Good morning and thank you to anyone who takes the time to read this post. I am glad to have found you.
Things are changing work wise for my husband. He is now required to travel 3 days a week (a 160 mile round trip mostly motorway) into an office. This will be for about 18 months and then he will be back working from home again.
We currently own one car, a Toyota Aygo (yes I know, I am embarrassed!). We now need another, for his new commute and an estate model at that (for skip runs, dogs, doing up the house etc). A car that will happily do a fair few motorway miles with a big boot. We do not want to spend a fortune on this temporary arrangement.
So, I started looking. I have found VW golf/passat estates and Toyota Avensis in our price range of about £3500. All with plus 100K on the clock and around the 08/09 plate mark. These makes should, in theory have some longevity to them and be able to go for another 50000+ miles, I think.
Then I saw it, a 2008 Mercedes 2.1 DCI C220 Avantgaard estate near to the 3k mark. 120K on the clock. One owner, FSH, recent MOT with no advisories....
A few years back my husband owned from new a 2003 Mercedes C230 Avantgaard estate and adored it. The turbo and suspension went and it ended up being sold as parts and towed away four years ago (he nearly sobbed)
We are aware that if things go wrong, it's expensive (with a capital E!) but am I stupid to think (please don't hold back), that a well looked after Merc should be able to clock up a fair few thousand miles on the motorways with, fingers crossed, few or no problems if we continue to look after it this end? Or is it the VW or Toyotas of this world for us? Why would you know? How would you know? lol?
Thank you, yours a completely conflicted, and tortured soul over this!
Things are changing work wise for my husband. He is now required to travel 3 days a week (a 160 mile round trip mostly motorway) into an office. This will be for about 18 months and then he will be back working from home again.
We currently own one car, a Toyota Aygo (yes I know, I am embarrassed!). We now need another, for his new commute and an estate model at that (for skip runs, dogs, doing up the house etc). A car that will happily do a fair few motorway miles with a big boot. We do not want to spend a fortune on this temporary arrangement.
So, I started looking. I have found VW golf/passat estates and Toyota Avensis in our price range of about £3500. All with plus 100K on the clock and around the 08/09 plate mark. These makes should, in theory have some longevity to them and be able to go for another 50000+ miles, I think.
Then I saw it, a 2008 Mercedes 2.1 DCI C220 Avantgaard estate near to the 3k mark. 120K on the clock. One owner, FSH, recent MOT with no advisories....
A few years back my husband owned from new a 2003 Mercedes C230 Avantgaard estate and adored it. The turbo and suspension went and it ended up being sold as parts and towed away four years ago (he nearly sobbed)
We are aware that if things go wrong, it's expensive (with a capital E!) but am I stupid to think (please don't hold back), that a well looked after Merc should be able to clock up a fair few thousand miles on the motorways with, fingers crossed, few or no problems if we continue to look after it this end? Or is it the VW or Toyotas of this world for us? Why would you know? How would you know? lol?
Thank you, yours a completely conflicted, and tortured soul over this!