£5k W211 E class - help with reliable engine pls
Discussion
Morning all,
I'm doing 30k business miles per year and I think I fancy a W211 E class. I see no point in spending more than £5k, but could put more in if there's a good reason.
Auto I like and diesel makes sense. Spec and looks I am not really fussed with, preference is small wheeled hush and comfort.
This car will spend pretty much all of it's working life with me at 70mph in a straight line.
Performance, handling, feel will be taken care of via other cars - I want isolation, comfort, reliability, decent running costs.
Between the choices available, servicing, insurance and MPG to a degree are not going to make or break it. IME of motorway driving, the little 4-pots never deliver the numbers, the bigger engines get close = so the real world gap is pretty marginal.
Older car with low miles / newer with high miles I'm open to and have run more than one car with 150k+ on the clocks.
What I really don't want is to inadvertently blunder in and buy an engine / gearbox combo with well know issues, which I find lots of info about sitting on the hard shoulder waiting for the recovery truck.
I see the options as 220, 270, 280, 320 and hopefully PH will also be able to advise on facelifts / gearbox changes to go for / avoid during the W211 also.
I'm doing 30k business miles per year and I think I fancy a W211 E class. I see no point in spending more than £5k, but could put more in if there's a good reason.
Auto I like and diesel makes sense. Spec and looks I am not really fussed with, preference is small wheeled hush and comfort.
This car will spend pretty much all of it's working life with me at 70mph in a straight line.
Performance, handling, feel will be taken care of via other cars - I want isolation, comfort, reliability, decent running costs.
Between the choices available, servicing, insurance and MPG to a degree are not going to make or break it. IME of motorway driving, the little 4-pots never deliver the numbers, the bigger engines get close = so the real world gap is pretty marginal.
Older car with low miles / newer with high miles I'm open to and have run more than one car with 150k+ on the clocks.
What I really don't want is to inadvertently blunder in and buy an engine / gearbox combo with well know issues, which I find lots of info about sitting on the hard shoulder waiting for the recovery truck.
I see the options as 220, 270, 280, 320 and hopefully PH will also be able to advise on facelifts / gearbox changes to go for / avoid during the W211 also.
Thanks chaps, just the sort of pointers I was looking for.
Pentoman said:
I'm a Merc fan (previous owner of 190E and 190E 2.5-16) but I'm not sure I would do 30k/year in a 5k diesel W211. I hang out with a lot of mechanics and... yeah.
Pento, good to have another opinion. I just figured that approx 1,000,000 premium taxi companies couldn't be wrong! The E220 that took me to Heathrow last week had 280k miles on the clock and the owner/driver seemed happy with it. Gassing Station | Mercedes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff