CFiftyFive

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?

loudandheard

Which one has warranty?

BigBodyBenzC240

+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.

xxaarraa

I'd take the $15k one. If you drive both for 30k miles and sell them, you will lose much less on the $15k car.

francoisisp

ok this looks like a no brainer to me......... c55 15k all the way get an extended waranty maybe 5k for it if that then you will be at 20k you are set if you are mechanicaly inclined you dont even need a waranty get yourself a star diag plus wis and epc put som money aside and you are good to go.......... ive been driving a C32 110+K miles with no waranty a few problems here and there but fixed it all on my own, the beauty of these cars is that they are so old that anything that could have happened to them already has happened and there is a thread out there somewher that has the answer to all your problems just use the search button go with the 60k miles one. i bought a mercedes with no navy before and hated it spent 2k on aftermarket and still hated to the point that i just sold the car and bought another one with navy .............just my $0.02

CFiftyFive

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?

CFiftyFive

I thought about that too, but dealerships don't offer extended factory warranty if it's already above 50K miles right?

francoisisp

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

Mr.Benzo

dealers dont offer extended warrantys that are any good if your car isnt under the original warranty still.

francoisisp

for 24 k i would try to find and e55

BigBodyBenzC240

+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.

Newzchspy

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!!

Newzchspy

+1, an 05/06 would be hard to find at that price, they are closer to $28-30.

ZachG

Where are you able to find a C55 with 15K miles for only 24K?

mikekuriger

C55s don't need warranties (in my opinion). 135,000 trouble free miles. Just tires, a few tranny flushes, oil changes, and one set of brakes.

loudandheard

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

CFiftyFive

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.

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.

mikekuriger

I'm with you on that one. E55 maintenance scares me as well!

Dingleberry

24k for any c55 is a RIPOFF.

get the c55 with MORE OPTIONS for 15k and get a NICE aftermarket warranty for it.

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mikekuriger

Agreed

Newzchspy

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...........

xxaarraa

Or... Take the $9k saved, buy a Toyota Yaris and get a gazillion mpg to offset the C55 mpg (as well as the bad karma associated with C55's higher emissions )

mrobinso

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.

Dingleberry

They can list it for whatever the hell they want. That doesn't change the fact that it is a HUGE RIPOFF, narrowing the potential buyer base to almost zilch.

mgiannetto

I agree with mrobinso