The Joy of Running an Old Shed

[Plate spinner]

I might know of a decent shed coming onto the market soon, I don’t think the owner has the heart to deal with the sort of Ebay / Gumtree / squirt oil in the exhaust pipe trick crowd this car would attract... would be great to deal with a fellow PH shedder!

What’s it worth then eh?

Mercedes C220cdi estate auto small wheels, sort of metallic beige colour - you’re not going to peek out of the bedroom curtains each night for a final glimpse at its shapely form... but it’s wonderfully invisible in car parks!
Late 2007 W203 model on a 57 plate.
Classic SE spec
245k miles
Cloth interior clean, no rips or damage.
Exterior has battle scars. No rust or bubbling wings, but some panel & bumper scrapes / dents. Basically nothing you would ever pay to fix.
Drives nice, engine solid and auto box still smooth with no jerking, lurching or hesitating.
Everything works excepts the air con and the parking sensors which often have a mind of their own so get turned off with the button. Ooh and the electric mirrors - both work fine, but only one folds flat, the other just makes a clicking noise.

New job coming up, car cash allowance has stipulations about max age so will need to part with it next couple of months. Already eyeing up merc E class estates as kids are 6’ 0” teenagers now and would appreciate some extra legroom on longer journeys.

Edited by Plate spinner on Wednesday 5th February 10:01

[Jimmy Recard]

No idea what it’s worth but that sounds like an excellent shed

[M4cruiser]

Veryoldbear said:

One of the great things about shedding is that it eliminates all those worries about trade-in value etc. By the time it becomes a ex-shed or even a non-shed, if you have time and space you can break it or just put it Ebay and somebody will take it away

;)

[CX53]

BricktopST205 said:

My Saab 9-5 Aero just hit 150k miles and passed its M.O.T no problem. 5 years of straight passes bar one year that needed a brake pipe doing.

Remapped to 275BHP and 420nm so still pretty nippy compared to 90% of rep mobiles out there.

It is getting a bit tatty on the outside but is kept in good nick under the skin.

Edited by BricktopST205 on Tuesday 4th February 13:57

This is encouraging.. Against my better judgement I spent more than shed money on a 9-5 Aero after swearing I'd never buy another...

It's been very well looked after though, I'm hoping it's a good in, as I'll be daily driving it when my stbox astra sells.

[RoverP6B]

That 330i would have been a £5k+ car at that mileage all day long the day before the world first heard of Greta Thunberg! Hang on to it, look after it, it'll only appreciate from there...

Here's my own (slightly pricey for shed criteria) £7k, 265,000-mile mucky winter barge...

Edited by RoverP6B on Thursday 6th February 06:38

[STIfree]

Am I seeing a 760 badge on the rear of that? V12?

I was just looking the other day at those, some for sub 3k. Surely the time they're legally allowed to be driven around is limited.

It was the cheapest way I could see into a V12.

How are you finding it so far? Any bankrupting sized bills on the horizon?

[V6todayEVmanana]

[quote=RoverP6B]

Here's my own (slightly pricey for shed criteria) £7k, 265,000-mile mucky winter barge...



The 7 Series is too expense for this thread and the barge thread, deserves a thread all of its own. Would be great to hear about.

When I had a longer commute it was the kind of car I wanted but never brave enough to buy and I wonder if I would get frustrated looking for parking spaces.

How does it compare to the 5 series in terms of noise and comfort? Easy ownership?

[RoverP6B]

Yep, it's the V12. This is a mega spec Individual model - sadly lacking the fridge!

It's quiet. Muted hollow metallic wail north of 4k. Redlines at 6200 IIRC but it hasn't been up that way in a while thanks to the continual rain here. Wish it revved a fair bit higher in the dry - I don't fancy remapping it at this mileage (especially as there is an intermittent misfire at idle, mainly when cold). No ruinous bills so far. Had a full service and a new set of Chinese wheels off eBay (£700, non-staggered, unlike the previous set), new Pirelli rubber (£160 a corner IIRC, not too horrendous), unfortunately it came back with the oil service indicator not cancelled off and the manual override on the gearbox had stopped working (it was perfect before!), which I'm going to have to investigate.

I haven't driven an E60 and the only F10 I've had was a base 520d F11 Touring that I hated with every fibre of my being. Compared to my E39s? This is a MUCH bigger, heavier car, even compared to my specced-to-the-max 540i Touring. It's an amazingly sharp steer considering the ride and bulk, rewarding to hustle up the A386, but there's no disguising its sheer width and mass.

I did start a thread here but haven't updated it in a while, pic links are dead so will need reuploading:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Bonefish Blues]

A V12 that only redlines at 6200 seems a bit, well, limp - to the ignorant like me, anyway?

[p4cks]

Wrong thread, let's move on.

[RoverP6B]

I didn't realise that there was a price cap for shed-dom, and at comfortably less than five figures and in excess of a quarter-million miles, it would seem to qualify as a shed. I'll post up about my £595 E39 535i when I get it back...

[aaron_2000]

RoverP6B said:

I didn't realise that there was a price cap for shed-dom, and at comfortably less than five figures and in excess of a quarter-million miles, it would seem to qualify as a shed. I'll post up about my £595 E39 535i when I get it back...

I usually cap it at £1k and £1500 for something special

[greenarrow]

aaron_2000 said:

RoverP6B said:

I didn't realise that there was a price cap for shed-dom, and at comfortably less than five figures and in excess of a quarter-million miles, it would seem to qualify as a shed. I'll post up about my £595 E39 535i when I get it back...

I usually cap it at £1k and £1500 for something special

Yep I agree - a £7K car is NOT a Shed. A bargain Barge, perhaps and there's already a thread running for those!!

The E39 535i on the other hand, definitely eligible!

[Jaguar steve]

Bonefish Blues said:

A V12 that only redlines at 6200 seems a bit, well, limp - to the ignorant like me, anyway?

Torque old Chap. With a bottomless pit of that under your right foot a gentleman never needs to exceed 3000RPM

[Khaki Suit]

RoverP6B said:

I didn't realise that there was a price cap for shed-dom, and at comfortably less than five figures and in excess of a quarter-million miles, it would seem to qualify as a shed. I'll post up about my £595 E39 535i when I get it back...

Post the e39 in the "cheap cars that get lots of attention thread". There's some folks in there that clearly love a 39 and their superior standing in the outside world.

[Khaki Suit]

One of the rules of shed club should be to not brag about being in shed club. I've obviously tempted fate by telling anyone who'd listen how liberating shedding is.

Driving the ole Zafira down a hill the other day, under engine breaking, it developed a miss. Something not happy in cylinder 4 so this weekend I have the unenviable task of getting under the bonnet. The code (P300 - low fuel pressure) can apparently be for a multitude of things, plug, coilpack, injector, wiring, ecu or even the swirlpot in the tank. Happy days...

A new coilpack is £75. OK that's not too bad in the grand scheme of things, but when the car only cost £200 the principle of it niggles me.

[JaredVannett]

Some good shedding content from car throttle.... half a million mile Audi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvaoIoULjrM

[jagnet]

JaredVannett said:

Some good shedding content from car throttle.... half a million mile Audi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvaoIoULjrM

Watched that earlier - in remarkably good condition for the miles. Just goes to show what a difference keeping on top of maintenance can make.

[200Plus Club]

Khaki Suit said:

One of the rules of shed club should be to not brag about being in shed club. I've obviously tempted fate by telling anyone who'd listen how liberating shedding is.

Driving the ole Zafira down a hill the other day, under engine breaking, it developed a miss. Something not happy in cylinder 4 so this weekend I have the unenviable task of getting under the bonnet. The code (P300 - low fuel pressure) can apparently be for a multitude of things, plug, coilpack, injector, wiring, ecu or even the swirlpot in the tank. Happy days...

A new coilpack is £75. OK that's not too bad in the grand scheme of things, but when the car only cost £200 the principle of it niggles me.

Do you need new? Shed club insists members look around for good 2nd hand parts at times... my coil pack was 14 quid from eBay breakers :-)

[orangesrule]

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Edited by orangesrule on Tuesday 30th June 20:50