7 series ride is awful

@@paulmcgee1867 handles better, I rather a good handling car than a wafter.

I found that out with my A8. Maintenance costs were considerable when it went wrong.

As they say, if you couldn't afford it new, you can't afford a used one either :)

That's kind of obvious isn't it.

Thanks! I thought it was worthy of saving

If you look at AutoTrader, you can see that there are dealers that appear conscientious, and have good reviews, and at the other end of the scale there are dealers that clearly do no prep at all. There are also dealers across the midde ground. I have also read adverts by private sellers who bought their cars from dealers with great reputations, but have nonetheless had to spend large amounts to get the cars right. Most of the time Matt seems to go the extra mile, but there have also been times when he hasn't done jobs that I think should have been done and also the odd occasion when he's said he was going to do something that he didn't do. Of course, at the end of the day he's in businesss to make money. That said, I wouldn't hesitate to buy from Matt. It's pretty clear that he tries to do everything he can to make sure there will be no issues for his customers, but if anything major goes wrong in the first three months he bites the bullet and authorizes the repair or buys the car back, and that's reassuring. There's also another way to look at Matt's approach. Time is money and reputation is very important. It eats into profit to have to deal with faults after the cars have left the yard. There are also plenty of people who make a big deal over the smallest things, and also change their minds and look for any reason to get their money back. And these are also the people most eager to leave bad reviews. If you're a decent person like Matt, it's cheaper in the long run to do everything one can to prevent issues, and to have high levels of customer satisfaction. It also means that he can confidently ask higher prices. Overall, I'm sure he is actually making higher profits and building an ever stronger business.

My thoughts exactly.

£1250 tax? How on earth??

Ireland?

@@KartsAgainstHumanity That's the road tax we have on a 2.8L car. No surprise over that 20% of new car registrations are EVs here, where the annual road tax is only £100 or so.

@@connclissmann6514 they're all showing me £675/695 to tax on auto trader

Quite a storied car there mate, W221 still looks really good years later. Anyway, i think if you guys there in UK/Ireland had an old car to sold, you can import those cars here to Indonesia, here it’s rhd just like you guys & also people right here had quite a big appetite for used european cars as used car tax here is going down as the car gets older.

"non-fault" 🤣

Maybe it leaked when it was parked at the last owner's driveway

Should still have held a vacuum for 20 mins before regassing, just to be sure it didn't leak.

Still one of my fave Partridgeisms and used whenever possible 😂👍🏻

mercedes is meant for comfort yet every mercedes ive sat in A class till S and even a maybach theyre just uncomfy the seats just suck

If the rims were black then you would be on point. However, the car looks better without the tinted windows when the rims are silver.

For a ' Beginner' looking to buy an older luxobarge I would recommend a Mk3 XJ6. The problem is, you can no longer pick one up for under £5k

Diesel here is also more expensive than petrol cheapest diesel in my area atm is £1.52 a litre while petrol is £1.45 a litre. Roughly converts to about $8 per gallon for petrol and $10 per gallon for diesel.

You could buy one in UK and drive it back to Holland easy

As opposed to today's BMWs, which want to charge you a monthly fee to use the seat heaters. (admittedly, the apparently backpedalled from that, but for a few months there, they were quite serious with this joke.)

I don't see the problem with that. The lifetime cost of subscribing to the seat heaters will be about the same as buying them outright over 3 years and you can choose to have them or not. In fact - just subscribing over winter and you can have them without paying for them to be permanently there.@@pitecusH

There's no way heated seats was a basic option in a Corolla.

I took a shot in the dark with that one. You're probably right. My point is that there's no way a 60 grand car should expect people to pay for for arse warmers@@horvathr95

Yeah i dont think a corolla has luxury features like heated seats 😂😂😂

I’d say probably less than half the time it just needs gas

Need A new aircon guy 😅😅😅

They can get stone chipped and cause minor leaks - I know I've got it on one of my cars. We didn't gas it though as the garage machine does a vacuum test after extracting the old gas which showed it was leaking, visual inspection on the ramp it has several impacts on the condenser. Might be worth a dye check to confirm if it looks OK though before buying a new one. I assume the guy Matt used doesn't do a vacuum test?