Blobsta
Active Member
I expect this should go in the Projects section but I am too lowly to be able to post there so we'll start with the cleaning of it and see what happens.
I already have a CLK350 Sport and it's perfect(ish) for what I need, my wife has a Mini Clubman S which is less than perfect as 'mum' cars go but she loves it. She's taking the kids and my cousin (who weirdly is also called Claire and also drives a Mini) to a festival at the end of the month, so there's no two ways about it we need more boot space. I looked at renting something but it's really pricey so I decided to "simply buy something" instead. For reasons still somewhat unbeknownst to myself I have a soft spot for the old ML and one popped up not far from me the other evening for sale so I decided I should take a look.
It's an ML320 with the 3.2 V6 petrol, There is suspiciously little rust on it too, you can see a little in the bottom of the rear arches and that's about it. 2001 making it the earlier shape, all terrain tyres, 147k MOT until October, zero service history as the book has been lost, but has all other books, manuals CoC etc. and it is utterly disgusting inside!
There are two keys, [listed as that in the advert]. Well, yes, by definition there are two keys, one remote flip key (inoperable) and one cut from a JMA blank without an immobiliser chip. More on that another time but at least the remote key is now working. More importantly for me was the fact that this was being sold by a grandson who's granddad had been told he could no longer drive as his eyesight wasn't up to it. Granddad bought the car new in 2001 and is the only one to have driven it really in all that time. Every tax disc aside from the DVLA issued one when new was bought in the same Sydenham Post Office.
Picked it up Saturday morning and started the cleaning. It's had a fair wash down of the plastics, eight changes of water cleaning the steering wheel alone, a first pass over the carpets with a wet vac and the drug dealer tints removed from the front windows. Currently the glove box is soaking in my garage sink to try and get the rusty chain that has become one with the flocking to let go.
I have cleaned the small rear seat as a test but they all need to come out to be done properly. Anyway, here's some of the pics:
I already have a CLK350 Sport and it's perfect(ish) for what I need, my wife has a Mini Clubman S which is less than perfect as 'mum' cars go but she loves it. She's taking the kids and my cousin (who weirdly is also called Claire and also drives a Mini) to a festival at the end of the month, so there's no two ways about it we need more boot space. I looked at renting something but it's really pricey so I decided to "simply buy something" instead. For reasons still somewhat unbeknownst to myself I have a soft spot for the old ML and one popped up not far from me the other evening for sale so I decided I should take a look.
It's an ML320 with the 3.2 V6 petrol, There is suspiciously little rust on it too, you can see a little in the bottom of the rear arches and that's about it. 2001 making it the earlier shape, all terrain tyres, 147k MOT until October, zero service history as the book has been lost, but has all other books, manuals CoC etc. and it is utterly disgusting inside!
There are two keys, [listed as that in the advert]. Well, yes, by definition there are two keys, one remote flip key (inoperable) and one cut from a JMA blank without an immobiliser chip. More on that another time but at least the remote key is now working. More importantly for me was the fact that this was being sold by a grandson who's granddad had been told he could no longer drive as his eyesight wasn't up to it. Granddad bought the car new in 2001 and is the only one to have driven it really in all that time. Every tax disc aside from the DVLA issued one when new was bought in the same Sydenham Post Office.
Picked it up Saturday morning and started the cleaning. It's had a fair wash down of the plastics, eight changes of water cleaning the steering wheel alone, a first pass over the carpets with a wet vac and the drug dealer tints removed from the front windows. Currently the glove box is soaking in my garage sink to try and get the rusty chain that has become one with the flocking to let go.
I have cleaned the small rear seat as a test but they all need to come out to be done properly. Anyway, here's some of the pics:
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