What's the Parker's valuation for Mike's S212, for comparison?
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C/S - Comfort or Standard (a lot thought it meant Sport) were the gearbox settings only. Comfort sets off in second gear.That's interesting. Yes, the S211s all had rear air springs, but unless you have full Airmatic there is no means of varying the front suspension height.
The option code for full Airmatic (like my 2003 - late 2003 reg, 804 MY build) is 489, and with that there's no 'lowered' setting for the suspension, just normal and raised. The button you refer to as for 'comfort' mode is I think to select the gearbox mode (C or S); it doesn't affect the suspension. However, there are three spring stiffness adjustments, and in the stiffest (Sport II) the car drops by 15mm all round, so that is effectively a lowered mode.
Page 250 of my Owner's Manual doesn't deal with the suspension, though, so it may well be that later Airmatic cars (805 build onwards) than mine had a third, lowered, suspension height mode. ISTR that some of my others may have had, but I've had so many (seven in all) that my previous six all rather blur into one.
I agree re the pricing of the S211 E500...the price does seem a couple of grand too much.I forgot to add two caveats to that. One is that the W212 E500 is so rare that valuing them is a bit like answering the question "How long is a piece of string?" The other is that other valuations are available, and based on past experience, I suspect Cazana would be up around the £18K mark.
Way overpriced for the miles.I agree re the pricing of the S211 E500...the price does seem a couple of grand too much.
There's an E55 (on autotrader) that's only £550 and seems more sensibly priced. It's older and has done more miles and is a quite different beast, to the 500. But still.....
The E500 or E55?Way overpriced for the miles.
55.The E500 or E55?
Bugger, that's similar miles to mine
In this modern age of computers, then any service carried out by a main dealer would be on record.Can't help thinking that the seller of the car in post 16 lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land or has been drinking; the Parkers valuation for that car is just under £5k. The MoT history is OK; not brilliant, but nothing too serious.
I've spoken to the owner; he says there's a full, stamped up, service history to 2017, when he got it, but he never bothered to get the book stamped up, though he has some invoices. Apart from servicing, the only thing he's had done to it was a new Airmatic pump.
I told him what it was valued at; he'd rather keep it than sell it for that, it's worth a lot more, that's only my opinion. No point arguing, so I wished him luck and left it at that.
I'm out.
Great colour, shame about the massive price.Another has popped up, this time a 5.5L facelift S211. The price is quite ambitious, considering the advertising price of Mikeinwimbledon's 29k S212, but it's a low mileage one owner example, UK model not an import and with a FMBSH.
Remarkably, the black S211 E500 from a private seller in Coulsdon is still on sale at the same £9,950. How much must it cost to keep it on Autotrader for 9 months!?The E500 seller is asking close to decent E55 money. If it was close by, I'd go and see it just to find out what the service history shows has actually been done, but he's fifty miles away, and that's too far to go 'on spec'.
In the past I've found Parkers valuations quite accurate. You can't argue with stupid people who Know What It's Worth, though, so I didn't bother. He may find a mug, and if so, good luck to him.
Now sold?Remarkably, the black S211 E500 from a private seller in Coulsdon is still on sale at the same £9,950. How much must it cost to keep it on Autotrader for 9 months!?
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