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- Your Mercedes
- 2002 SL500, 216 CL500, all fully loaded
Did the OP get this sorted by MB ?
No further news yet been reported
Did the OP get this sorted by MB ?
Sad when we don't get the end of the story.
According to the AA 60% of company cars are involved in an accident per year. Incredible. And company cars are at least half of new cars (even bigger percentage of luxury brands). And privately owned cars have accidents too. So many secondhand cars will inevitably have accident damage.
There is no law to require people to declare all accidents to cars or to put in the logbook repairs done and who they were done by.
So buying secondhand sadly always carries the risk for most of us that a car may have been damaged and repaired. (Most cannot see the repair as they do it so well at most places. Television can, but most cannot). Trouble is that if the repair was done at a non approved bodyshop it destroys the 30 year Mobilo rust warranty, and goodwill treatment too in most cases.
I been offered a repair by MB dealer where can i go from here?,do i just accept?
What kind of damage is there evidence of on your car
The people who work in these outlets do not know much about these things and would not know what to look for,, the market has been too easy for them for a long time.I'm quite shocked and surprised about how an ex MB-UK nearly new car could have such major damage and slip through the network like that as an approved used car.
I suspect the staff member who had the use of the vehicle at some stage would have crashed it, and then got it repaired cheaply at some backstreet bodyshop, meaning MB-UK and the dealer in question would never have known about the accident.
The approved used checks mean nothing these days, they would just assume a car like that is OK and stick it up for sale.
Mb dealer have redeemed them self got a good offer
Shame the OP hasnt given us an update on whats going on with this car. Would be interested to hear the name of the dealer.