S211 E55K Estate on AT

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Just thought I add a photo of mine, its a really good example, very clean just gave it an oil change and filters. Coming out of hibernation from next month in time for a summer run. View attachment 141313

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Now that is what a V8 should sound like
Lovely example and congrats.

 

[badgx]

Yeah The E63 really is a beauty, drives SO well. Having owned E55k estates previously when this came up locally I had to have a look!


Dam thats stunning! What been done to make it sound like that?!

Not much, just the secondary CAT and resonator delete with H pipe configuration. I believe the overall exhaust system is pretty much the same as E55k S211, same size rear silencer too

 

[badgx]

Now that is what a V8 should sound like
Lovely example and congrats.

Thanks buddy

 

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I've made what I feel is a fair offer of £10k on the 2004 E55K on Ebay up for £11.5k but the seller has declined and asked for a bit more. I think it is worth £10k but not sure it is worth any more to me than £10k at the moment.

There is a later 2007 E63 only 20 mins up the road from me on Ebay:

Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

It has LPG which I am not looking for and not so fussed about MPG as don't do so many miles these days. Looks like a pretty well looked after car though from the existing owner since 2015. With over £11k spent in servicing/maintenance so could be a good option possibly. No harm in going to take a look only 20 mins away. A few extra miles but I don't mind that and the same price pretty much as the 2004 E55K I made a £10k offer on.

 

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These cars can definitely eat some cash so helps when a fair bit has been taken care of prior to purchase.

 

[SteveFromAvantgarde]

Its a lovely car, but its massively overbook. I'd say £10k is about right for this. At +100k miles its rattly camshaft territory too.

A one off colour doesn't make it an absolute fortune. Nice though.

 

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Its a lovely car, but its massively overbook. I'd say £10k is about right for this. At +100k miles its rattly camshaft territory too.

A one off colour doesn't make it an absolute fortune. Nice though.

The E55 or the E63?

 

[rockits]

Looks like the E63 has had a rattle diagnosed and resolved. Does that happen more to M156's or affects the M113K's too?

I had cam lobes replaced by Olly @ PCS on my R129 SL60 years ago I think as the OERM plastic ones started to fail.

 

[DavidL]

I've made what I feel is a fair offer of £10k on the 2004 E55K on Ebay up for £11.5k but the seller has declined and asked for a bit more. I think it is worth £10k but not sure it is worth any more to me than £10k at the moment.

There is a later 2007 E63 only 20 mins up the road from me on Ebay:

Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

It has LPG which I am not looking for and not so fussed about MPG as don't do so many miles these days. Looks like a pretty well looked after car though from the existing owner since 2015. With over £11k spent in servicing/maintenance so could be a good option possibly. No harm in going to take a look only 20 mins away. A few extra miles but I don't mind that and the same price pretty much as the 2004 E55K I made a £10k offer on.

He's daft to turn that down. We love them but the buyer pool is small. Mine sold for 8700 on 155k miles iirc and that was hard going. I had no interest at 10k at all and it was a decent car and well looked after.
I'd sit tight for a while, I think they might come around.
E63 is nice. I like lpg, my rr classic ran on it for miles and miles although I haven't reinstated it since an engine rebuild (and the petrol mpg is awful!) but I'd look carefully at whether that engine takes lpg well. I have no idea. The rover v8 is fine but for instance the JLR 4.2 s/c engine needs very careful setup and valvelube etc and lots are not running well at all.

 

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He's daft to turn that down. We love them but the buyer pool is small. Mine sold for 8700 on 155k miles iirc and that was hard going. I had no interest at 10k at all and it was a decent car and well looked after.
I'd sit tight for a while, I think they might come around.
E63 is nice. I like lpg, my rr classic ran on it for miles and miles although I haven't reinstated it since an engine rebuild (and the petrol mpg is awful!) but I'd look carefully at whether that engine takes lpg well. I have no idea. The rover v8 is fine but for instance the JLR 4.2 s/c engine needs very careful setup and valvelube etc and lots are not running well at all.

Thanks. I thought £10k was a more than fair offer as I know I'll be sinking a few k into it over the first year I expect. No wheel refurb or even centre caps replaced to me suggests a less than fastidious owner. It is a car to be used and more of a work tool for me so I'm less precious about marks, scratches and general bodywork as long as not rusty but always good to try to gauge what you are getting yourself in to.

I think if I were in the sellers shoes I would have taken the £10k as he wants £750 more so I'd not be so bothered about the £750 if I were selling. I've suggested I can pay then collect this weekend with no hassle and if someone said that to me it would be a done deal. I can't imagine there is a long queue of buyers to take on a 2004 5.5 litre supercharged V8 Estate with 122k miles.

I'd guess the E63 is running OK on LPG as seems the current owner has run it on LPG OK. Has had the car since 2015 so suggests it runs OK. Not sure if it is a good thing or bad thing but neutral to me unless it causes issues. I suppose if you ignore it and don't use it so much then the car just runs on petrol as normal regardless. I guess using it a little and often to keep it working without issues is prudent.

 

[SteveFromAvantgarde]

The E63.

 

[SteveFromAvantgarde]

Does that happen more to M156's or affects the M113K's too?

Only the M156. The 113s you can tune and mod to high heaven and they never complain. Absolutely bomb proof engine. Love them.

 

[SL03WLY]

I've made what I feel is a fair offer of £10k on the 2004 E55K on Ebay up for £11.5k but the seller has declined and asked for a bit more. I think it is worth £10k but not sure it is worth any more to me than £10k at the moment.

There is a later 2007 E63 only 20 mins up the road from me on Ebay:

Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Mercedes e63 AMG Estate G-Tronic Auto 5dr 507 BHP with LPG Conversion at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

It has LPG which I am not looking for and not so fussed about MPG as don't do so many miles these days. Looks like a pretty well looked after car though from the existing owner since 2015. With over £11k spent in servicing/maintenance so could be a good option possibly. No harm in going to take a look only 20 mins away. A few extra miles but I don't mind that and the same price pretty much as the 2004 E55K I made a £10k offer on.

Good as I heard (Word on the Street) LPG is soon to be discontinuted in UK?

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

These cars can definitely eat some cash so helps when a fair bit has been taken care of prior to purchase.

Four years / 20k miles worth of maintenance for £11k (excluding a set of new tyres)

Call it £3k a year on a car doing 5k miles a year.

Sounds right on a two decade old AMG, surely?

Not bad when you realise that, if you can get it for £10k, it's almost certainly not depreciated - at all - over those four years.

It's not as if these things have spent a life being driven by a little old lady to the shops and Church on Sunday.

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Four years / 20k miles worth of maintenance for £11k (excluding a set of new tyres)

Call it £3k a year on a car doing 5k miles a year.

Sounds right on a two decade old AMG, surely?

Not bad when you realise that, if you can get it for £10k, it's almost certainly not depreciated - at all - over those four years.

It's not as if these things have spent a life being driven by a little old lady to the shops and Church on Sunday.

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I wouldn't say that £11k over 3 years is particularly cost effective though comparable to other similar performance cars I've had over many years. I must have had circa 20 around this kind of level and none have cost anything like £11k over 3 years. Some of those were less reliable and not as tough as an S211 E55K.

I think the biggest bill I've ever had in any one years has been £3k but I didn't see that every year as that was a one off. Maybe I've just been a little lucky with the examples I had or didn't keep them long enough to find out maybe.

 

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Good as I heard (Word on the Street) LPG is soon to be discontinuted in UK?

Well I guess it isn't so popular now as maybe it once was.

Can't have any ways for the oil companies and govts not to be able to make a stack to fill up their back pockets though!

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

I wouldn't say that £11k over 3 years is particularly cost effective though comparable to other similar performance cars I've had over many years. I must have had circa 20 around this kind of level and none have cost anything like £11k over 3 years. Some of those were less reliable and not as tough as an S211 E55K.

I think the biggest bill I've ever had in any one years has been £3k but I didn't see that every year as that was a one off. Maybe I've just been a little lucky with the examples I had or didn't keep them long enough to find out maybe.

Pretty much the same as my experience with repairs on 10-15 year old but lower mileage cars. But I don’t think that £3k a year is surprising for someone with a 20 year old AMG, especially when they do odd things like getting the garage to deal with a roof rack.

It’s still not too far away from someone spending £2k on depreciation and a grand on routine maintenance. £250 a month? Petty cash for an AMG owner.

But for the same price you could buy a ten year old Golf instead….

 

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Pretty much the same as my experience with repairs on 10-15 year old but lower mileage cars. But I don’t think that £3k a year is surprising for someone with a 20 year old AMG, especially when they do odd things like getting the garage to deal with a roof rack.

It’s still not too far away from someone spending £2k on depreciation and a grand on routine maintenance. £250 a month? Petty cash for an AMG owner.

But for the same price you could buy a ten year old Golf instead….

Yes, I guess I try to do as many jobs as I can to keep costs in check but many don't so of course increases the costs.

One big shift for me is doing much less miles than I used to so also keeps costs more in check.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Well I guess it isn't so popular now as maybe it once was.
Can't have any ways for the oil companies and govts not to be able to make a stack to fill up their back pockets though!

Most of the LPG outlets are supplied by the Motor Fuels Group. Sites including BP, Esso, Shell, Texaco etc.
They've decided there's way more money to be made from running EV chargers inside and outside service stations, so they're switching to doing that.

They say it's not about a drop in demand, more increased cost of delivery and a premium for LPG trained drivers. as well as the money to be made from urgency to install and maintain EV chargers.

 

[Will]

There’s no real downside to the LPG option though. If you can fill up on gas then it’s a bonus, but you just drive exactly as normal on petrol otherwise.

The point about EV chargers is fair. There’s whole filling stations being knocked down and turned into charging stations now (so even petrol/diesel will be one day harder to find!)

I pass this one fairly often:

Electric vehicle charging | About Shell UK

Shell is investing in electric vehicle infrastructure to meet the charging needs of drivers - at home, at work or on the go.

www.shell.co.uk

LPG is basically propane gas, there’s no shortage of it, and there will no doubt always be somewhere to fill up. I think people have been saying stuff about LPG for decades but it’s still out there and approx half the price of petrol