Mileage or price?
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Assuming all else equal, which is more appealing to you?
Garage queen C55 with only 12K miles, no nav, for $24K.
Or a C55 with 60K miles, has all options except sunshade for only $15K?
Garage queen C55 with only 12K miles, no nav, for $24K.
Or a C55 with 60K miles, has all options except sunshade for only $15K?
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+1 on warranty and make sure they come with maintenence records too because who knows if that low mileage one has just been sitting in a garage for years. Some of the engine components may have dried or cracked.
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Warranty expired on both. Xxaarraa made a good point too.
The owner of the low mileage one had 5 vehicles and a secondary home down south. He had the C55 shipped there and is only using it when he's on vacation there (2 months in a year), so it may have sat down for stretches of several months. Is that long enough to worry about?
The owner of the low mileage one had 5 vehicles and a secondary home down south. He had the C55 shipped there and is only using it when he's on vacation there (2 months in a year), so it may have sat down for stretches of several months. Is that long enough to worry about?
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I thought about that too, but dealerships don't offer extended factory warranty if it's already above 50K miles right?
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you dont have to get a warranty from the dealershipb you can get one from christler or fidelis............. i dont beleive in waranty thats just me. i drive atleast 40k miles a year
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+1 on the E55k FTW!!! Thats what I am getting when I get back to the states. But I have always liked the C55 as well with the supercharger upgraded engine. I would take the one for $15k and use the rest of the money for mods since these engines go far beyond 60k miles with only a couple problems on the way which is with any car. If your worried about warranty then go with the lower mileage one but if not then the $15k one sounds like a good buy.
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Garage queen 05 or 06??? $24 K is way too high..or as DB says "Rip-Off"
an 05/06 with 60 for $15 sounds fair to me and those miles wouldn't scare me away; cept for seat heaters, the C55 doesn't have any major issues (I've heard some engine tapping issues with them BUT that appears to be normal).
Save the $9K and mod the 60,000 mile car!!
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I just purchased a C55 for 15k, but it had 79k miles. All of the C55's I've seen were 20k for the same mileage and higher.
If this is the same one you are looking at, it has a salvage title. If that doesn't bother you, go for it.
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...standard=false
If this is the same one you are looking at, it has a salvage title. If that doesn't bother you, go for it.
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...standard=false
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Nope, that's not it. That's been on autotrader for quite some time now. Funny how you get to memorize all the cars in the online classifieds when you look at them everyday. ![Big Grin](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
The E55 is nice, but the maintenance cost on those things just scares me away. Like $1-1.5K per wheel when you get the dreaded ABC/air ride suspension problem. Right now, I'm really decided on a C55.
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The E55 is nice, but the maintenance cost on those things just scares me away. Like $1-1.5K per wheel when you get the dreaded ABC/air ride suspension problem. Right now, I'm really decided on a C55.
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I'm with you on that one. E55 maintenance scares me as well!
Nope, that's not it. That's been on autotrader for quite some time now. Funny how you get to memorize all the cars in the online classifieds when you look at them everyday. ![Big Grin](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
The E55 is nice, but the maintenance cost on those things just scares me away. Like $1-1.5K per wheel when you get the dreaded ABC/air ride suspension problem. Right now, I'm really decided on a C55.
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The E55 is nice, but the maintenance cost on those things just scares me away. Like $1-1.5K per wheel when you get the dreaded ABC/air ride suspension problem. Right now, I'm really decided on a C55.
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OR put it this way, that $9000 K you'll save by buying the fully optioned car for $15 K will buy a lot of repairs and a LOT of gas as well. Mercedes do NOT do well as garage queens too, the seals, gaskets etc tend to decay/rot, things can leak etc. I'd pay for the $15,000K car, get a tune and exhaust and you're good to go...........
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OR put it this way, that $9000 K you'll save by buying the fully optioned car for $15 K will buy a lot of repairs and a LOT of gas as well. Mercedes do NOT do well as garage queens too, the seals, gaskets etc tend to decay/rot, things can leak etc. I'd pay for the $15,000K car, get a tune and exhaust and you're good to go...........
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OR put it this way, that $9000 K you'll save by buying the fully optioned car for $15 K will buy a lot of repairs and a LOT of gas as well. Mercedes do NOT do well as garage queens too, the seals, gaskets etc tend to decay/rot, things can leak etc. I'd pay for the $15,000K car, get a tune and exhaust and you're good to go...........
http://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchr...ce&sf2Dir=DESC
Reposting this from an old thread: You will be hard pressed to find more than 1-3 C55s on the used market at any given time with that low mileage. Sure, perhaps he could spend the same amount on an E55 or S600 with substantially higher mileage (E55 25K to 35K miles, S600 50K to 60K miles), but that's not exactly easy to find is it? I think on average, prices for C55s with high twenty thousand to low thirty thousand miles on the odometer should fall somewhere around $24,000 - $26,000 (this is based on my experience and my fairly frequent review of national C55 prices).
Now, I am not saying you can't try to negotiate the price. But I will say that if a dealership had a C55 with mileage around 14,000 miles, I would bet money they would list it for $29,000 to $32,000 depending on location.
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This is the second time I am stepping in on this forum to say that the $25,000 C55 with 30,000 miles is not unreasonably priced. Where are people getting that from? Look at the nationwide availability of this car and the comparable pricing:
http://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchr...ce&sf2Dir=DESC
Reposting this from an old thread: You will be hard pressed to find more than 1-3 C55s on the used market at any given time with that low mileage. Sure, perhaps he could spend the same amount on an E55 or S600 with substantially higher mileage (E55 25K to 35K miles, S600 50K to 60K miles), but that's not exactly easy to find is it? I think on average, prices for C55s with high twenty thousand to low thirty thousand miles on the odometer should fall somewhere around $24,000 - $26,000 (this is based on my experience and my fairly frequent review of national C55 prices).
Now, I am not saying you can't try to negotiate the price. But I will say that if a dealership had a C55 with mileage around 14,000 miles, I would bet money they would list it for $29,000 to $32,000 depending on location.
http://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchr...ce&sf2Dir=DESC
Reposting this from an old thread: You will be hard pressed to find more than 1-3 C55s on the used market at any given time with that low mileage. Sure, perhaps he could spend the same amount on an E55 or S600 with substantially higher mileage (E55 25K to 35K miles, S600 50K to 60K miles), but that's not exactly easy to find is it? I think on average, prices for C55s with high twenty thousand to low thirty thousand miles on the odometer should fall somewhere around $24,000 - $26,000 (this is based on my experience and my fairly frequent review of national C55 prices).
Now, I am not saying you can't try to negotiate the price. But I will say that if a dealership had a C55 with mileage around 14,000 miles, I would bet money they would list it for $29,000 to $32,000 depending on location.
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This is the second time I am stepping in on this forum to say that the $25,000 C55 with 30,000 miles is not unreasonably priced. Where are people getting that from? Look at the nationwide availability of this car and the comparable pricing:
http://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchr...ce&sf2Dir=DESC
Reposting this from an old thread: You will be hard pressed to find more than 1-3 C55s on the used market at any given time with that low mileage. Sure, perhaps he could spend the same amount on an E55 or S600 with substantially higher mileage (E55 25K to 35K miles, S600 50K to 60K miles), but that's not exactly easy to find is it? I think on average, prices for C55s with high twenty thousand to low thirty thousand miles on the odometer should fall somewhere around $24,000 - $26,000 (this is based on my experience and my fairly frequent review of national C55 prices).
Now, I am not saying you can't try to negotiate the price. But I will say that if a dealership had a C55 with mileage around 14,000 miles, I would bet money they would list it for $29,000 to $32,000 depending on location.
http://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchr...ce&sf2Dir=DESC
Reposting this from an old thread: You will be hard pressed to find more than 1-3 C55s on the used market at any given time with that low mileage. Sure, perhaps he could spend the same amount on an E55 or S600 with substantially higher mileage (E55 25K to 35K miles, S600 50K to 60K miles), but that's not exactly easy to find is it? I think on average, prices for C55s with high twenty thousand to low thirty thousand miles on the odometer should fall somewhere around $24,000 - $26,000 (this is based on my experience and my fairly frequent review of national C55 prices).
Now, I am not saying you can't try to negotiate the price. But I will say that if a dealership had a C55 with mileage around 14,000 miles, I would bet money they would list it for $29,000 to $32,000 depending on location.