Have surprised myself in my new choice of car.
11 September 2012, 09:06 PM
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Have surprised myself in my new choice of car.
After having had over 3 years of owning (and loving ) my 4.8 X5, I decided that I again wanted a more sporty car for nice days (few and far between in Aberdeen).
I considered most options and eventually bought my first ever Mercedes!!
Had always loved the sound when it was the F1 pace car, and so got myself an SL 55 AMG.
It has a full Mercedes sevice history, more toys than I thought ever came on any car, has only 47K miles and sounds like thunder with 493 bhp of a hand built 5.4 liter V8 exitting through the 4 exhausts. Makes the X5's V8 sound timid.
Very impressed so far but am resigned to a variety of future electronic glitches (as there is so much that can theoretically go wrong.)
Will continue to run the X5 on "normal" days .
These Mercs have depreciated from 100K plus new to circa 20K-30K now.
I considered most options and eventually bought my first ever Mercedes!!
Had always loved the sound when it was the F1 pace car, and so got myself an SL 55 AMG.
It has a full Mercedes sevice history, more toys than I thought ever came on any car, has only 47K miles and sounds like thunder with 493 bhp of a hand built 5.4 liter V8 exitting through the 4 exhausts. Makes the X5's V8 sound timid.
Very impressed so far but am resigned to a variety of future electronic glitches (as there is so much that can theoretically go wrong.)
Will continue to run the X5 on "normal" days .
These Mercs have depreciated from 100K plus new to circa 20K-30K now.
11 September 2012, 10:35 PM
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After having had over 3 years of owning (and loving ) my 4.8 X5, I decided that I again wanted a more sporty car for nice days (few and far between in Aberdeen).
I considered most options and eventually bought my first ever Mercedes!!
Had always loved the sound when it was the F1 pace car, and so got myself an SL 55 AMG.
It has a full Mercedes sevice history, more toys than I thought ever came on any car, has only 47K miles and sounds like thunder with 493 bhp of a hand built 5.4 liter V8 exitting through the 4 exhausts. Makes the X5's V8 sound timid.
Very impressed so far but am resigned to a variety of future electronic glitches (as there is so much that can theoretically go wrong.)
Will continue to run the X5 on "normal" days .
These Mercs have depreciated from 100K plus new to circa 20K-30K now.
I considered most options and eventually bought my first ever Mercedes!!
Had always loved the sound when it was the F1 pace car, and so got myself an SL 55 AMG.
It has a full Mercedes sevice history, more toys than I thought ever came on any car, has only 47K miles and sounds like thunder with 493 bhp of a hand built 5.4 liter V8 exitting through the 4 exhausts. Makes the X5's V8 sound timid.
Very impressed so far but am resigned to a variety of future electronic glitches (as there is so much that can theoretically go wrong.)
Will continue to run the X5 on "normal" days .
These Mercs have depreciated from 100K plus new to circa 20K-30K now.
I know it's a cliche but this thread is useless without pics! Get them up and lets have a look see!
I'm a major fan of the na AMG engines, they sound and go like mental
In your research what was your conclusion about reliability?
12 September 2012, 08:12 AM
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The major conclusion is that once my warranty from the dealer expires I should take out a "full" warranty with either AA or Warranty wise (roughly £800 annually) to cover the expected bills.
To put the complexity into perspective, the owner's manual is 376 pages and the "comand" (SatNAV/Audio) is 265 pages.!
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