It was my S60 in the same situation for me, just heard I'm not being made redundant so thats great news, so once we catch back up may be able to buy somthing a bit newer and if the new to me Mercedes does me half as well as my S60 did there will be smiles all around.
Yes SarahAnn200 your not kidding, lost some good lads from my team though, we all started at the same time so were a tight bunch, I have been through it far to many times in the past and got fed up of contracting so took the steady money long term rather than the boom and bust of contracting.
The facelift should have less chance of any electrical issues , at those mileages both are going to need “bits “
I know buying at my price point I will need to spend but found another e class estate with 115k on it but he wont budge from 2k for it, plus ideally I wanted a 320 but the 270 would also be ideal, the o7 plate car is a 320 but its the elegance model so from reading up, heard they handle as good as your Nans armchair I think was the exact quote , I dont want to go hooning around but as we are out in the country it may be a bit wollowy like some american car, may be I'm over thinking it, but the E270 is in my fav dark grey but know the facelift should be more reliable . got to stop reading online or I will never pull the trigger
I always use the MOT checker its a great site to get some inside info, also the goverment site for spec, tells you when the log book was last changed, so the guy telling me he has owned the car for years and the log book was swapped a few weeks ago caught him right out. I do favour the 05 E270 for £1700, but that was the one I initially posted with the ABS light on, did my research and sensor was a bargain price so we agreed £1600, he gets the fault fixed by his mate now wont budge from £1700 so I hate that, I'm old school I turn up when I say and if a price has been agreed that should be the end of it, I never asked him to get it fixed I was prepaired to take a chance, and good point on the DPF, when we lived in France came to the UK to sell the Mrs SLK and buy a van to bring our things back, all I found where wrecks so ended up buying a Vauxhall Vectra SRI CDTI Estate (We all got to slum it now and then) sure enough on the way back from the Midlands to North wales the DPF light came on and it dropped into limp mode, a 600 quid bill later and it never felt right, vowed I would never get another vauxhall ever again so lesson learned and I'm sure the Facelift 07 E320 would have a DPF?, so still swings it to the E270 but his price increase has done my head in, so may offer him 1600 take it or leave it and that may make the decision for me?You know thinking of it and considering SBC, some newer cars will have a DPF.
I'd rather have SBC than a DPF any day of the week, devils work those things.
Check the MOT history of anything you are going yo buy, if buying private see if the seller has had the car a while and has some service/repair history on the car.
Always a bonus seeing how the car has been looked after.
Watch out for the "selling for my mum/sister/aunt" brigade who are clearly dealing in cars and usually give you some bull about the V5 and history.
Just assume everyone is telling you nonsense and do your own research, there are cars out there.
My facelift 2009 E320cdi doesn’t have a dpf. If the exhaust is pitch black inside it doesn’t have one
Or have a working one lol
Ain’t that the truth buddy
. Right decision made, Mrs Roberts did not like the look of the 07 E320 elegance, said with all that wood it was an old mans car (I'm 54), glad she thinks I'm still young lol, she never liked theblue interior of the E220 either and loved the 05 E270 that was my original squeeze, got the guy to forget the £100 he paid to get the ABS done so happy, just got that lovely drive Aberdeen to Sheffield and return, why are the trains so bloody expensive?
Yes defo Im mad, but nothing local in my price range and Volvo just sold leaving us car less and living in the countryside a car is a must, the way I look at it is I'm back on Furlough so getting paid for sitting on my fat ass so why not, cheapest option was Megabus but they only go to Manchester, train was £167 hire car is 50 quid plus fuel, at least I will enjoy the views travelling back and forth. I did a job on a Nuclear Sub so was driving every week Ellon to Plymouth and return home come Friday to do it all again
Ha ha Patrick I will admit defo mad ha ha what I find if you buy local cars the corrosion due to the extra sault can cause lots of issues, may be Im paranoid, but i like an adventure and like every other car I have viewed with no lights on, they usually rear their ugly head sooner rather than later, and it will probably be the ABS ring, but a great way to test out my new iCarsoft scanner, I love a challenge
