W210 e55 amg

[Goatboy]

After many years of car buying and ownership I am finally getting round buying one of these beasts. If all goes well I will collect tonight!

Sounds like a decent car that has been serviced at the same specialist for about the last 7 years and has had two owners in that time.

Bit of rust on one of the wings though I have just resigned myself to replacing both as a precaution. Last MOT had an advisory that discs were corroded (possibly throgh lack of use)

Aside from this seems well maintained and is in lovely condition inside and out. Its a 98 car with 95 k on the clock.

Looking to pay as close to 3k as possible for it. Am I mental? Ohe well too late now. Will post findings and results

 

[E CLASS]

As long as you are buying more metal than rust then your not mental...

 

[Goatboy]

Hope so.

 

[renault12ts]

Check the tops of all doors, by peeling back the rubber. Check behind the rear bumper at each side.

 

[billywhiz]

3k for a decent 55 is good money - nice examples can still sell for 5+

 

[Goatboy]

Ok it is done...I ended up paying 2,900 for it.

Rust wise front wings will probably need replacing and the rear wheel arches will both need repairs.

Aside from that I think it is due a service and I think the discs will need replacing. To be honest by the time I am finished I would imagine it will have cost me at least 1.5k but I will know what that money was spent on and that my local indy who is excellent did the work.

On the plus side it is in lovely condition inside the wheels are all really nice and the engine and transmission all seem very solid.

Drives really well and for the moment i am chuffed.

I will post some pics at the weekend. If anybody has any suggestions about the rust repair or my costings etc I am very open to advice.

All the Best, Bruce

 

[GP801]

Front wings are easy to replace. Rears can be repaired. Be sure to check the inner wings, under rear bumper, subframe mounts and all the underside. There is often more rust than you can see on the 210. If its good then get it protected with waxoyl, dinitrol or similar because it will rot at some point

 

[Horrgakx]

Sounds good! Do you have a link to it online?

I'm trying to sell mine at the moment, it's advertised on here for £3,999. LINK.

 

[E CLASS]

Ok it is done...I ended up paying 2,900 for it.

Rust wise front wings will probably need replacing and the rear wheel arches will both need repairs.

Aside from that I think it is due a service and I think the discs will need replacing. To be honest by the time I am finished I would imagine it will have cost me at least 1.5k but I will know what that money was spent on and that my local indy who is excellent did the work.

On the plus side it is in lovely condition inside the wheels are all really nice and the engine and transmission all seem very solid.

Drives really well and for the moment i am chuffed.

I will post some pics at the weekend. If anybody has any suggestions about the rust repair or my costings etc I am very open to advice.

All the Best, Bruce

Nice one!

Give us a rundown on the car - colours, no of owners, history etc.

 

[E CLASS]

Sounds good! Do you have a link to it online?

I'm trying to sell mine at the moment, it's advertised on here for £3,999. LINK.

Time for another price drop?!

Still looks like a nice car though.

 

[Horrgakx]

Thanks - Is it worth £3k?

 

[Goatboy]

It is a 5 owner car Mercedes serviced for the first four years...Which in fairness was I think only 3 services. Then the car has been serviced every other two years seems to have been doing about 15-17k between services...Mileage based servicing is weird but there you go.

Silver with black leather. The interior really is immaculate it has an autochanger in the boot and a Blaupunkt New Yorker? head unit which looks to be some kind of ancient Sat Nav with near indecipherable controls!

I very nearly walked away from it looking at the rust but at the price I thought it was worth the gamble given how sound the rest of the car was. If it all goes south I will take the engine and tranny and try and drop it into something inappropriate.

 

[Horrgakx]

Well, you'll enjoy it. Neck-snapping acceleration and very comfortable. Reliable mechanics too You only don't want to change the spark plugs, there's 16 of them

Negatives for me about it are;
Jerky performance at low speed, but that's probably the nature of the wolf in sheepskin clothing performance and the gearbox must be very strong to handle the massive torque. I dot mind it when on my own but with passengers I normally use winter mode to smooth it out at low speed.
The fuel consumption can be heavy if you are heavy with it - but what do you expect from something that weighs same as a small house and will beat a Mitsi EVO in a straight line...

But the handling is superb. And the only mod I did was to remove a heavy and unnecessary mild steel middle silencer; it sounds better now too.

 

[Goatboy]

What am I looking at for a spark plug service cost wise?

 

[E CLASS]

Thanks - Is it worth £3k?

Oh god don't say that - you are just going to give me a night thinking about it!!

 

[AMGeed]

What am I looking at for a spark plug service cost wise?

The plugs are around £10 each. I guess an indy can do the job in around 1.5 hrs. I'd budget around £220 -£240. Just as well they are changed at 50k mile intervals.

 

[EDZ649]

The plugs are around £10 each. I guess an indy can do the job in around 1.5 hrs. I'd budget around £220 -£240. Just as well they are changed at 50k mile intervals.

I doubt it can be done in 1.5 hours. MB give 4 hours to do this job, don't forget there are 16 plugs in all. Olly has done it in less than 4 hours though.

 

[jefrs]

4 hours for plugs! - that's 15-minutes per plug?

It's a fiddly job put they are not inaccessible.
What's involved? - clean up around plugs, remove and fit new ones to correct torque (do not over-tighten - I had an over-tightened one fired out of a TR7).
I'm guessing 2.5 hours minimum.

I believe the E55 AMG wings should have rolled edges to the wheel arches for the wide staggered 8J/9J alloys.

 

[E CLASS]

Goatboy get this thread going again!!

I'm really interested to find out how things are going.

Please post up some pics too.

 

[Goatboy]

I haven't forgotten about the thread worry not. My Indy have had a look and proclaimed pretty much what I expected ie its a solid car that needs a bit of work. Booked in for a service next wednesday when it will be going next door to the bodywork specialist. To be honest its so nice to live with I am considering getting it serviced maybe rust proofing the underside and leaving it apart from that. We shall see it depends on cost to fully sort the rust as I am not throwing money at the car for no reason.

More to come