Looks like a Mercedes.
It’s a Merc E350 cdi coupe.
Don’t do many miles to be honest.
Tramp all week, sometimes the odd journey at weekends, doesn’t amount to many miles though.
I bought it at the beginning of the year with 59k on it and it’s done 63k now.
IMO 2 door Mercs look waaay better than 4 door. My last CLK was and my current SLK is. Although I’m getting bored with it now.
I had an R171 SLK a few years ago. 350 petrol. Was a lively thing.
Really enjoyed that car.
1.0 focus titanium , 73 k , had it apx 16 months & been faultless , bought as we needed a family car ( 5 door ) , was unsure about a 1.0 in that size body but can’t fault it , done exactly what we brought it for , and as it’s a 65 plate the tax is only £25 ( who doesn’t like to save a few pennies ) , not exciting in any way but as a family car it’s ok , ignore what looks like faded bomnnet it’s spotlight on house
I’ve ended up with this for last month , daughters fiesta vignale, got everything in it bar a CD player , she took my focus a month ago & ive seen it twice since to fill up with fuel
Her boyfriend said he’d put her music on a stick , but no she likes her CD player I did say to my mrs do you want to use it & I’ll use your fiesta st , but her first words were no , it’s got no CD player in it
dozy:
I’ve ended up with this for last month , daughters fiesta vignale, got everything in it bar a CD player , she took my focus a month ago & ive seen it twice since to fill up with fuel
Her boyfriend said he’d put her music on a stick , but no she likes her CD player I did say to my mrs do you want to use it & I’ll use your fiesta st , but her first words were no , it’s got no CD player in it
I thought you were building up to burst into a bit of ‘‘Feeder’’ there doze. 
I never listen to CDs or radio, I have a 64GB memory stick the size of a WiFi adapter. Plugs in the USB port on my radio. It’s got 2000 tracks and climbing, I put it on random and never have to listen to the same music 2 days running.
BossHogg:
I never listen to CDs or radio, I have a 64GB memory stick the size of a WiFi adapter. Plugs in the USB port on my radio. It’s got 2000 tracks and climbing, I put it on random and never have to listen to the same music 2 days running.
This is the downside of working at supermarkets. Some units have usb support, some dont but have AUX support. Some dont even have a CD player or aux or USB support.
Can be quite annoying.
Heck I’ve had plenty of units that dont even have a working radio. (Mainly due to idiots spraying sanitizing alchol all over it and over the tachograph making the buttons un-responsive.
I bought a diesel Rover 75, one of the most comfortable cars I have ever driven, and that includes some really high end motors, it let me down with a leaking power steering pump and rotten bundy tubes. Fortunately I got my money back from “We Buy Any Car . com” The Rover was used and run by the MD of Marshalls of Cambridge, it had 175,000 miles and all straight panels. what a shame.
Wheel Nut:
I bought a diesel Rover 75, one of the most comfortable cars I have ever driven, and that includes some really high end motors, it let me down with a leaking power steering pump and rotten bundy tubes. Fortunately I got my money back from “We Buy Any Car . com” The Rover was used and run by the MD of Marshalls of Cambridge, it had 175,000 miles and all straight panels. what a shame.
Power steering pump? Get a bit of cash back and fix it, if you’re otherwise happy with the car?
Rotten bundy tubes? Lost me, sorry.
Wheel Nut:
I bought a diesel Rover 75, one of the most comfortable cars I have ever driven, and that includes some really high end motors, it let me down with a leaking power steering pump and rotten bundy tubes. Fortunately I got my money back from “We Buy Any Car . com” The Rover was used and run by the MD of Marshalls of Cambridge, it had 175,000 miles and all straight panels. what a shame.
If you buy any car with 175,000 miles on the clock that has been out of production for 16 years then it’s pretty much a given that you are going to have to spend money replacing time-expired parts. I’ve spent around £1,800 on my diesel Rover 75 since the beginning of the year and it’s insurance value is only £850 but replacing time-expired parts will always be cheaper in the long term than depreciation on a newer car.
I don’t know what Bundy tubes are.
Harry Monk:
.I don’t know what Bundy tubes are.
Brake pipes.
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Roymondo:
Harry Monk:
.I don’t know what Bundy tubes are.
Brake pipes.
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Power steering pump and brake pipes on Wheel Nuts 15+(?) year old, 175k car doesnt seem excessive to me, assuming he paid a 2nd hand price, not a new car price.
My mrs car is a 66 plate , nigh on 6 yrs old at a guess & we’ve never had a thing go wrong with it , still same exhaust / battery etc , think all we’ve put on it was 2 front tyres
So to me there’s more to it than just depreciation , we paid 15995 for it apx 5 yrs ago & evans Halshaw who we brought it off offered 11,000 for it 4 months ago ( I’ve seen them going retail for what we paid for hers now ) , it’s mint , only done 18,000 miles & has every extra you can get on a fiesta st .
I’ve had old cars but they can be a pain , always something going wrong , and I’ve done the changing engines / gearboxes / axles & im past that now , and to be honest that’s why I paid the money I did for mrs car , I don’t want her broke down on some country road on her own
Harry Monk:
Wheel Nut:
I bought a diesel Rover 75, one of the most comfortable cars I have ever driven, and that includes some really high end motors, it let me down with a leaking power steering pump and rotten bundy tubes. Fortunately I got my money back from “We Buy Any Car . com” The Rover was used and run by the MD of Marshalls of Cambridge, it had 175,000 miles and all straight panels. what a shame.If you buy any car with 175,000 miles on the clock that has been out of production for 16 years then it’s pretty much a given that you are going to have to spend money replacing time-expired parts. I’ve spent around £1,800 on my diesel Rover 75 since the beginning of the year and it’s insurance value is only £850 but replacing time-expired parts will always be cheaper in the long term than depreciation on a newer car.
I don’t know what Bundy tubes are.
£1800?
What did it need loll.
I dont know much about the Diesels. I know the V6 petrols are a brilliant engine and are pretty powerful though.
Seat Arona, a bit bland, a bit “meh” but it’s loaded with toys and probably gets 3x better mpg than the lunatic parked behind it. I use the Merc for about 30 miles per week so can accept the fuel economy, but obviously the Arona gets to do weekends running around or long trips.
the maoster:
Seat Arona, a bit bland, a bit “meh” but it’s loaded with toys and probably gets 3x better mpg than the lunatic parked behind it. I use the Merc for about 30 miles per week so can accept the fuel economy, but obviously the Arona gets to do weekends running around or long trips.
Car is alright , but Black , the stuff of nightmares , I’ve only had one black car & never again , I could spend all day on a Saturday washing & polishing & I still wasn’t happy , next day it looked as bad as before I cleaned it , and every scratch showed up on it
You’re right Dozy, black can be a nightmare. When it’s good it’s really good but again like you say it’s very difficult to keep it that way.
I’m at an age now where I’ve got better things to do than freeze my ■■■■ off with a bucket of water and a sponge on a weekend, plus that’s what the Romanians 500 yards down the road are for. I’ll happily give them a fiver to sort it.