I have bought several decent cars at copart. Sometimes they are donation vehicles, or dealer wholesale
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I have a 05 211 4m E320 wagon with 235kmi or so and it’s great. I love it. > The 04$400E500 is mechanically solid at 144kmi or so. 211s are decent and > more comfortable and a little better equipped than 210s although the 210 is > perfectly competent though not particularly exciting except maybe for an E55 > or maybe E430. > > CoPart apparently sell stealer cast-offs or older trade-ins so in that > respect it’s like a UCD but auction. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Oct 3, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> According to Dan and Rick the 210 is the Camry of Mercedes. I was casually >> looking at wagons and found two 211 wagons. One has 99K on it and is sort >> of a boring beige with dark gray interior. I’m wondering if the fact that >> it is almost to 100,000 miles that means a bunch of neglected maintenance >> will be due. >> >> I also found another one that has 155K in it and it half the price. Silver >> over tan. The price is good, but when I googled the VIN number, I found it >> was sold at Copart almost 2 months ago with 144K on it. I don’t think the >> fact that it was sold Copart disqualifies it automatically. But, it does >> make me wonder how it would end up there instead of at a dealer if it’s as >> nice as it looks. >> >> Both of these are 2009 which I think means they are after the problem with a >> gear/sprocket that is too soft. I don’t know much about that. Both are also >> 4matic and both are gas. >> >> Finally, I found a 2013 E350 4matoc with 102K. It is obviously the most >> expensive being more than double the cheapest and 150% of the other. I know >> Zero about the 212. >> >> >> >> Donald H. Snook >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
