help decide on purchasing w220
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help decide on purchasing w220
Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and have been slowly reading up on info I need to know. I am currently looking at a local one owner 2006 s500. It is silver with black interior, has amg package and keyless go. It currently has 91k miles. It has clean carfax and owner showed me receipts for maintenance done. My mechanic says that it needs new motor mounts soon and the rear right shock is about to go bad. The car is very clean and the owner is an elderly woman in her 70s lol. We worked out the price to 12.5k. Is it worth it even with the repairs needed? Any other problems I will foresee with 100k up the alley? I also read somewhere about all transmissions go out at around 150k miles? It is kind of hard to believe with my mother's ls430 going on 300k+ miles on original tranny. Any input is greatly appreciated and hope to be part of this great community.
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Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and have been slowly reading up on info I need to know. I am currently looking at a local one owner 2006 s500. It is silver with black interior, has amg package and keyless go. It currently has 91k miles. It has clean carfax and owner showed me receipts for maintenance done. My mechanic says that it needs new motor mounts soon and the rear right shock is about to go bad. The car is very clean and the owner is an elderly woman in her 70s lol. We worked out the price to 12.5k. Is it worth it even with the repairs needed? Any other problems I will foresee with 100k up the alley? I also read somewhere about all transmissions go out at around 150k miles? It is kind of hard to believe with my mother's ls430 going on 300k+ miles on original tranny. Any input is greatly appreciated and hope to be part of this great community.
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12.5 doesn't sound that bad too me. The motor mounts shouldn't be that big of a deal to fix. Some on here I'm sure have done it themself and could help there. If one of the shocks is going bad and this is the only problem, then I'd also think that it not a big deal all things considered. One owner is nice with all the receipts. I've never heard bad things about any of the Mercedes transmissions unless they were mistreated. Good luck!
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So basically I will be putting out about $1600 to replace all 4 with arnott remanufactured shocks? I probably wont go with new oem since arnott uses oem with better materials anyway.
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fantastic price!
man, grab that car and enjoy!. 100% of what loyal benz owners demand and recieve when they spend in excess of $75,000 for that car will be all yours for $12,500?. the only thing missing will be a little "new car smell" which ozium claims to have perfected. your next post should be a bought it and lovin it post!
