2004 W211 E55, silver

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I've found a replacement, so I'm putting this up for sale here initially.
2004 W211 E55, silver, 124k miles. I've owned it for 4 years, and have spent a lot on getting it right in that time.
MOT is due in March 2025, I'm planning to get it done in late Feb, or can do it prior to sale if there's interest before then.
Price : £8500, but I am open to offers, and can offer a significant discount to a member on here.
Contact : 07810347032, I'm happy to discuss a price, but I'm not interested in offers prior to viewing.
Location : North East London, near Walthamstow

Specs:
- Supercharged 5.4 V8, 476bhp, not mapped as far as I know, but these are highly reliable and another 10-15% can be eked out if you wanted to go there
- Exhaust mods (by previous owners) : resonators and secondary cats have been removed, x-pipe installed. Slightly louder than standard, doesn't drone and isn't anti-social.
- 5 speed auto box, generally very reliable and more than up to handling the power.
- Other options inlcuded : panoramic roof, dynamic seats, front seat cooling, rear sunblinds (manual on rear doors, remote blind on the rear screen), phone prep in centre console, navigation system, folding rear seats (I'm not fully sure if this was optional or standard but it is very handy).
- Huge standard specification on these : full leather, cruise control, heated seats, 4-zone climate control, Harmon Kardon stereo, air suspension with height adjustment and 3x damper stiffness, parking sensors etc.

Other good stuff:
- I found a local indy in London who knows these well, and have sent it there for most of the work over the past few years. It wasn't cheap, but was worth it IMO.
- mechanically excellent, all jobs have been done as soon as they showed signs of being needed. No knocks or clunks, no airmatic issues, not smoky, no oily/fuel smells etc.
- leather seats have been recoloured and reconditioned in 2024, the blue inserts are retained, but they look much fresher now.
- the over-engineered 2-cup holder for the centre console is included
- bluetooth retrofit (MR12Volt box, behind the OEM head unit, taps into the fibre-optic system). 6-disc CD changer included.
- battery cut off system installed (manual/auto/remote cutoff system, with engine running detection), also a bluetooth battery monitor.
- lots of preventative jobs done, e.g. suspension joints, propshaft donut, diff oil, rocker gaskets, fuel pumps replaced, rubber seals replenished
- full details available on excel, and a 2" folder of receipts.
- 4 matching tyres, all with good tread, wheels refurbed about a year ago.
- tracker installed.

Not so good stuff: I'm providing this list to cut down the "find the fault" time that seems to be a feature of buying any used car these days
- some cosmetic dings here and there in keeping with a 20y old car and 1 rust bubble on the drivers door which needs treatment.
- arches have light rust, and front chassis rails are showing signs of corrosion, but are very treatable at this stage. If you're not aware of the chassis rail topic, I can talk you through it, its a design flaw, and most W211s will have corrosion in this area by now.
- panoramic roof doesn't open (common fault with the cables or motor). Annoyingly, I bought the car with a spare roof to be fitted (!), but when I went to get the job done, the garage claimed that someone had collected it, and I decided to live with it rather than have someone butcher the top of the car for little benefit. The electric sunblinds work perfectly on both sunroofs.
- dynamic seats have an air leak and work intermittently, I have investigated this and believe there is a leak on one of the seats. All other electric seat adustments work 100%.
- battery drain fault, it will drain the battery over about 5 days. This is a common fault on these, and I have the battery cutoff system installed to manage it.

In summary, this is a good base if you are looking for an E55 to rack up a few miles in. It needs a little bit of work if you want to get it 100%, but I'm happy to agree a price that reflect this. I've replaced this with an E55 estate, and it took me quite a while to find one which was comparable in condition to this car (and even then it had plenty of faults which I'm working through).