Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 14]

[Krikkit]

E65Ross said:

trooperiziz said:

£1130 in the end, let's hope the buyer actually comes through! It looks to be a BMW specialist who has bought it, so I expect it is destined to be a parts car.

That's not bad for a breaker sale. If it was working I don't think you'd have got over £2k!

I think that's a good deal for both of you, assuming he turns up. He gets a near complete car to break or repair, you get a decent payout to find the next barge, or barge titivation

[trooperiziz]

E65Ross said:

trooperiziz said:

£1130 in the end, let's hope the buyer actually comes through! It looks to be a BMW specialist who has bought it, so I expect it is destined to be a parts car.

That's not bad for a breaker sale. If it was working I don't think you'd have got over £2k!

Not bad? It's pretty amazing I was pleased with the £700 offer.

I've already had a message from one of the other bidders saying they will pay the final price if the sale falls through, so prospects look good.

I've upped my replacement budget to £1500, time to get seriously hunting.

[E65Ross]

What sort of car are you after as a replacement?

I think you'll get the sale amount then, so that's great.

[trooperiziz]

E65Ross said:

What sort of car are you after as a replacement?

I think you'll get the sale amount then, so that's great.

Current front runner is a MK2 mx5 for the summer, if I can find a non-rotten one. If not that, then anything thready.

[Northbrook]

GTI16V said:

Afternoon all.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-wagon/173...

Restored, yet the driver's bolster has exploded? Wouldn't be my choice at £4k, particularly not in white, although it does look quite clean.

[W00DY]

trooperiziz said:

E65Ross said:

trooperiziz said:

£1130 in the end, let's hope the buyer actually comes through! It looks to be a BMW specialist who has bought it, so I expect it is destined to be a parts car.

That's not bad for a breaker sale. If it was working I don't think you'd have got over £2k!

Not bad? It's pretty amazing I was pleased with the £700 offer.

I've already had a message from one of the other bidders saying they will pay the final price if the sale falls through, so prospects look good.

I've upped my replacement budget to £1500, time to get seriously hunting.

Awesome. It certainly makes the E65 bork seem less intimidating knowing there's such a high spares price.

[andy ted]

Not quite sure if this counts but a very clean junior barge (c180) with 44k miles for £3250 shame no auto but imagine the small engine needs a stir anyway. As an inside this dealer seems to have some great stock at many multiples of thread price! (Carat Cullinan anyone?) Have we had them before? Apologies if so I struggle to keep up!

https://edward-hall.co.uk/1997-mercedes-benz-c180-...

[SD_1]

andy ted said:

Not quite sure if this counts but a very clean junior barge (c180) with 44k miles for £3250 shame no auto but imagine the small engine needs a stir anyway. As an inside this dealer seems to have some great stock at many multiples of thread price! (Carat Cullinan anyone?) Have we had them before? Apologies if so I struggle to keep up!

https://edward-hall.co.uk/1997-mercedes-benz-c180-...

Looks very clean indeed, but that seems like an awfully large sum for a basic spec C180?

[W00DY]

SD_1 said:

andy ted said:

Not quite sure if this counts but a very clean junior barge (c180) with 44k miles for £3250 shame no auto but imagine the small engine needs a stir anyway. As an inside this dealer seems to have some great stock at many multiples of thread price! (Carat Cullinan anyone?) Have we had them before? Apologies if so I struggle to keep up!

https://edward-hall.co.uk/1997-mercedes-benz-c180-...

Looks very clean indeed, but that seems like an awfully large sum for a basic spec C180?

I can think of a million better ways to spend 3 grand.

[W00DY]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-Alpina-B10-4-6-V8-S...


Over budget and wearing the wrong headlights, but phwoar!

[SpeckledJim]

W00DY said:

SD_1 said:

andy ted said:

Not quite sure if this counts but a very clean junior barge (c180) with 44k miles for £3250 shame no auto but imagine the small engine needs a stir anyway. As an inside this dealer seems to have some great stock at many multiples of thread price! (Carat Cullinan anyone?) Have we had them before? Apologies if so I struggle to keep up!

https://edward-hall.co.uk/1997-mercedes-benz-c180-...

Looks very clean indeed, but that seems like an awfully large sum for a basic spec C180?

I can think of a million better ways to spend 3 grand.

Me too, but he’s only looking for one buyer, and that’s still a proper Mercedes, IMO.

Not a top-tier, real-deal, pukka old-school Mercedes, but it’s one of those cars that still drove and felt like only a Mercedes drove and felt. It’s still idiosyncratic, in a way that the cars which followed are not.

[JOB2.5-16]

SpeckledJim said:

Me too, but he’s only looking for one buyer, and that’s still a proper Mercedes, IMO.

Not a top-tier, real-deal, pukka old-school Mercedes, but it’s one of those cars that still drove and felt like only a Mercedes drove and felt. It’s still idiosyncratic, in a way that the cars which followed are not.

Quite right, a W202 still gives the feeling of an old Mercedes, but just doesn't have the substance somehow. I don't know what it is, the weight of the controls being slightly different, the door closes slightly less reassuring. These, and W210s are in some intangible way, not a 190E or W124. Usually, that can be followed by the statement "good value, though."

[SpeckledJim]

JOB2.5-16 said:

SpeckledJim said:

Me too, but he’s only looking for one buyer, and that’s still a proper Mercedes, IMO.

Not a top-tier, real-deal, pukka old-school Mercedes, but it’s one of those cars that still drove and felt like only a Mercedes drove and felt. It’s still idiosyncratic, in a way that the cars which followed are not.

Quite right, a W202 still gives the feeling of an old Mercedes, but just doesn't have the substance somehow. I don't know what it is, the weight of the controls being slightly different, the door closes slightly less reassuring. These, and W210s are in some intangible way, not a 190E or W124. Usually, that can be followed by the statement "good value, though."

I’m nodding. W202 and W210 are simultaneously there and not-quite-there.

But in comparison to anything that followed, from any manufacturer they’re a fair demonstration of what Mercedes used to be. Our multiple W211 are good, proper, cars, but if you told me they were designed and engineered by people who had never even sat in a W124 or W123 then I’d believe you. Yet W210 feels a true part of that lineage.

Mercedes and BMW are today essentially analogous, but no BMW has ever felt like a W202.

[minimoog]

It occurs to me I've had almost zero experience of Mercedeses. I've been in a fairly shagged out 190 maybe twice, a mid-2000s C class once as lift to/from the station when viewing a car. Oh and I test drove a 2003 E Class briefly (it was very nice).

That's it. I can't have done more than 50 miles in a Merc in my whole life

[SpeckledJim]

minimoog said:

It occurs to me I've had almost zero experience of Mercedeses. I've been in a fairly shagged out 190 maybe twice, a mid-2000s C class once as lift to/from the station when viewing a car. Oh and I test drove a 2003 E Class briefly (it was very nice).

That's it. I can't have done more than 50 miles in a Merc in my whole life

Sad tale.

Remember when Top Gear concluded that Lancia was the greatest manufacturer (or whatever)?

Well it was bks, the answer is Mercedes-Benz, by a country mile.

IMO, but not really, because it’s self-evident. IMO (but not really). Self-evident.

[Jaffers]

Northbrook said:

GTI16V said:

Afternoon all.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-wagon/173...

Restored, yet the driver's bolster has exploded? Wouldn't be my choice at £4k, particularly not in white, although it does look quite clean.

And it's a poorly written ad that doesn't mention the mileage (160,000) and claims that it's got both climate control and cruise control but there's no evidence of either in the photos (I'm open to being corrected though...)

[Escapegoat]

minimoog said:

It occurs to me I've had almost zero experience of Mercedeses. I've been in a fairly shagged out 190 maybe twice, a mid-2000s C class once as lift to/from the station when viewing a car. Oh and I test drove a 2003 E Class briefly (it was very nice).

That's it. I can't have done more than 50 miles in a Merc in my whole life

Not even a taxi (beige-coloured, natch) in some semi-despot-controlled part of the world?

They can seem a bit ... well, agricultural with the typically lower trim levels and even lower maintenance standards. But they are kept going, and I always have a little smile when I get in one.

In comparison, modern MBs (like the current E and S class we get to the airport) leave me completely cold. Terrible ride comfort, too, without having the excuse of being on 200,000m shocks and springs.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

JOB2.5-16 said:

SpeckledJim said:

Me too, but he’s only looking for one buyer, and that’s still a proper Mercedes, IMO.

Not a top-tier, real-deal, pukka old-school Mercedes, but it’s one of those cars that still drove and felt like only a Mercedes drove and felt. It’s still idiosyncratic, in a way that the cars which followed are not.

Quite right, a W202 still gives the feeling of an old Mercedes, but just doesn't have the substance somehow. I don't know what it is, the weight of the controls being slightly different, the door closes slightly less reassuring. These, and W210s are in some intangible way, not a 190E or W124. Usually, that can be followed by the statement "good value, though."

I could not agree.








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[minimoog]

Escapegoat said:

Not even a taxi (beige-coloured, natch) in some semi-despot-controlled part of the world?

Now you mention it, I did get a taxi from Schonefeld into Berlin centrum once so call it 60 miles

[JOB2.5-16]

SpeckledJim said:

Sad tale.

Remember when Top Gear concluded that Lancia was the greatest manufacturer (or whatever)?

Well it was bks, the answer is Mercedes-Benz, by a country mile.

IMO, but not really, because it’s self-evident. IMO (but not really). Self-evident.

A humble opinion shared by many satisfied owners who have enjoyed hundreds of thousands of trouble free miles. Some cars do certain things better than an old Mercedes, but nothing does everything so well.