Points Of View Please

[robert.saunders]

My A140 was a similar green if not the same shade, it's very pleasing on the eye

 

[imadoofus]

Right, so what would it cost per annum to get an E320 CDI serviced at a main dealer? (40,000 miles = 2 services, I assume)

TIA

 

[MBManInKen]

Here's a nice looking green one.

Well done, that is exactly the kind of green I had in mind. I like that colour.

 

[hawk20]

You're not going to put the dogs and luggage in there at the same time are you??

Yes. We will take them on holiday with us. Hence the need for the E.

 

[hawk20]

Right, so what would it cost per annum to get an E320 CDI serviced at a main dealer? (40,000 miles = 2 services, I assume)

TIA

My S320cdi cost about £235 for the A service after 15,000 miles and £444 for the B service after 30k miles. Would have cost less if had brought my own oil. Could have gone longer between services using ASSYST but I chose to have a pit stop at 15k

 

[hawk20]

I'm surprised you haven't suggested the A-class? They are, as you have said, just as roomy as an E-class and very efficient etc, because who needs a bigger car

To clear up any confusion here, I have never said anything so stupid as that nobody needs a bigger car than an A class. It would be odd if I did having owned numerous E's an ML an S class, a Honda CRV, two Granadas and a couple of big Volvo estates. If it weren't for the govt and social pressures I think the ML might well be my chosen mode of transport. And if I did not have dogs, nothing for me has ever come close to the 18 months of owning and driving an S class. In that time I did 24,000 miles of private completely non-essential private motoring. Just woke each day thinking up excuses to go for a drive. Magic.

The whole govt approach ignores that some people need big cars either because they have children or dogs, or hobbies like camping, caravanning, boating, horses etc etc.
I love everything about big cars except for the cost to buy them, the fuel consumption, the taxation and the depreciation!