Adamki83
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- Your Mercedes
- Mercedes E-class, 2005, E270CDI (2.7) + 1992 Mercedes 500SL (R129)
Hi,
I’ve done one of these already for I think it was an 8 month update, well now I’ve owned the car for a whole year now so here is what I’ve thought and encountered during my time of owning this car.
Firstly it’s a 2005 Mercedes E270 CDi currently sitting at 96k miles, bought a year ago on 78k miles with a very healthy Mercedes main dealer service history, and also only 1 owner before me.
My family has always had mercs since I was a child so I have grown up with them all my life. Initially I was only looking for a small economic car like a Golf etc...
So flicking through autotrader and I clicked on Mercedes Benz and I saw all these E-classes all within my budget! So I looked at a few couldn’t afford to insure a 320, so went to look at a few E270’s and ended up with this one.
Reliability has been great I mean I’ve had upper ball joints done (did it myself) and had to have lower ball joints done too (didn’t do myself) and I’m pretty sure that is all!
Just went for its MOT and it passed with zero advisory’s so very happy there, renewed the insurance a month ago or so that only cost me £840 (bearing in mind I am 23 years old)
Fuel has been very good too, I mean when I don’t really care I do about 34-35mpg then when I do care I do about 42mpg and on a run I can easily hit over 50mpg!
I thought this car would of costed me a fortune to run but that is simply not the case, I admit filling it up is a bit of a ball ache £94, but that’ll last almost 2 weeks and tax is slightly higher but it’s no more expensive to run than a Passat! Servicing costs me roughly £180 (major every year) at a German specialist.
So I’ve almost done 20k miles in a year more than this car has ever done in a year and it’s never let me down.
It’s completly changed my mind of replacing it next year.
I’ve done one of these already for I think it was an 8 month update, well now I’ve owned the car for a whole year now so here is what I’ve thought and encountered during my time of owning this car.
Firstly it’s a 2005 Mercedes E270 CDi currently sitting at 96k miles, bought a year ago on 78k miles with a very healthy Mercedes main dealer service history, and also only 1 owner before me.
My family has always had mercs since I was a child so I have grown up with them all my life. Initially I was only looking for a small economic car like a Golf etc...
So flicking through autotrader and I clicked on Mercedes Benz and I saw all these E-classes all within my budget! So I looked at a few couldn’t afford to insure a 320, so went to look at a few E270’s and ended up with this one.
Reliability has been great I mean I’ve had upper ball joints done (did it myself) and had to have lower ball joints done too (didn’t do myself) and I’m pretty sure that is all!
Just went for its MOT and it passed with zero advisory’s so very happy there, renewed the insurance a month ago or so that only cost me £840 (bearing in mind I am 23 years old)
Fuel has been very good too, I mean when I don’t really care I do about 34-35mpg then when I do care I do about 42mpg and on a run I can easily hit over 50mpg!
I thought this car would of costed me a fortune to run but that is simply not the case, I admit filling it up is a bit of a ball ache £94, but that’ll last almost 2 weeks and tax is slightly higher but it’s no more expensive to run than a Passat! Servicing costs me roughly £180 (major every year) at a German specialist.
So I’ve almost done 20k miles in a year more than this car has ever done in a year and it’s never let me down.
It’s completly changed my mind of replacing it next year.
.
