SvtAmg

Who has a boat load of miles on their AMG? Just wondering how they have treated you guys into six digit #'s.

RenntechE55

I have 88k miles and I think Chiromikey has 120k IIRC , not sure who else is in the high miles club .

Marcus Frost

My $.02.

I know you did not specify the reason for the question, so I am going to assume you are shopping for one.

While having a high mileage E55 is not a bad thing, if your budget limits you only to purchasing the very bottom of the barrel example - IE an '03 with 6 figure mileage, I do not think this car is for you. Maintenance, consumables, and general upkeep is expensive on this car and if spending $20k on a car is already a stretch, then the bills to keep what originally was a $90-$100k Mercedes (maintenance, consumables, and general upkeep do not depreciate over time) is likely going to be more than you can chew.

-m

SvtAmg

valid point, the only reason I am asking is because I am about to purchase an 04 e55 with 72,000 on it. I am wondering how much more driving I will get out of it before major overhaul becomes an issue.

CharlyE500

06 E55 79k miles now

bobgodd

2004 with just shy of 70,000. I just took it on a 1300 mile road trip; solid.

Though my alternator did take a poopy on me about eight thousand miles ago.

rolngta

05' E55 with 64,000+ on it.

220S

Along Marcus's line of thinking, maybe the question should be: how many miles and also how much money spent for those miles.

Estate55

06Estate, 74500!

dayshay

i had an 00 e55 that bought in 01 and sold 3 years later with 90k+ on it. thank god for warranties! la to vegas few times, and other trips to tahoe, i could count up to over a minute (counting each number slowly, per second, not rattling them off nervously) where I had it pegged at whatever top speed was limited to, and not counting the time to get up to that speed. that b+>t^h could hold that thing up at top speed without flinching, only thing to slow down for was traffic. wow, those were the days. miss that car. that blk/blk beast ran STRONG. try getting up to 160(ish..whatever top speed was limited to), THEN counting off each second you have that thing bouncing off the revv limiter for as long as you can before having to slow for other vehicles while blasting barry manilow (just for the comedy factor). fun times, fun times. way back, same thing, but this time car loaded with new hotties bringing back to l.a. miss that car. did i say that already? ha ha.

GT40MkI

I put 35k miles on my 05 from January through June (70k-105k), then bought another car to work in (I miss driving the E every day, and it's hard as hell to walk past it to get in the beater every day.-almost feels like I'm cheating on a beauty queen with a prostitute.)

LazyE55

2005 with 104,xxx miles

gago1101

my 05 E55 has 125K miles. looks and runs perfect. still kills anything on the road

gago1101

Forgot to mention, I bought the car when had only 60K, now 125K. only money spent was for regular maintenance.

CharlyE500

WoW ! I think you are the champ here with the milleage. So u didnt have to fix anything like engine mount, ball joint, some common stuff ?

E55AMGGG04

Nice thread. I just jumped on 37k today.

gago1101

I have not changed anything on the car. I am planning on changing the spark plugs now though

gago1101

here it is

izzyz28

That's fantastic! I've had mine for 13K(bought it in May with 62K), and I'm already making a good dent into the "stuff that should never fail but fails anyway" list. Replaced the I/C pump, bought new wheels because one spontaneously cracked, exhaust manifold magically broke in half, and the dynamic seats and wipers occasionally stop working. I'm just waiting for the alternator and the entire Airmatic and SBC systems to fail.

slownrusty

While I think these engines are solid for a lot of hard or abused miles...things independent of the drivetrain can no wrong that would cause ownership to be expensive, stressful and even give most potential owners second thoughts.

My car at 47,000 miles went in for Dynamic seat issues, tiny paint flaw and the Command unit had vertical lines across it similar to an old failing computer monitor...total cost for these repairs were over $7,000, total time in the shop 3+ weeks.

Yasin

TurboToyzz

I was at an auction a few weeks ago and MB financial was selling an 08 E63 lease return with 80k miles!!

X2Board

80K on what was probably a 10K a year lease, bring the vaseline at turn in time.

Forrest Gump 9

No *****!!

Mine is '04 with 84K. Still make me smile everytime I drive it.

Meeyatch1

A lot of that depends on the previous owner(s) of the car. You could have a creampuff that was driven by a retired couple who never really stepped on the gas and maintained it by the book, or you could have one of the several E55s that are regularly drag raced and beat down and redlined every day with not so much done on the maintenance side. Do you see my point? It really is hard to say how long the exact car you are looking at will last without knowing how it was treated and maintained during the first 72,000 miles of its life. A quality Pre-Purchase Inspection would be a very smart thing to pay to have done by a qualified shop or Mercedes Benz dealer. They will know what to look for in most cases to tell you if you have a creampuff or a lemon. Regardless, if you buy it, I would figure doing a full change of all fluids and filters just as a precautionary measure if you plan to keep the car for a long time. That is what I did with my E63.

Good luck, and enjoy the ride!

rondocap

I don't have an E55, but an S55 - and I have just reached 155,000 miles. They have differences, but still there are a lot of common parts between the E and S and technologies, so you can have a read here and see what can happen: (Ball joints, Engine mounts, etc)

https://mbworld.org/forums/s55-amg-s...y-shocked.html