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Absolutely mental, go and buy it now :D:p:)
 
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It is soooooo very tempting you have no idea....
Oh I do...;) cars and bikes used to follow me home :D

As long as it's not your daily and you don't need to rely on it everyday it would be a great fun car
 
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Oh I do...;) cars and bikes used to follow me home :D

As long as it's not your daily and you don't need to rely on it everyday it would be a great fun car
Thats the issue it was going to be my daily for 8k miles a year!
 
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If you want it better be quick - people on other forums have an eye on it! Keep a slush fund in case the coil packs need changing again- 60k miles seems about average "life" and might cost over £1k each depending on source.
 

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I cant imagine how quick that thing is in a straight line, hopefully it'll match my dads S8! :D
1/2 second slower 0-60 but that V12 is lovely.....
Do you really think folks will say "Don't do it"? :)
 
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Is there anyone here that has owned one of these V12's or one of these CL's? I just curious about the reliability at 175k miles!
 
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1/2 second slower 0-60 but that V12 is lovely.....
Do you really think folks will say "Don't do it"? :)
I need to at least 1 person too say it just quoted it with my insurance and its actually the same price just a higher excess!
 

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I think that's been online for a while, it was one I spotted when we were talking about CL's a short while back.
 

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I did check these but the brakes were soooo expensive gsf was about £300ish per disc! These were £280 for a full set! I assume this was because its an AMG car?
 

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Is there anyone here that has owned one of these V12's or one of these CL's? I just curious about the reliability at 175k miles!
Well we do but sadly the mileage is less than 7% of that one so can't comment on reliability at that mileage! You'll struggle to find anyone who has run a V12 up to that mileage, but there was someone on Pistonheads who had a spreadsheet detailing the costs of his over a long period and high mileage. Don't remember his id unfortunately but the costs were eye watering.
Disc costs for a CL63 pah -pocket money. Just paid £1600 for front discs and pads on mine, without fitting.
 
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I think this may end up catching me out in one way or another like @LostKiwi said there are 24 spark plugs, it was £100 for 6 plugs for a friends 335i and that's before you get into coil packs and the potential for one of those shocks to fail. It still looks like such an awesome car though I spoke to the guy and he actually paid £142k for it brand new!
Its so appealing, I dunno I left the guy my number as he has someone looking at it tonight so he will let me know tomorrow morning if its sold or not as of yet I am 50/50 about the car!
 

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