Advice on Buying E63 2009 to 2012 Not Facelift
 

Hello Guys,

Im planning to buy E63 w212 prefacelift model, and what im interested in are experience with owners, are they reliable do they have some factory issues which should be checked before buying, some other issues?

Thanx to all!

Overall pretty reliable after my multiple airmatic failures were eventually resolved. Couple of rattles from speaker grills front and back, but its been there since the early 20s thousand mileage. A few brand new 2018 Es I drove recently had that too so I gave up bothering the dealer to fix.

From what I have learnt from my re-search on these cars,2009-early 2011 are plagued by head bolt issues so be careful on that. There are web sites where you can put the Vin numbers and see if it's in the effected range or not.

Head bolts were updated in 2010 for the 2011 production run, so that's your safest bet to avoid the head bolt issue. However ...owning a pre-head bolt update car does not ensure that the head bolts will fail. My 2011 has 86k miles on it and still running hard! I love this motor, and the car!https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mbw...573eb88e40.jpg

Thx all for answers, i know about headbolt issue and some other recalls i found on internet. If someo has other advices feel free to comment.

I m now looking at one model that is from 02/2010 probably with headbolt issue, it has 87000 kilometers and nice equipment list https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/d...l?id=255251855

My panoramic roof shade has failed twice in two years and that is with very little use(maybe once a month). Each time the cost of repair was about $1000.00 U.S. Otherwise the car has been good, now with 71,000 miles. Uses about one quart of oil every 2500 miles which is better than average.