New member, new to Mercedes Benz
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From: Normandie - Gold Beach
97 SL500 and a few BMW's
New member, new to Mercedes Benz
Greetings! My name is Fred. I live on the west coast, splitting my time between Healdsburg CA and Reno NV. Confession is I am a total BMW fan boy after having owned 14 or 15 of them along with some MINI's in the last 25 or so years - don't hate. My partner and I currently have five BMWs and a MINI on two continents and the two aforementioned US states. I regularly do basic maintenance and some repairs on my cars; I like the former, the latter not so much. I am fairly active on Bimmerfest as a result of fanboy, plus seven cars only one of which is under warranty, plus the fact I get satisfaction out of playing with cars.
I just joined MB World after picking a high mileage 2011 GL 350 Bluetec. By high mileage I mean 175k miles. By picking up I mean it was given to me by a friend. Reason is she got a $12k list of repair work from the dealer after owning it since new and spending $39,451 at their service department in the nine plus years she owned it. The cherry on the cake is she was told they would not even take it on trade as she placed an order for a 2021 GLS. She went across the street and wrote a check for a 2021 Range Rover instead and I now have her discarded GL.
I'll do a car intro post on the proper platform forum, but if I hang on to this car I think my post count will be going up fairly quickly.
Looking forward to finding out about my GL, learning from seasoned members, and hopefully contributing as I get my sea legs with this car.
Cheers!
I just joined MB World after picking a high mileage 2011 GL 350 Bluetec. By high mileage I mean 175k miles. By picking up I mean it was given to me by a friend. Reason is she got a $12k list of repair work from the dealer after owning it since new and spending $39,451 at their service department in the nine plus years she owned it. The cherry on the cake is she was told they would not even take it on trade as she placed an order for a 2021 GLS. She went across the street and wrote a check for a 2021 Range Rover instead and I now have her discarded GL.
I'll do a car intro post on the proper platform forum, but if I hang on to this car I think my post count will be going up fairly quickly.
Looking forward to finding out about my GL, learning from seasoned members, and hopefully contributing as I get my sea legs with this car.
Cheers!
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2017 GLE350 4MATIC
Greetings! My name is Fred. I live on the west coast, splitting my time between Healdsburg CA and Reno NV. Confession is I am a total BMW fan boy after having owned 14 or 15 of them along with some MINI's in the last 25 or so years - don't hate. My partner and I currently have five BMWs and a MINI on two continents and the two aforementioned US states. I regularly do basic maintenance and some repairs on my cars; I like the former, the latter not so much. I am fairly active on Bimmerfest as a result of fanboy, plus seven cars only one of which is under warranty, plus the fact I get satisfaction out of playing with cars.
I just joined MB World after picking a high mileage 2011 GL 350 Bluetec. By high mileage I mean 175k miles. By picking up I mean it was given to me by a friend. Reason is she got a $12k list of repair work from the dealer after owning it since new and spending $39,451 at their service department in the nine plus years she owned it. The cherry on the cake is she was told they would not even take it on trade as she placed an order for a 2021 GLS. She went across the street and wrote a check for a 2021 Range Rover instead and I now have her discarded GL.
I'll do a car intro post on the proper platform forum, but if I hang on to this car I think my post count will be going up fairly quickly.
Looking forward to finding out about my GL, learning from seasoned members, and hopefully contributing as I get my sea legs with this car.
Cheers!
I just joined MB World after picking a high mileage 2011 GL 350 Bluetec. By high mileage I mean 175k miles. By picking up I mean it was given to me by a friend. Reason is she got a $12k list of repair work from the dealer after owning it since new and spending $39,451 at their service department in the nine plus years she owned it. The cherry on the cake is she was told they would not even take it on trade as she placed an order for a 2021 GLS. She went across the street and wrote a check for a 2021 Range Rover instead and I now have her discarded GL.
I'll do a car intro post on the proper platform forum, but if I hang on to this car I think my post count will be going up fairly quickly.
Looking forward to finding out about my GL, learning from seasoned members, and hopefully contributing as I get my sea legs with this car.
Cheers!
