Test driving an 00
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Test driving an 00
On monday we are supposed to go test drive an 00 S500 with 31k miles, Azure Blue on Java. My mother cried "I love my van, I love my van" as my dad talked her into atleast taking one for a spin to see if she likes it. She agreed. Anyways, my dad is in love with the car regardless of the year. We are going to see if we can check the service history and find out whats been worked on. Im going to do a search on the 00 model year too, but wanted any new imput that you guys might be able to offer. I will try to take pics of it if i can. My mom isnt too thrilled though. Ha and this is so odd of me to tell my dad look at an 00...how hyporcritical of me. we are going to throughly check this car for sure. its starmarked so hopefully its ok
Last edited by IluvS500; Dec 11, 2004 at 09:02 PM.
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if its star certified than your gettin a good car because MB does a 150 point inspection on the car and they also tell you if any damage over $5000 CAD had happened to the car which usually involves an accident...you have post more than 12G posts on this website iam sure you know that mechnically the 00 models werent that great...
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yeah im going to thorougly inspect this mercedes. my mom is trying to back out of driving it though. i think i might just tell her to forget it.
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hmmm she said she liked it but isnt too interested in a new car at the moment. i guess thats ok cause we will need the space of the van this holiday season. better luck next time
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she will come around eventually. i think she would rather have a lexus anyways. so whenver she says the van has to go I will pounce on the opportunity. We looked at E classes last year but that was a no go also 
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Originally Posted by Lexino
instead of going with a brand new E500 i would recommend a pre-owned star certified 2001 or up S500 but maybe thats just me...
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I pulled the maintenance records on my 3 yr old Starmarked S500 before purchase - it had been in the shop a lot - mostly for electronics. Thought most of its first year of model problems would be fixed after all those visits. It took me 6 more months of taking it in for one thing or another - again, all electronics - but (I'm holding my breath), the car has 54K miles on it, and it has been doing great for the past year! Mechanically it is wonderful. Half of the stuff was a problem because the dealer screwed something up, didn't know how to fix it, or told me it was an option that wasn't on my car (in each instance, it was on my car as standard equipment - and by talking directly to the techs or reading the forums, I got eveything to work).
I must admit to frustration at frequent returns to the dealer for the same thing. But I have never regretted the purchase.
I must admit to frustration at frequent returns to the dealer for the same thing. But I have never regretted the purchase.
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Originally Posted by Skylaw
I pulled the maintenance records on my 3 yr old Starmarked S500 before purchase - it had been in the shop a lot - mostly for electronics. Thought most of its first year of model problems would be fixed after all those visits. It took me 6 more months of taking it in for one thing or another - again, all electronics - but (I'm holding my breath), the car has 54K miles on it, and it has been doing great for the past year! Mechanically it is wonderful. Half of the stuff was a problem because the dealer screwed something up, didn't know how to fix it, or told me it was an option that wasn't on my car (in each instance, it was on my car as standard equipment - and by talking directly to the techs or reading the forums, I got eveything to work).
I must admit to frustration at frequent returns to the dealer for the same thing. But I have never regretted the purchase.
I must admit to frustration at frequent returns to the dealer for the same thing. But I have never regretted the purchase.
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Originally Posted by DMI+RY
Had the same dilemma about a year ago...
New E-Class vs used S-Class...
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New E-Class vs used S-Class...
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