KNBS550

He said $10K USD, which is about $13.8K CAD. Selling it for $14K USD would be $19.4K CAD. Considering he's in BC and his parts and repair dollars are in CAD, he's going to make a tidy profit if he can sell it.

Dr. Anthony

woops. wrong thread

Mike5215

Don't let Benz55 see that. He'll want to add it to his stable of high dollar Mercedes that get moved around on forklifts.

Dr. Anthony

LOL That's the thread I thought I was replying to

Mike5215

I'm gonna go ahead and estimate repairs to that CLS at about $300 using the Benz55 repair methodology. $350 if you want facelift tail lights.

Dr. Anthony

But the airmatic is ok. so $200. On a side note, you wouldn't believe how many people wanted to buy the car to repair it :/

Mike5215

Oh, I'd believe it.

Dr. Anthony

With a clear title, I think that guy would have paid 30k for it.

mercedesbenzs55

lol!

MrRat

Here's a running, sort of whole, S550 for $8,000:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/cto/5480435640.html

You just need to scan it and fix it.

mercedesbenzs55

Those miles will buff out.

xpl0sive

200k miles is impressive

DaveW68

You should buy that car....and if the engine and trans in your wreck are any good, you should drop them in that car. Likely a cheaper and better solution than your looking at....and no branded title.

Then you can part out the rest of the wreck to recoup a bunch of the costs. You'd be money ahead without a doubt.

xpl0sive

there you go. put those cherry picker skills to use

mercedesbenzs55

Lmao!

Dave, I would do that if I had the time. I would LOVE to swap a W221 engine or tranny.

I once got a 94' camry with 240k miles, but had a bad engine. I bought a 96' Camry with 91k miles and cherry picked the engine into the 94'. I put the old tranny onto the new engine. That tranny ran until 355k original miles!! Shifted smoothly too.