£5K, fast, four door E500, C32AMG, what else?

£5K, fast, four door E500, C32AMG, what else?

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raymanh

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84 posts

160 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Yo, I'm looking for a car....

Four door
300bhp +
RWD
MPG not silly ridiculously stupid (below 20 combined)
£5k
Newer than 02

Been looking at W211 E500s, C32 AMGs and S-type Rs. There must be a few more......


deeen

6,079 posts

244 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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XJR

V88Dicky

7,302 posts

182 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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An S-type 4.2 is bang on 300hp and a really good one should be available for £5k. Something like a post facelift 2004/5

The Badger

355 posts

175 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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B6 S4.

BlitzE34

284 posts

149 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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CLK500

mmm-five

11,227 posts

283 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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e39 M5
e46 M3

2013BRM

39,731 posts

283 months

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Get more pennies and buy a E55K.

MikeyMike

580 posts

200 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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mmm-five said:
e39 M5
e46 M3
If only, cheapest e39 M5 I've seen for a long time was 6.5k and sold the day it was advertised. Most are around double the op's budget.

raymanh

Original Poster:

84 posts

160 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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E39 M5s are a good way out of my budget and I only wish they made a four door E46 M3.

CLK 500 is nice, but I'm looking for four doors.

The bigger cars; A8s, S-classes, 7 Series' are all bit excessive for me.

Has anyone got any experience with a C32 or E500, I'm being drawn to those the most but I've heard a few stories of reliability issues with the inter cooler pump (C32) and shoddy quality from that era of Mercedes cars (both).

Synchromesh

2,428 posts

165 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Hi Ray

Happy to take you out in dad's E500 at some point. His is a post-face (07-) so the later 5.5 with c.400bhp. With your budget you might have to settle for a pre-face (5.0, c.300bhp) but it should still be adequate.

Otherwise E39 540i could work, and I was pleasantly surprised by the S-type 4.0 I owned previously. Left field choices include, but aren't limited to: Cadillac CTS, Honda Legend, assorted Lexii or MG ZT V8.

kiethton

13,883 posts

179 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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E39 540i?

raymanh

Original Poster:

84 posts

160 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Didn't even think about E60s, thanks.

raymanh

Original Poster:

84 posts

160 months

Monday 27th April 2015
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Synchromesh said:
Hi Ray

Happy to take you out in dad's E500 at some point. His is a post-face (07-) so the later 5.5 with c.400bhp. With your budget you might have to settle for a pre-face (5.0, c.300bhp) but it should still be adequate.

Otherwise E39 540i could work, and I was pleasantly surprised by the S-type 4.0 I owned previously. Left field choices include, but aren't limited to: Cadillac CTS, Honda Legend, assorted Lexii or MG ZT V8.
Good to see you sailing the PH waters once again.

But, shouldn't you be revising?

A wise but small man, with a head like Paul the alien, once said: First revise AND THEN you may play on the computer!!!

Edited by raymanh on Monday 27th April 22:12

minerva

756 posts

203 months

Tuesday 28th April 2015
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I had a 2004 E55 estate that I sold last summer for £6000. It had done 145 000 miles and the engine, although using a bit of oil, was very reliable. The front suspension had failed, needing replacing, the airbag sensor in the front seat had failed, the brakes discs and pads needing replacing, all of which totalled a bill of £5000. I nearly broke it instead! I couldn't, though, and replaced all, hoping it was going to go to someone who was going to appreciate it. As is life, the man who came around to pick it up arrived much later than he said he would and (since I had gone out) started arguing with my old and frail father in law, trying to knock the price down for faults he had already been made aware of on the advert.

It was like any mercedes of that era, (they apparently began to improve from 2005 onwards). Not too bad, just slightly disappointing. I would stick with AMG, since, although much more expensive, they have the 'specialness' that the cooking ones do not. The E500 is by not really a performance car, it is just a big heavy car with a thirty engine. A diesel engined one will probably be nearly as fast in gear, work well with the obligatory automatic gearbox and be more efficient.