2004 E320 W211

[Richieboy3008]

After 222,000 miles my XC90, former family car, turned station car is finally giving up and will be sent off to the scrap man soon.

I have a crappy old C-max for family duties, so I set about looking for a suitable replacement station shed. Although I only did about 4k miles in the Volvo last year, I was getting bored of the 20 mpg, so fancied something cheap to run, tax and insure. With a budget of 1k, I set about scouring auto trader, ebay and that cesspit FB market place.

There was nothing, anything decent was snapped up in a nano second, leaving absolute rotters left. So in a moment of madness I doubled my budget, and this popped up 2 miles from home.

It's a 2004 E 320, 150k miles, full service history (merc main dealer up to 2018), very clean, no rust that I can find, 12 months MOT. £1800.

Dealer pics

[Mr Tidy]

That looks like a good buy.

Has to be one for the Barge thread!

[MrC986]

I think the bigger Mercs wear well for their age although they went through a period of cost cutting when they were rot boxes - the OPs car with cloth/leather looks a potentially well cared for example & should surely do many years good service. Given their size, they do like to break suspension springs.

[anonymous-user]

Like that half cloth interior. How’s it for options? Good luck with it, from one 2004 W211 driver to another.

[24valve]

Nice. Must be one of the first with the v6 engine. My late 2003 was the inline 6.

[idiotgap]

I had a 2004 petrol 320 estate, I sold it to get an xc90 of all things!
Great car, cost me a bit in repairs though and I got shot of it to wbac rather than change the Sensotronic brake pump. I expected the 2013 xc90 to be cheaper to run - big mistake, no end of injectors, turbo pipework etc. to bring on the bills, might go back to a w212 shape merc next.

[Richieboy3008]

It does seem to have been well looked after. I was having a flick through service history, saw a few chunky bills in there! Including having the SCB replaced a few years ago, so hopefully I'll be ok. If I can get 2 years out of it, I'll be happy.