ML for Sale

[Sanny]

Anyone looking for a 2006 (06MY) ML320CDI Sport. Company car means that my beloved car is now rarely used.

PM me for details.

 

[hawk20]

Price, extras, colour outside and in, and what does MY stand for?

 

[A210AMG]

o6 Model year I guess...


I agree, pictures and details would be good if selling?

 

[truthfindergeneral]

I wish you luck sanny.
Paid £16,000 for a 54 plate ML 270 cdi with 44 thous on clock back in March. Just about every extra on it. Been told that the book price is now down to about £7,500 for trade in purposes !! ( now with 49,000 )

 

[Seeker_UK]

I wish you luck sanny.
Paid £16,000 for a 54 plate ML 270 cdi with 44 thous on clock back in March. Just about every extra on it. Been told that the book price is now down to about £7,500 for trade in purposes !! ( now with 49,000 )

Parkers reckons for 40K pre-facelift ML270CDI (MY 2004) trade in is ~13K so I think someone has been telling you porkies.

That is a "I really don't want your car in p/ex" price.

 

[A210AMG]

I agree at £7500 for a 2004 ML270 I will give you that now..


It all depends on the price to change though what was that price against?

 

[hawk20]

Glass's Guide show a 2004 ML270cdi on a 54 plate with 49k miles on the clock at a part ex price of £11,100 in average condition and £12,700 in excellent condition.

Where has Sanny gone?

 

[hawk20]

Sanny's 2006 ML320cdi Sport if it is on a 55 plate and has about 24k miles on the clock, will have a part ex price of £23k in average condition and £26,250 in excellent condition. How times have changed. ML's had fantastic residuals only about 5 minutes ago.

 

[psmart]

Glass's Guide show a 2004 ML270cdi on a 54 plate with 49k miles on the clock at a part ex price of £11,100 in average condition and £12,700 in excellent condition.

Where has Sanny gone?

At the Merc showcase showroom in Killesberg (Stuttgart), an ML270cdi, a tad over 4, ~40kmiles on the clock, leather, auto, no sunroof, darkened windos, otherwise quite normal was EUR27000 (~GBP21,000)! How different the German market is!!!

 

[truthfindergeneral]

I was looking at a demo petrol Nissan pick up in the £16,000 bracket.

'That is a "I really don't want your car in p/ex" price." thats what I thought but with the new VED rates fast approaching ( top bracket for the ML auto diesel ) it's surely going to be impossible to part ex such a vehicle.

 

[Seeker_UK]

I was looking at a demo petrol Nissan pick up in the £16,000 bracket.

'That is a "I really don't want your car in p/ex" price." thats what I thought but with the new VED rates fast approaching ( top bracket for the ML auto diesel ) it's surely going to be impossible to part ex such a vehicle.

Well, of all the MLs it's still going to be the cheapest to run and with fuel being the single biggest monthly running cost is now definitely the most attractive of the range.

I guess that until 2009 when the new rates come in and we see how much it does affect the market over and above fuel consumption, dealers are going to shy away from all Band L and M cars.

 

[grayb]

I'm not sure the increase in VED is going to put that many people off. There are plenty of people who still want to have a car that stands out - and £4 a week extra isn't going to put them off that much, if they are paying tens of thousands in the first place. Less than 2 pints of lager after all...

 

[truthfindergeneral]

Fully serviced, slick 50 added, tyres correctly inflated, driving style of a nun with 9 points and I am lucky to see more than 28 mpg. Diesel was 89p ltr when I bought it.
There are many wannabe Merc owners like me who scrimped and saved and now go with out in order to run to one. £4 a week will be a lot of money.

 

[hawk20]

At the Merc showcase showroom in Killesberg (Stuttgart), an ML270cdi, a tad over 4, ~40kmiles on the clock, leather, auto, no sunroof, darkened windos, otherwise quite normal was EUR27000 (~GBP21,000)! How different the German market is!!!

Not really. Go to the MB website and prices being asked by dealers are similar. Examples from 2005 are asking from 25 to 29k. Just not getting the asking price and sliding fast due to the sudden rise in oil prices and recession fears.

 

[JEZ.S320L]

Not really. Go to the MB website and prices being asked by dealers are similar. Examples from 2005 are asking from 25 to 29k. Just not getting the asking price and sliding fast due to the sudden rise in oil prices and recession fears.

I daresay that MB could ask whatever price they want - 50k, 75k or The Moon. BUT - they are only worth what people are prepared to pay, be that 7k, 5k or peanuts.

 

[hawk20]

I daresay that MB could ask whatever price they want - 50k, 75k or The Moon. BUT - they are only worth what people are prepared to pay, be that 7k, 5k or peanuts.

Surely that applies equally to the asking prices in the German showroom to which Psmart was referring.

 

[JEZ.S320L]

Surely that applies equally to the asking prices in the German showroom to which Psmart was referring.

Absolutely right.! But the asking price in Germany is not factoring in a VED based on CO2 emissions and high UK fuel prices. Which probably goes some way to explain the differential.

 

[truthfindergeneral]

The fact that my choice of vehicle is now going to be decided by trade in, and that is a very worrying position to be in when your trade in is in the top rated VED bracket ,coupled with the fact that it is also diesel , means I am about to lose the most I have ever lost on a vehicle in my 30 plus years of driving.

 

[hawk20]

Absolutely right.! But the asking price in Germany is not factoring in a VED based on CO2 emissions and high UK fuel prices. Which probably goes some way to explain the differential.

I think you miss my point. If you look at the asking prices here they are as high as the asking prices in Germany.
I don't see a differential -not yet anyway.

 

[JEZ.S320L]

I think you miss my point. If you look at the asking prices here they are as high as the asking prices in Germany.
I don't see a differential -not yet anyway.

The point I am trying to make, is that there is a whole world of difference between asking prices, and what people are prepared to pay (e.g. house prices). Maybe in Germany, MB buyers are more prepared to pay nearer the asking price there, than they are in the UK.