CL500 advice.

[MikeInWimbledon]

Reliability compared to IS250

Following on from my post pointing out that a quarter of W215's have been scrapped in the last five years, if you do a look up on the much cheaper IS250, you'll see that hardly any of them have been scrapped over the same time - despite the fact that many of them will have had hard, high-mileage lives:

Here's the IS250
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=is250


Switching up to the, truly horrible but comparable, SC430, again virtually all of them are still on the road, with only 5% scrapped in the last five years:
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=sc430

 

[def90cars]

Following on from my post pointing out that a quarter of W215's have been scrapped in the last five years, if you do a look up on the much cheaper IS250, you'll see that hardly any of them have been scrapped over the same time - despite the fact that many of them will have had hard, high-mileage lives:

Here's the IS250
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=is250


Switching up to the, truly horrible but comparable, SC430, again virtually all of them are still on the road, with only 5% scrapped in the last five years:
https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=✓&q=sc430

Point 1: Good research and very interesting

Point 2: stay away from howmanyleft.co.uk - whole days can vanish before you know it.

 

[Mr Kripling]

Well CL was diagnosed with a sticky valve in the OSF strut. Phil at Welwyn Merx has replaced the strut, and the supply pipe (seized connection) and we are now all sorted!

Bit odd since there aren't any valves in the strut...

 

[Noelmc]

plunger travel sensor