http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...190108985&rd=1

I will be picking it up this coming weekend. Please advise if it is a good buy or not. 2005 with 43K under warranty. Clean Carfax, one owner.

Guys, Can i buy 100K mile Benz extended warranty on this car or not ? Also Is this car missing any options ? I couldnt find a link on this site which shows ALL the possible options on a 2005 S55. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-Sal

 

Looks like there's 3 days left on the bidding - so are you saying you're buying it no matter the sell price?

That being said, this one is loaded and I think you'll be happy with the list of accessories.

I think warranty on the 2005's was 4/50, so you should have the remainder of the factory warranty and have the ability to buy an extended warranty. I would confirm with the seller - and NOT buy it if a warranty is not available.

 

The original owner can buy an MB extended warranty. If your seller is the original owner than you should have him buy the transferrable warranty as part of the deal. A second owner can't do it.

 

+1 on the warranty. You have to make sure you are covered under some kind of extended warranty even if you have to pay extra for it, you'll save a ton of money down the road. Also, make sure you run your own CarFAX report and at the service history of the car (if available).

But otherwise, the car looks like it is in great condition.

 

Check with the seller to see if it has the MB phone. I don't see it as an option on the listing.

 

Guys, thank you so much for yor advices. I didn't know at all that you can't just buy an extended warranty as a second owner. That kind of sucks. He is a dealer and not sure if he can arrange something for me in regards to buying the extended warranty. But I will check neverhtless. Thank you a bunch
-Sal

 

I don't understand. The car auction says "reserve not met"?? Have you committed? I caution you on buying a car that you haven't seen. When you see it in person there might be issues that you are unable to see in the pictures and things about the car that you will have to get fixed.

Has it had body or paint work?

That's 43,300 miles on the car so the basic warranty is gone in 7 ticks as noted by the others above. This car looks really good but it may be a lease return that this buyer has bought at auction and reconditioned to look nice. Maybe someone drove it really hard. I would find another lower mileage car and possibly a 2006 for not much more money. I know it is hard to resist but the mileage is too high. Just think put another 20,000 miles and you have a car with miles in the 60s that will be yours forever....Just my 2 cents.

 

+1 Great advice above.....

 

OK, reserve did not meet so I guess we need to assume that you have a separate final price from that dealer. Since he is the dealer and it was a leased vehicle, you have NO CHANCE to get a MB warranty from him. You can probably still get an aftermarket warranty from Chrysler (but it's not the FACTORY) and it won't be cheap (probably around $4K added onto the final price so your pprobably looking at over $50K for that car with an extended warranty. No bargain (if you ask my opinion). In addition, they had to get a duplicate title issued. This is normally a warning sign if it was a privately owned car. Since this was a leased vehicle, it may not be a red flag but... I won't touch it. What price did the seller agree to sell it to you for?

Here's the report online
http://www.autocheck.com/?utm_medium...NG74J65A435764

 

I wouldn't do it. $44k(reserve still not met) with 44k on the clock for an '05(no warranty) seems a kinda high. There are plenty of other ones on ebay, autotrader, or even at your local dealers.

 

So Sal - did you buy it?

 

Yes brother I am a proud owner of a mint S55. Just got it today and it just amazing. Me and my wife actually got scared of the sheer power of AMG power. It just wants to take off and does not stop, at any given speed any given time. I talked him down to $52000. The car needs a bit of alignment but other than that it was 99.99% perfect. I am used to of driving an '01 7 Series you know. Though I would say the ride of 7 Series a bit soft as compare to the S55 but there is no comparison of the engine.

I am sorry but I have couple of questions for you if you dont mind.

-I see all the buttons of the phone, address book and all, but I do not have a phone in the car. I just want bluetooth to work in my car, do I have that option ? Any information will help.

-Warranty. I still have like 7K miles left for warranty, what should I get done before the Factory warranty expires ?

-Extended warranty. Which one to go for AutoWarrantyBroker VS Chrysler Service Contracts ? If any body can help me with these, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you so much for all of your support. I plan to keep the car for next 3 years at least. and plan to put max 15-20K miles ( Hopefully ) As my 7 Series is the work horse.
-Sal

 

The dealer told me that there is a 7K warranty left on the car ? Did he lie to me ? I am sucker at these things man. I bought the car for $52,000. If you see in the auction it says Factory Warranty left. And I am aware that I would be buying the warranty and its not going to run me cheap. But to be honest, this was the ONLY Benz that I saw on ebay which had Distronic and Rear seat package. No other car had that. I searched on cars.com and autotrader.com. Honestly, I didn't see a better car with better options and price. I know I should have AT LEAST paid 3-5 thousand less for the car, but I really wanted one before the end of the year.


I have learnt from my research here on this board, that in certain cases, the aftermarket warranty is at times better than the CPO ? Is it true ? I talked to a very nice lady at Autobroker and spent like 30 min discussing the possible warranty. I know they will tell me anything to sell the warranty, but she was like you can take it for any problem besides the regular maintenance, rotors, brakes, fluids etc. Plus I read so many good things about autowarranty brokers ?
-Sal

 

Sal - If it's got only 43K then you should have factory warranty until 50K (or 4 years from th date it was placed in service). As with the BMW's, you should be able to get the full service history of that vehicle from your regular Benz dealer. As discussed, an after market warranty can be good but many of the after market ones will not cover an AMG vehicle. I too was looking at that particular car because it had the rear seat comfort package (which IMHO is one of the best ones for these cars). Nice car.

 

I contacted awb ( autowarrantybroker.com ) by phone in late December about an extended warranty for my car and got a quote. I asked the girl if the 3y/36K mi warranty was effective upon date of purchase or when my current extended warranty expires (this September); when she replied that it was effective immediately, I told her that I would wait and get back to them in Sept. She said that this was probably to my advantage, and gave me her extension and name.

A few weeks later, after the first of the year, it dawned on me that my current warranty is refundable on a pro-rated basis, and so I figured that I'd look into purchasing the AWB warranty and getting a refund on the current one.

I called her back, and when she checked, she found that they would no longer write my car as of January 1st. When I pointed out to her that I had discussed waiting with her until Sept, she replied that she'd told all of her customers that things change on January 1st. I replied that she certainly hadn't told me that, or I'd have bought it. Despite my pressing her that she should keep her word, she would not honor it.

I wrote Peter Leddington, who as I found out later owns the company, and complained. He said that he would look into getting an exception for me, and asked for a good time to call me. I replied w/info, and never heard a peep from him.

So I wrote him back. Twice. No response.

I then contacted customer service, and the girl there told me he was the head of company. Amazing....she also contacted him on my behalf, multiple times, but again: Mr. Leddington never responded. (But if you do get a quote online, you will hear from them, in the form of multiple spam emails (which is how I came to write him and complain in the first place)). This is unbelieveably rude, not to mention unprofessional.

This experience gels with what brianw430 recounted in this thread: they seem to have a rather curious concept of what constitutes good customer service.

My current warranty, which I purchased through my dealership, has been fabulous. No hassles, and prompt payout to dealer--I haven't had to lift a finger to get the vehicle repaired. I doubt that this would be the case with Mr. Leddington's company.

I will be avoiding AWB like the plague after my experience and after reading about brian's. If the company president can't even provide an explanation as to why he wouldn't honor his employee's promise, I doubt they'd be any easier to work with on an actual claim.

 

Looks great , ENJOY! Price seems fine to me. That car was probably $120K new. At $40K+, I don't think you could go wrong.

 

Great car, I got an S55, myself, get warrenty asap, don't mean to be a jerk, my buddy just bought one from a dealer here in No. Cal, 2005 with 35k on it, for $45,500. Fully loaded.

 

BallzyS55, that's quiet alright. Trust me a lot of people have quiet different of a definition when it comes to 'FULLY LOADED'. Does your friend has the rear seat package and the ACC ( Active Cruise Control )?
-Sal

 

Very interesting. I will share my experience with them. I do not know the lady name, but she started calling me after I made a request over the line to get the quote. After speaking to her the first time, I told her that I will consider it and let her know at a later time. She kept on calling me and each time I would not pick up, as her # would show. To make the long story short, she called me a total of 8 times left 5 messages. I am going to do far more extensive homework before I buy any warranty on my 05 S55.
-Sal

 

It got even *more* interesting after this; I wrote their owner up telling him that I was going to post about what happened, that I felt he had acted very unprofessinally, and that I felt they had lousy customer service...his response was basically a continuation: he made up some BS story about "travelling" on the day he wrote me, offered to call me back, and then blew me off when I responded to him within one hour of receiving his email...then, he basically accused me of lying, saying that his reps "always" told their customers of these changes.

I told him that she hadn't told me any such thing, that I had no possible reason to say otherwise, and that frankly, after experiencing his "customer service" philosophy in action (or rather, inaction), I'm not very glad that she hadn't. I wouldn't buy a warranty for a tricycle from those guys after this nutty behavior...I can imagine how crappy they must be *after* the sale's been made if they're this lousy beforehand!

There's more on this, including another member's issues with them, in this thread:https://mbworld.org/forums/s55-amg-s65-amg-s63-amg-w220-w221/226463-aftermarket-extended-warranty-vehicle-50k-miles-2.html#post2618273