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I bought a NEW luxury car, but I wouldn't buy a used one. Why? The good majority of them are lease returns. Leasers drive them hard, don't properly break them in, etc. Why should they? They're just dumping the car off in a year or two. Kind of like buying a house that was rented. Renters are generally pigs.
People using car ramps and 2x4's to raise your car up should invest in a good jack. I never understood why people that to do their own work wont buy tools.
Hell of a lot smarter than changing the oil under a jack.
Hell of a lot smarter than changing the oil under a jack.
Right!
Why would I add more work to my oil change by breaking out the jack and jack stands when I can just drive onto my ramps and let the car do all the work?
How used are we talking about? If op is talking about a 10 year old S500 for 5k with busted xenon headlights, And busted air shocks and a dash that lights up like a Christmas tree.
Then there is my 1985 Mercedes Benz 190D 2.2 sedan. It only had 84,000 miles on the odometer when I purchased it. A look yesterday shows 310,000 miles. (Diesels run 'forever' as long as you change the oil religiously.) Again, just normal maintenance.
My newest car is a Lexus RX400H that I purchased as a lease return at the dealership with 58,000 miles on it. It now has 185,000 miles on the odometer. But I'll give you that one. If it were not for the extended warranty of being a 'certified used car', it would have cost me a pretty penny to replace the audio system. Otherwise, no problems with the car.
Mercedes 500 sedan. Cost of part - one headlight - $3,250.
Ford or Chevrolet - one headlight - around $250.00.
Enough said.
Wow did you even research what you wrote before starting this ridiculous thread? I found your "$3.2K" headlights anywhere from $450-$1000. And if some moron pays another $2200 in labor to replace the headlight assembly to add to the grand total of $3250, they deserve to lose their money. Hint: at $90/hour that would mean it took the tech 25 hours to replace the headlight at that price!
Moral of the story for people posting stuff like this or $800 battery replacement: If your not going to put in the effort to find an honest shop and pay the first price quoted, then its not that the car has expensive maintenance. It means your the gullible victim that dishonest car dealers make tons of $$ from. In case your wondering, no I don't or never have owned a Mercedes.
people come up with some of the lamest logic ever to justify their tastes.
You don't want a Mercedes...don't buy one. Simple as that.
It's not about taste. I'd love to spend my vacation in a penthouse at Claridge's, but my reason for not doing so is not a rationalization of a taste issue.
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