Nice car SLO, although silver isn't my colour of choice, wonder of its worth getting it protected underneath? Hope it serves you well.

Agree SLO...the W124 is probably the only Merc I'd buy.

If it does half as well as Terence then you'll not have done too badly I guess.

Mercedes is owned by Pendragon - AKA Stratstone/Evans Halshaw/Carstore

£4Bn turnover and makes about £60m profit

You would think turning over big bucks and charging megabucks for Services etc it would be a lot more. In the past decades they expended by paying Big Bucks for smaller chains.

Apparently assets are modest compared to turnover and the whole dealer stock are financed/ manufacturer stock rather than owned and all premises etc etc are rented.

Luckily we have an independent here in Northamptonshire who I has been in the business 50/years so there’s not much that he doesn’t know about MB.

He is so much in demand that the wait there can be just as long.

But the fuel tank and range will be the same.

That may well be true but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. The point is that a high mileage leaf, famous as the EV with the worst battery degredation of all with no active cooling, used and abused as a taxi and almost constantly fast charged still has 90% left at nearly 130k miles and should have plenty more miles in it.

The idea was to possibly reassure people (like me) who usually buy used and usually cheaper high mileage cars that the future in an EV world isn't necessarily bleak and to make a comment on the leaf 62 in particular which was mentioned above.

Edited by pd on 17/10/2024 at 08:48

Fair enough. It was the comment about the EV’s modest loss of its ability to hold a a charge (and so a modest loss of range) and an ice having a small loss of engine power. I was just pointing out that the ice would not have a smaller fuel tank so the range is unaffected.

Fair point. I think the thing is that as we get used to higher mileage and older EVs entering the used market we'll have to get used to looking for different things than we are used to on current ICE cars.

That's not necessarily better or worse, just different. You won't be worrying about the clutch bite point any more or whether it smoking under load but looking at battery SOH and cell variances.