Hello, John - got a new motor

[Noddy 99]

Hello to everyone!

Can't believe I've bought a Mercedes - I'm getting a nosebleed even THINKING about joining this exalted company...

Anyway, Webuyanycar.com gave me a wildly improbable £11660 for my 2018 Vauxhall Insignia so I took a decision which I'd long contemplated but always lacked the nerve to execute: to buy an old E-Class.

Sooooo for £5995, I've picked up a 2009 W211 and thus have over £5.5K to cover bills over the next 3-4 years. It's a mint condition E280 CDI Sport Estate with 93K on the clock and a 12 month nationwide warranty. It's got a few issues to be sorted before I pick it up next weekend but it should be like a new car when I do.

Looking forward to engaging in the forum properly when I've got the car. Ta-ta for now...

 

[Blobcat]

Hello and welcome

 

[SmartAmg]

Welcome, Noddy.

 

[Paul Garrett]

Welcome Noddy to our forum
Oh and as you titled it "Hello John you got a new motor" id refrain from keeping tropical fish in your underpants!! Haha!! Bit squidgy id say! Hehe!!

 

[AMGeed]

Welcome to the forum Noddy.
Photos of your E class when you pick it up are always welcome.

 

[davidsl500]

Welcome Noddy, how's Big Ears these days...?

 

[SmartAmg]

Welcome Noddy, how's Big Ears these days...?

Managed to get to the Sixth post, not bad.

 

[Paul Garrett]

Managed to get to the Sixth post, not bad.

Well it had to happen eh? Just too obvious

 

[00slk]

Hello and welcome.........see, a sensible welcome
Nice motor John......oh sh#*e

 

[dry run]

Welcome Loved my W211 320CDi.

 

[Mr Hatt]

Hello to everyone!

Can't believe I've bought a Mercedes - I'm getting a nosebleed even THINKING about joining this exalted company...

Anyway, Webuyanycar.com gave me a wildly improbable £11660 for my 2018 Vauxhall Insignia so I took a decision which I'd long contemplated but always lacked the nerve to execute: to buy an old E-Class.

Sooooo for £5995, I've picked up a 2009 W211 and thus have over £5.5K to cover bills over the next 3-4 years. It's a mint condition E280 CDI Sport Estate with 93K on the clock and a 12 month nationwide warranty. It's got a few issues to be sorted before I pick it up next weekend but it should be like a new car when I do.

Looking forward to engaging in the forum properly when I've got the car. Ta-ta for now...

Good morning and welcome Noddy bet you cant wait for delivery day fela, you made an excellent choice, they stopped production of the w211`s in 2009 and 2008/9 were the best of what is already a flippin good vehicle, one of the best series that merc ever made, 200bhp give or take, OM642 easily and safely mapped to 230ish, 7Gtronic super smooth bulletproof box and brakes that defy physics, ridiculously over engineered and using genuine parts/fluids and a squirt of two stroke in each fillup you have a half million mile mota, you have all the names, Harmen Kardon, Brembo, Borbet, Bosch, the list is endless, I buy and sell German and jump from one thing to another but always keep a 320 2009 back as my fall back,(never dissapointed to get in it) you will love it,, you may need to change your name though after dumping the insignia Noddy car Oh and get rid of that ****** hat, the bell is triggering me. regards Steve

 

[Mr Hatt]

Welcome Noddy to our forum
Oh and as you titled it "Hello John you got a new motor" id refrain from keeping tropical fish in your underpants!! Haha!! Bit squidgy id say! Hehe!!

Only intelligent guys of a certain age will get this ref, Women never liked Alexei and snow flakes who think Nish Kumar is funny have not had a life worth living, what a time to be alive

 

[Mr Hatt]

Welcome Noddy, how's Big Ears these days...?

REALLY David ? Really ? he is new to the forum and you insult his Mrs on forst contact

 

[Paul Garrett]

Only intelligent guys of a certain age will get this ref, Women never liked Alexei and snow flakes who think Nish Kumar is funny have not had a life worth living, what a time to be alive

That is true, only certain people will get the joke, esp younger peeps, there was some great comedy back then not like some of the pretentious tosh nowadays?

 

[A.J.]

Hi and welcome to the forum

 

[Noddy 99]

Welcome Noddy, how's Big Ears these days...?

Ha ha - loving the banter. I was a member of a Peugeot 2008 forum once and I've been to funerals that were livelier. Looking forward to engaging more when I get the car.

 

[Noddy 99]

Good morning and welcome Noddy bet you cant wait for delivery day fela, you made an excellent choice, they stopped production of the w211`s in 2009 and 2008/9 were the best of what is already a flippin good vehicle, one of the best series that merc ever made, 200bhp give or take, OM642 easily and safely mapped to 230ish, 7Gtronic super smooth bulletproof box and brakes that defy physics, ridiculously over engineered and using genuine parts/fluids and a squirt of two stroke in each fillup you have a half million mile mota, you have all the names, Harmen Kardon, Brembo, Borbet, Bosch, the list is endless, I buy and sell German and jump from one thing to another but always keep a 320 2009 back as my fall back,(never dissapointed to get in it) you will love it,, you may need to change your name though after dumping the insignia Noddy car Oh and get rid of that ****** hat, the bell is triggering me. regards Steve

Many thanks for this - great to hear. Yeah, I could have gone for a much more recent model but I deliberately went for the W211 because I think it's one of the most stylish cars ever designed - the interior is a work of art. I looked at the A6, the 5-series and the XF but none of them had the absolute majesty of the Merc.

The hat's kind of my trademark now so it'll have to stay... ;-)

 

[Ron240]

Sorry I couldn't resist it.

 

[SmartAmg]

Ha ha - loving the banter. I was a member of a Peugeot 2008 forum once and I've been to funerals that were livelier. Looking forward to engaging more when I get the car.

In that case, this your new motor?

 

[Ron240]

Webuyanycar.com gave me a wildly improbable £11660 for my 2018 Vauxhall Insignia

Yeah used values are absurdly high at the moment so it is definitely the right time to sell if thinking about it.
I am curious if there was a difference between what WBAC originally offered then then what they actually gave you excluding their standard fees?
I always like to check WBAC offers now and again, and they are currently offering me only £1400 less than what I paid for my car brand new 14 months ago...which is absolutely amazing!