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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I have 11 years of experience with the Germans (7.5 years BMW, 3.5 years Mercedes), and they have never stranded me anywhere ... except once, 30 yards from my house, and it was a warrantied throttle position sensor. But the key word... warrantied. While they're usually pretty good once the previous owners have sorted the bugs, I don't think you could convince me to own a modern German car off warranty unless I didn't rely on it. The parts are expensive, and working on them is a bitch because they are seemingly packaged by a Tetris champion, so the labour is calculated high by default (even for stuff that is actually easy to fix, speaking from experience).
What years are you looking at, and do any of them at all qualify for a Mercedes CPO warranty? If not, do you love them enough to overlook that it might get expensive, especially if it was traded in because the last owner ran out of warranty and money? I don't have a lot of faith in car dealers actually getting the important stuff fixed so much as masked.
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The one I was thinking about is a 2012 with just over 120,000km so no possibility of any extended warranty. The positives are that it is in great condition, has full service records with some work done earlier this year like brakes and it is a diesel which in general should be better for reliability. Obviously the worrisome part is the cost of potential future repairs. Ideally I'm hoping this would be a stop gap vehicle until I can get a decently discounted Palisade or GV80 but that might be 2 years or so.