abhatti55

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/03-Me...QQcmdZViewItem

I was watching this car on Ebay...Is this the trend on the value of these poor cars or was this just an exception. Judging the pics someone got an awesome car for an awesome price. I may have to wait on the S65 to come down some more as an only chance of having some kind of resale value...I would probably keep it forever anyway..

bmurphywa

S600 has a notoriously bad engine, no warranty, etc. etc.

abhatti55

I've only heard horror stories from the pre-2003 cars..This is the same engine that goes in the Maybach's too.. For this price I will take the risk all day long...

rccmerc

If you have deep pockets, buy. You can then put on one of your self-aggrandizing trunk lid badges

my06clk

Who needs deep pockets to have a 20K car? it works well with the banks, NADA, and KBB so why not?? problems or not, this is still a 20K car to the guy who got this sweet deal. AND its a facelift.. which makes it even sweeter..

Most folks who have post facelift cars have a lot more than 20K in them..
I am 29 deep in my 04 and felt I was still above average though barely..

Imagine being 25 or 30K deep in a prefacelift 600 with all of the crap wrong with those, now this doesn't seem like such a bad deal does it??

abhatti55:

I think this is more the trend.. of course this was an exceptional deal for somebody who wanted to drive a nice car and spend the equivalent of two car payments in gas every month.. I think the fuel issue has hurt sales of these ars more than the car issues themselves...

Goodluck waiting on a wholesale S65.. for two reasons,

1. AMG has historically and will more than likely always bring the most resale of ANY benz in any category..

2.Most AMG owners usually don't buy to sale.. they buy to keep till the end of time.. Only leasers with new money or kids of very very old money trade these cars every three to 4 years..

You will barely see great deals on used S65's out there because there just aren't that many compared to all of the other w220's. there should be a few on S55's because they date further back..

This was a good sale on that S600..

abhatti55

Thank you for the reply my06clk...I was watching that car and could not imagine him letting it go so cheap. Hopefully this will be a bargaining tool for the other S600's on Ebay. That car was a steal and I still can't get over it...Triple Black and all it was screaming for was big brakes and S65 wheels. Even Manheim cars are going stronger than this from what I can see...Hell forget Manheim...no reserve auctions on Ebay are where the steals are at.

My S65 argument was that you may pay more in this case alot more for one, but in the hope of buying something that won't depreciate so hard...I am definitely in the market for one of these cars to add to the permanent collection. Was looking for a 55 car, but this is alot more bang for the buck..

abhatti55

Are there any production figures on the post '03 600's and S65's...The 600 seems pretty rare too, atleast ones that are loaded all the way.

Gondon

Carfax prob would show car's frame was welded together

K-A

That is alot of Miles for such a beastly complex car, but HOLY CRAP that is alot of Car for $20K, I thought you guys were talking about a pre face-lift first, not the V12TT!!

I was even more shocked until I saw a '03 S600 with around 50K Miles going for only $21K in the local Autotrader here....That's an insane deal.

The thing with W220's is that, the reason they're dropping to obscene prices is because everyone's scared to touch them, Warranty them, etc. I was SET on getting another W220 after I sold my S500, but I was just too scared to touch one, so I spent alot more $$ on an E-Class with Warranty, etc.

AH1W-COBRA

front and rear suspension coil over gas pressurized shocks?

rccmerc

OK, loan Abhatti the 20k, and if within two years if has spent more on repairs then the the initial loan, he owes you nothing. If not he continues to service the debt.

my06clk

You're funny...

So you are actually saying that this car will cost upwards of 20K in repairs over the next 2 years?

If I was a gambling man ( and had 20K to double), I'd buy it myself and take you up on that with and escrow wager...LOL.

Speaking of which I wonder as a average what a two year maintenance average would look like if we had some type of poll.. I know what mine is,, and its much less than 25% of 20K

rccmerc

Touche!!

illmeth0d

can't believe i missed this one.... i would have at least made it a little more expensive for him