Just something to see if it works. Mod on Duty!

[ATM]

BIRMA said:

I had a sum set aside of £20K (which I bought shares with) just in case in true Luxo Barge fashion it went tits up. Its a 2004 car with only 62K miles so not even run in yet. To date I've only needed £500 for PAS pipes so I'm well up on the idea, if it needed a few £1000 spending on it I may have otherwise its worth more in spares. I guess my wife may have something to say if I did dismantle it for spares in the drive though.
I have now put the car up for sale for £4K as I've just bought a Mercedes CL65 AMG to replace it

Where can we find more info on the 65?

[BIRMA]

ATM said:

BIRMA said:

I had a sum set aside of £20K (which I bought shares with) just in case in true Luxo Barge fashion it went tits up. Its a 2004 car with only 62K miles so not even run in yet. To date I've only needed £500 for PAS pipes so I'm well up on the idea, if it needed a few £1000 spending on it I may have otherwise its worth more in spares. I guess my wife may have something to say if I did dismantle it for spares in the drive though.
I have now put the car up for sale for £4K as I've just bought a Mercedes CL65 AMG to replace it

Where can we find more info on the 65?

There's not a lot of info on them, there are only 26 of them in the UK they cost £150K new and have a monster twin turbo V12 producing 620 BHP and 1000Nm of torque. I've had some fast cars but this is in another league it's like 'Warp Factor 4 Mr Sulu' as they say. Big maintenance costs as you would expect but hey life is too short. Love the Phaeton and may keep it.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I suspect the question was seeking information about this particular car, which just may be up for sale somewhere.

[BIRMA]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I suspect the question was seeking information about this particular car, which just may be up for sale somewhere.

In that case it's been on e-bay and Autotrader and still is. Not sure why it's not been noted as sold.

[ATM]

BIRMA said:

In that case it's been on e-bay and Autotrader and still is. Not sure why it's not been noted as sold.

Ok got it. I presumed it was the earlier shape. I've seen a couple of these is Merc dealerships but never on the road. I've only ever seen one in the later shape and that was in Bulgaria with Russian plates. Nice car.

[BIRMA]

ATM said:

BIRMA said:

In that case it's been on e-bay and Autotrader and still is. Not sure why it's not been noted as sold.

Ok got it. I presumed it was the earlier shape. I've seen a couple of these is Merc dealerships but never on the road. I've only ever seen one in the later shape and that was in Bulgaria with Russian plates. Nice car.

As posting a picture of it in this section may cause the odd wobble I've posted it in the Mercedes section under post a picture of your Mercedes.
Yes it is the later model, never been a fan of the older design dashboard/console area and hopefully not as prone to the old coil pack nightmare as the earlier ones where shutting down one bank of the V was thought to be the main cause.

[ATM]

BIRMA said:

As posting a picture of it in this section may cause the odd wobble I've posted it in the Mercedes section under post a picture of your Mercedes.
Yes it is the later model, never been a fan of the older design dashboard/console area and hopefully not as prone to the old coil pack nightmare as the earlier ones where shutting down one bank of the V was thought to be the main cause.

Do the later models not shut down half the engine?

[BIRMA]

ATM said:

BIRMA said:

As posting a picture of it in this section may cause the odd wobble I've posted it in the Mercedes section under post a picture of your Mercedes.
Yes it is the later model, never been a fan of the older design dashboard/console area and hopefully not as prone to the old coil pack nightmare as the earlier ones where shutting down one bank of the V was thought to be the main cause.

Do the later models not shut down half the engine?

No they don't.

[Blown2CV]

will someone please buy a Bentley Conti GT inside of thread budg and report back extensively...?

[BIRMA]

Thought I'd throw this into the barge mix although in the upper price scale Mercedes CL63 and the CL600 are now coming onto the market. CL63 has a wonderful N/A engine that sounds and goes as only big AMG's can. So does the CL600 for those lovers of turbine smooth V12's but expect slightly higher running costs for the V12's.

[ATM]

BIRMA said:

Thought I'd throw this into the barge mix although in the upper price scale Mercedes CL63 and the CL600 are now coming onto the market. CL63 has a wonderful N/A engine that sounds and goes as only big AMG's can. So does the CL600 for those lovers of turbine smooth V12's but expect slightly higher running costs for the V12's.

Did you forget a link?

[BIRMA]

ATM said:

BIRMA said:

Thought I'd throw this into the barge mix although in the upper price scale Mercedes CL63 and the CL600 are now coming onto the market. CL63 has a wonderful N/A engine that sounds and goes as only big AMG's can. So does the CL600 for those lovers of turbine smooth V12's but expect slightly higher running costs for the V12's.

Did you forget a link?

Not sure whats wrong with the Autrader site at the moment but I can't seem to get to the cars I'd been looking at, but to just re-cap there are a couple of 2007 CL63 AMG's just under £20K also on e-bay and I'm not sure whether the immaculate 2007 CL 600 I enquired after finished its time on e-bay but it was faultless and £18K.

[ATM]

BIRMA said:

Not sure whats wrong with the Autrader site at the moment but I can't seem to get to the cars I'd been looking at, but to just re-cap there are a couple of 2007 CL63 AMG's just under £20K also on e-bay and I'm not sure whether the immaculate 2007 CL 600 I enquired after finished its time on e-bay but it was faultless and £18K.

Found that one - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252845806010

Did you view it?

[BIRMA]

Yes that was lovely, but could not do a deal with the guy. But for £18K its a steal (well I better qualify that) running costs for the fabulous engine will be high if you do things properly. These cars were in excess of £100K new so this car that isn't even run in yet represents to me at least something worth considering as a potential barge within the budget. For those who like a bit more of a soundtrack with equal pace then there is the CL63 AMG. But don't think for one minute you can skimp on servicing them although there are a lot of independents who can do a perfectly good job.

[GDub44]

TwistingMyMelon said:

That Benters is on Ebay... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bentley-Continental-Flyi...


The ad has been expanded to another sentence!! Two sentences !!!

Looks nice though

Now on AT for £24,995 with The Jack Henry Group.

[jamoor]

GDub44 said:

Now on AT for £24,995 with The Jack Henry Group.

ARe you sure? The mileage on that one is half!

[GDub44]

jamoor said:

ARe you sure? The mileage on that one is half!

Sorry. See Jobbo's post of 25 April.

[ATM]

GDub44 said:

Sorry. See Jobbo's post of 25 April.

This is the one I think and priced at 19

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...

[Blown2CV]

Late model Jag XJ... petrol, pref supercharged.... worth a punt?

[hornetrider]

Let's have a high spec F10 550i. Lovely jubbly.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2017...