1 0ff clk 55 amg on auto

[peterg1965]

It looks good, but the seats don't 'do' it for me. If I was looking for a CLK55 W208 that car would stand out as probably the most expensive in the country. Accepting that it may have unique attributes, I simply wouldn't pay extra for it. If I thought I could get near £11K for my well speced 2001 CLK55 I would sell it!

Regardless, good luck with the sale and let us know how you get on. And I agree with wemorgan, list the full history, state of the tyres etc etc

 

[sawyer]

2001 51 Reg MERCEDES-BENZ CLK CLK55 AMG 2dr Tiptronic Auto Coupe (trade)

Harrison Howard Motor Company Ltd £14000

• 50,000 miles
• Automatic
• Silver
• Petrol

2 Doors, Automatic, Coupe, Petrol, 50,000 miles, Metallic Silver, 1 Owner. Full Service History, Alloy wheels, ABS, Cruise control, Electric windows, Power assisted steering, Remote locking, Adjustable

 

[wemorgan]

.....and he's not sold his either

£14k is too much, but bear in mind that trade cars are more expensive than privates as they have overheads like warranties etc.

BTW I like your car and think it could sell for decent money if your could prove the credentials you're claiming.

ps. are you going to make the corrections to your advertisement?

 

[buccal]

2001 51 Reg MERCEDES-BENZ CLK CLK55 AMG 2dr Tiptronic Auto Coupe (trade)


Harrison Howard Motor Company Ltd £14000

• 50,000 miles
• Automatic
• Silver
• Petrol

2 Doors, Automatic, Coupe, Petrol, 50,000 miles, Metallic Silver, 1 Owner. Full Service History, Alloy wheels, ABS, Cruise control, Electric windows, Power assisted steering, Remote locking, Adjustable

Only been for sale for about 2 years, i kid you not.

 

[buccal]

You could always post the glasses valuation......

 

[sawyer]

A silver one sold on piston heads about a month ago private it had done 10000 miles less but was up for 13995. best thing i can say is if any of you live in bristol come and have look

 

[buccal]

C'mon Peter i'm sure you'd like to pitch in here on 55 values

 

[buccal]

Nice spec, no mods and from a trader:

USED MERCEDES-BENZ CLK 55 COUPE AMG AUTOMATIC, Bournemouth, Dorset

NOT sold.

Really i should be looking at this myself but i don't have the time

 

[abs]

i really like the car, colour and the racing seats.


Good luck with your sale.

 

[peterg1965]

OK, a bit more perspective on W208 CLK values. I paid £9500 for mine in February this year; 2001 (51 plate) 68000 miles silver on black standard car with comand, sunroof, heated seats, parktronic, xeons (sic), telephone prep, 6CD, full Merc SH etc. Bought it from a trader who had it for sale at £10995 and had it for about 3 months. It is not perfect - rear arches need sorting hepefully under the rust warranty in August. I thought I paid top price for it at the time. I have watched the values of these cars on Autotrader and they probably haven't come down that much in the last 4 months. If I were selling mine today privately I would advertise for £8500 and hopefully get about £8000 for it.

When I was looking at an E Class estate (as the GL replacement)a few weeks ago at Stratstone South Lakes I asked the salesman to give me a p/x price on my CLK55. He liked it and was keen to take it in to stock as he was short of cars (not that I was selling I just wanted a valuation). He offered me £6250 for it, I didn't bite, but I take that figure as bottom book price for my car - dealers are not known for their generous p/x values, particularly Stratstone. I also ran it through webuyyourcar.com and it gave me a price of £6250 as well. I guess Stratstone would have valeted my CLK, sorted the arches and put it up on their AUC scheme for about £9500 (maybe slightly more). Why some traders and individuals think these cars are worth more than £10K is beyond me, they are afterall, two generations old now.

That should give a current indication of W208 CLK55 Coupe values, from my perspective anyway.

 

[wemorgan]

A useful post Peter. Though I fear you and other posters are wasting your time trying to help the OP. As he clearly fails to take all the advice onboard. It's a shame, because if he could properly document the provenance of the car and correct all the spelling mistakes he'd have a decent car to sell.

 

[Will]

People just haven't caught up with how much these W208 CLK55s have dropped recently

Average examples were £10k a year ago, £8k six months back and now about £6k.

This one earlier today:

2000 MERCEDES CLK55 AMG AUTO SILVER on eBay, also, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 02-Jun-09 13:12:40 BST)

1 previous owner, 76k miles.

No faults apart from some minor rust blisters on the rear arches which 80% of these cars have anyway. Try and get it done under Mobilo at some point or just get it done for a few hundred quid locally (it's an old/cheap car now anyway).

As nice as the blue one is, I can't see it being worth double? Maybe a couple of grand more if it really is 100% mint (no rust at all, new tyres, just had plugs/discs etc?).

I quite like the colour in a way (it's different) but I'm not sure it adds all that much to the value!

Best of luck with the sale regardless

Will

 

[Howard]

I'll give you £6300 for the car Peter

 

[buccal]

Good post Peter,

Your right Will it wasn't that long ago (circa two years) when only the 100,000 milers were below 15k.