Buying and selling

[stuartmac]

Hi,

I've a '88 250TD and I was considering selling it and buying a late 1990's E300TD or E320 diesel (estates).

Question is, where do I look, both to get an idea of what mine might be worth and see what's available? Autotrader's obvious but my local edition (Kent & SE London) hardly ever has any of the above models - the odd E300 or E320 but I can't remember the last time I saw a 250TD. So, is it that any of these models rarely come up for sale, or is there somewhere else everyone except me knows about? ;-)

Any advice much appreciated.

Regards,

 

[guycox@gmail.com]

buying

Hi Stuart

I am by no means an expert but have just bought a 99 250td from Ebay, seller had loads of good reviews from loads of pervious car sales. stated 12 full merc serv history with 165.000 miles.

I havn't picked it up yet but I looked and looked for about a month or so. Autotrader turned up hopefulls but when I looked at them in the flesh they were tatty or they were suspect. I really don't like people who steam clean engines as get hyper suspect of them.

I also rang a merc service shop in tooting who were very helfpull and said if you can get the car to them they will give it the once over for £45.

I am sure others on the forum will have much better advice but thought I would punt that your way.

Guy

 

[stuartmac]

Hi Guy,

Thanks for the advice. Would it be impolite to ask how much you paid for your 250TD?

Btw, reading "Final Cost Breakdown for Blocat's W210 E320CDI", I was somewhat surprised at the trade-in figure given (£5000). As I said, I'm looking at late 1990's E300TD or E320CDI estates, up to 150k miles, and my budget's around 50% higher; the only car I've seen for sale at £5k was a '97 E300TD with chips and badly touched-up scratches on virtually every panel.

Thus, if anyone reading this has anything like a 52(?) E320CDI with 110k for which they're only being offered £5k, feel free to pm or e-mail me. ;-)

Regards,

 

[Bolide]

I've a '88 250TD and I was considering selling it and buying a late 1990's E300TD or E320 diesel (estates)

The latest W124 model (like yours) you can buy would be a 1996 E300 Diesel with a 606 engine. Different engine to your car

The early W210 estates (round headlights) used the same 606 engine in turbocharged & non-turbocharged form. The 320 CDi (with a new common-rail turbocharged engine) came in around 1999

The value of your car depends almost entirely on condition. If it's decent I'd expect it to be worth £1000 - £2000

Early W210s are cheaper than late W124s which is quite revealing

Nick Froome
www.w124.co.uk