2015 s550 purchase decision
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2015 s550 purchase decision
Hey guys!
Looking in trading my current car (2016 BMW 650I Grand Coupe). Stopped by a local MB dealer and the had a 2015 s550 fully loaded (amg package, rear entertainment, rear recliner, vented seats all around etc) car looks mint in and out and would basically be a direct swap) . They will only do a 4 month 4000 miles local dealership warranty. Car currently has 68k miles and they will do the 70k maintenance if we do the deal. My current BMW has 16k miles, have it since new with 0 issues and I know I will have 0 issues in the future as its my 3rd car that I drive a couple times a week.
My question, is it worth the swap? How reliable is the 1st gen s550? Any major/known issues?
Thank you everyone!
Looking in trading my current car (2016 BMW 650I Grand Coupe). Stopped by a local MB dealer and the had a 2015 s550 fully loaded (amg package, rear entertainment, rear recliner, vented seats all around etc) car looks mint in and out and would basically be a direct swap) . They will only do a 4 month 4000 miles local dealership warranty. Car currently has 68k miles and they will do the 70k maintenance if we do the deal. My current BMW has 16k miles, have it since new with 0 issues and I know I will have 0 issues in the future as its my 3rd car that I drive a couple times a week.
My question, is it worth the swap? How reliable is the 1st gen s550? Any major/known issues?
Thank you everyone!
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2001 E55AMG
Hey guys!
Looking in trading my current car (2016 BMW 650I Grand Coupe). Stopped by a local MB dealer and the had a 2015 s550 fully loaded (amg package, rear entertainment, rear recliner, vented seats all around etc) car looks mint in and out and would basically be a direct swap) . They will only do a 4 month 4000 miles local dealership warranty. Car currently has 68k miles and they will do the 70k maintenance if we do the deal. My current BMW has 16k miles, have it since new with 0 issues and I know I will have 0 issues in the future as its my 3rd car that I drive a couple times a week.
My question, is it worth the swap? How reliable is the 1st gen s550? Any major/known issues?
Thank you everyone!
Looking in trading my current car (2016 BMW 650I Grand Coupe). Stopped by a local MB dealer and the had a 2015 s550 fully loaded (amg package, rear entertainment, rear recliner, vented seats all around etc) car looks mint in and out and would basically be a direct swap) . They will only do a 4 month 4000 miles local dealership warranty. Car currently has 68k miles and they will do the 70k maintenance if we do the deal. My current BMW has 16k miles, have it since new with 0 issues and I know I will have 0 issues in the future as its my 3rd car that I drive a couple times a week.
My question, is it worth the swap? How reliable is the 1st gen s550? Any major/known issues?
Thank you everyone!
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As with any used German car, if you do this, you'll probably want a warranty if you can buy a good one for say....under $5k, especially being 6 years old at that starting mileage. But you should not even consider anything other than an exclusionary policy. Named component or powertrain policies likely wouldn't cover the things that are most likely to break on these cars. Check out this thread....and ignore the garbage spewed by the "know-it-all" woman in the thread: https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w...orthwhile.html
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
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As with any used German car, if you do this, you'll probably want a warranty if you can buy a good one for say....under $5k, especially being 6 years old at that starting mileage. But you should not even consider anything other than an exclusionary policy. Named component or powertrain policies likely wouldn't cover the things that are most likely to break on these cars. Check out this thread....and ignore the garbage spewed by the "know-it-all" woman in the thread: https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w...orthwhile.html
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
I am probably the target of both sides of that debate as I bought an extended warranty for one of my cars and didn't buy an extended warranty for the other.
I'm further a target in another of the on-going debates here since one of my cars has 20 inch wheels with run flat tires and one has 18 inch wheel with non-run flat tires!
So I'm on the losing side from both sides of these arguments.
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As with any used German car, if you do this, you'll probably want a warranty if you can buy a good one for say....under $5k, especially being 6 years old at that starting mileage. But you should not even consider anything other than an exclusionary policy. Named component or powertrain policies likely wouldn't cover the things that are most likely to break on these cars. Check out this thread....and ignore the garbage spewed by the "know-it-all" woman in the thread: https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w...orthwhile.html
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
IMO, you'd be better off spending an extra $3-5k and buy one with less than 40k miles. There are plenty of them available, but you may need to go a little further to get one. Warranties will also be significantly less expensive with the lower starting miles.
