Just had two Sprinter people visiting, both with VERY negative experiences
with their Sprinters...one less than a year old and one a few hrs old.  The
older one's owner was a Vanagon owner before the Sprinter, which he says he
drives most of the time in "limp home mode" because the nearest dealer is
over an hour each way and it  costs over $300 to have them diagnose
whatever its problems are each time...he hates it.   The other family has
one the recently retired Vetinarian bought for camping and mountain
biking...They spent last winter in Arizona, where Sprinters are
rampant...He, too, hates his...it is now in need of another
computer...$3k...and of course that MUST be installed by the dealer.  My
brother in law also got one maybe 3 yrs ago...at least he has  close
dealers, him being in Orange county CA...His, according to him, his own
Sprinter has spent more time at the dealership than on his street.  He
hates it, too.
  Ok, so I've been intrigued by those, but I got hints they are expensive
to run and unreliable...But when we got talking...two real owners and one
close relative to another owner... I got it from actual owners(except for
the brother in law). They seem to be hated...and usually people can justify
all kinds of faults in a vehicle they bought... but these folks went OFF!
on how awful their Sprinters are... Jay even offered his diesel automatic
straight across for my 84 tintop...
   So whoever was recently posting about changing to a Sprinter.... you may
want to talk to some owners of them first.  3for3, that's pretty negative
for a vehicle... I was surprised..