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The MB parts used in chrysler cars didn't have any effect on the quality of the Mercedes cars.
As far as I know, no Chrysler parts were ever used on Mercedes car. Parts only flowed the other direction. So while Mercedes directly affected a few of the Chrysler products, the opposite was not true.
That's why I said "For whatever reason, maybe coincidence, the crappiest, lowest quality, least reliable Mercedes cars were built during the DaimlerChrysler era." I don't see how the Chrysler acquisition directly affected the quality of MB cars during this era. Maybe it was just coincidence, but it is true that the crappiest, lowest quality, least reliable Mercedes cars were built during the DaimlerChrysler era.
(BTW, I disagree that the first of the C class cars were the beginning of the problem. The first C class cars were built fine and are pretty solid cars. The problems REALLY started in full force with the W203 C class, which was the new body style introduced for the 2001 model year. The warranty work that Mercedes was required to do on those cars, and most of the other Mercedes models during the early 2000s, was staggering and cost the company a tremendous and unprecedented amount of money.)
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So, in short, the crap M-B has built can be blamed on M-B itself. Or, are you suggesting M-B use Chrysler as a scapegoat for their, as of late, poor quality?
BTW: the first line of C-Class M-Bs were rated
lowest in consumer crash safety standards for their class. Solid, they evidentially were not.