case and could be expensive. Should qualify a straight 1500 off asking price. 

The real joke of course being:

We are Colin Ferns Ltd, specialists in Mercedes Benz for 34 years.

We do integrity, not mediocrity.

LOL 

early 463's have universal joints and sliding joint type shaft between the gearbox and transfer case /later 463's have cv type joints and shaft / 270k miles is a lot of wear and tear on all the drivetrain this will create potentially all kinds of extra drivetrain shunt and lash.

 i recently have had dealings with a highish mileage  463 and it had very mushy and  collapsed transfer case mounts the vehicle had very  bad (and historic) vibration issues , the drivetrain shunt was fairly awful and you had to develop a method of gentle gearchanging and clutch action so as not to provoke the shunt and lash (this car was a manual shift ) replacement of the dual mass flywheel and the front  propshaft cured the vibration but inspection of the entire vehicle showed EVERY rubber mount and suspension bush was at the end of its life and this car had only covered 150k + ish miles .

 this car will eventually find another owner or bounce about on ebay forever / it is a diesel g so it will be tempting for someone / the diesels always seem to have big miles on them ,you are right to look elsewhere .