How bad?'01 C-class

[benzburner]

as the title asks, how bad is a 2001 c180 (or similar) likely to be. my mother will be looking for a new car shortly and i'm trying to get her to break the cycle of fiats. C180 would be perfect for her but what kind of issues am i looking at in general, and what kind of money can she expect to have to part with

 

[GSM1]

Not all bad despite what you may be told on here, of course some people have had bad one's, but I put that down to there expectations of mercs and how they should not go wrong but all cars have faults and mercs have a lot of kit. I saw yesterday a very nice C220D estate on 2001 130k for £6995, now that car did not do that mileage in a merc dealer on ramps. 1 owner and full dealer history, a bargain I'd say
Gary

 

[jon_harley]

There were some stories around that time of new C-classes having a tendency to have electrical problems, but I'd have thought anything like that would have been fixed long ago in a 5 year old car.