My first Mercedes is an estate with 300bhp

[Jason_E]

Well I’m not sure how I ended up here.

Actually, I do. I was looking for an excuse to get another car since I’m now only an VW up! GTI man, and thought “I know, I’ll make it an estate and call it a dog car!”. So the usual sub £10k suspects (mostly Audi S cars and the like) were littering my eBay watch list.

Then @Daniel went and listed his E500 estate for sale.

So here it is

Luckily he bought a money pit and spend loads making it pretty good, but importantly, it still has niggles for me to sort. Buying a fully sorted car is boring.

The colour (Alexandrite green) is a special order, and I haven’t seen another W211 in it. Let alone the rare E500, and it’s a wagon. According to how many left the E500 alone is only a double figure car, the estate must be hens teeth. This? 1 of 1.

And then there’s the toys. Oh the toys! Does anyone need an electric parcel shelf? No. Do I love that it has one? Absolutely. Drove back from Brizzol with radar cruise control, massage seat and a BANGIN sound system. Absolute bliss.

And yes 300bhp is not a lot, really. But the way this thing can leave a 30 zone and rocket its way past the national speed limit is hilarious. It's unashamedly a massive mile muncher and i love it.

The dog hasnt had a look in yet. Ive ordered lowing links for it before ive fixed its niggles too.

Yes it'll be on me youtubez soon.

 

[McGherkin]

Great to see it's still on the forum. Simply loveleh.

 

[R3k1355]

300 ponies out of a 5 litre engine, kinda sounds like there might be scope to get a few more?

 

[Mr Squashie]

I saw this on Twitter earlier! No idea why though, I only follow 2 people and neither of them are you 😂

 

[Poopensharten]

Absolutely love that. The wheels are amazing on it!

 

[Bluebeard]

Absolutely love that. The wheels are amazing on it!

I think - genuinely - it’s the only set of wheels I’ve ever fitted to a car and I stood back and thought “f**k me dan, those are the ones!”

I’m not normally a fan of changing wheels but they suit it so well.

 

[Jason_E]

Great to see it's still on the forum. Simply loveleh.

The cliosport village bicycle

300 ponies out of a 5 litre engine, kinda sounds like there might be scope to get a few more?

I like that it’s the older, simpler engine and therefore less stressed for outright bhp…

I saw this on Twitter earlier! No idea why though, I only follow 2 people and neither of them are you 😂

I’m basically Kim Kardashian

Absolutely love that. The wheels are amazing on it!

Too right! Coles got some taste.

 

[McGherkin]

The cliosport village bicycle

Don't say that, I bought the last one

 

[Stefan.]

Bloody lovely.

The colour really does make it special.

 

[Poopensharten]

I think - genuinely - it’s the only set of wheels I’ve ever fitted to a car and I stood back and thought “f**k me dan, those are the ones!”

I’m not normally a fan of changing wheels but they suit it so well.

Are they aftermarket? Genuinely not seen a nicer looking colour/wheel combo on an estate car.

 

[Jason_E]

Are they aftermarket? Genuinely not seen a nicer looking colour/wheel combo on an estate car.

They’re Carlsson, Mercedes tuner. Awesome wheel!

 

[gavinf91]

Sick ride

 

[Daz.]

They’re Carlsson, Mercedes tuner. Awesome wheel!

Needs Turinis 😎😂

 

[Krarl]

CLIOSPORT CURSE BROKEN, SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT A CAR FROM DAN

First Poland gets sizzled and now this, why are BBC not reporting on this?!

 

[Bluebeard]

CLIOSPORT CURSE BROKEN, SOMEONE ACTUALLY BOUGHT A CAR FROM DAN

First Poland gets sizzled and now this, why are BBC not reporting on this?!

To be fair I’ve sold a few through CS this year. Off the top of my head; Merc E320, X5, E500, Golf GT, aygo. I’m sure there’s a couple more too.

 

[Krarl]

To be fair I’ve sold a few through CS this year. Off the top of my head; Merc E320, X5, E500, Golf GT, aygo. I’m sure there’s a couple more too.

Yeah but all of those were to @charltjr and he has some serious car buying issues 😂

 

[Louis]

Well I’m not sure how I ended up here.

Actually, I do. I was looking for an excuse to get another car since I’m now only an VW up! GTI man, and thought “I know, I’ll make it an estate and call it a dog car!”. So the usual sub £10k suspects (mostly Audi S cars and the like) were littering my eBay watch list.

Then @Daniel went and listed his E500 estate for sale.

So here it is

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Luckily he bought a money pit and spend loads making it pretty good, but importantly, it still has niggles for me to sort. Buying a fully sorted car is boring.

View attachment 1620287

The colour (Alexandrite green) is a special order, and I haven’t seen another W211 in it. Let alone the rare E500, and it’s a wagon. According to how many left the E500 alone is only a double figure car, the estate must be hens teeth. This? 1 of 1.

And then there’s the toys. Oh the toys! Does anyone need an electric parcel shelf? No. Do I love that it has one? Absolutely. Drove back from Brizzol with radar cruise control, massage seat and a BANGIN sound system. Absolute bliss.

And yes 300bhp is not a lot, really. But the way this thing can leave a 30 zone and rocket its way past the national speed limit is hilarious. It's unashamedly a massive mile muncher and i love it.

The dog hasnt had a look in yet. Ive ordered lowing links for it before ive fixed its niggles too.

Yes it'll be on me youtubez soon.

The fun @Daniel had in those massage seats in his birthday suit.

 

[Christopher]

So SO good

 

[Ocsltd]

This is naaaaaughty!

 

[charltjr]

To be fair, I sold the X5 to Daniel and bought the Golf off him, so I'm as much sinner as sinned against.

I totally, totally would have had this if I'd not bought the Macan - it tickles every single one of my car buying vulnerabilities, of which there are many

Glad to see it stay on the forum.

 

[leeds_182]

Sick whip bru.

 

[Waitey]

LPG it!

 

[Jason_E]

Front lowered in 20mins with some adjustable links. Looks miles better!

 

[_Tom]

Absolutely love this car. Top purchase.

 

[Sir_Dave]

Absolutely love this car. Top purchase.

Basically this. Flipping lovely bus.

 

[RSRowe]

Would love something like this for wafting around in.
Colour is epic too

 

[Jason_E]

Can’t believe I just paid £55 for plates but….

Bobble hat spec. OG supplier was Mercedes Corporate (someone bought it for business use….) and then it was serviced at Park Royal, before that closed and it was looked after Chelsea. So based on that I went for the Chelsea plates 😂

 

[Christopher]

Tory plate

 

[Willo40]

Epic car this, any plans to free up some noise?

 

[leeds_182]

Baller.

 

[Christopher]

There's a wagons day at Bicester Heritage I'm going to in Jan. You in?

 

[Jamie86]

There's a wagons day at Bicester Heritage I'm going to in Jan. You in?

Any more details? Can’t see anything on website?

 

[fakeConcern]

Looking forward to the Youtube content.

Talking of toys, does it have this?

 

[Christopher]

Any more details? Can’t see anything on website?

I just saw it on their IG a while back and planned to go - not looked since. Hopefully it's not been canned!

 

[daydotz]

Wagon roll up is part of the January scramble and they were looking for cars to display on the main lawn

 

[Robbie Corbett]

Well I’m not sure how I ended up here.

Actually, I do. I was looking for an excuse to get another car since I’m now only an VW up! GTI man, and thought “I know, I’ll make it an estate and call it a dog car!”. So the usual sub £10k suspects (mostly Audi S cars and the like) were littering my eBay watch list.

Then @Daniel went and listed his E500 estate for sale.

So here it is

View attachment 1620286

Luckily he bought a money pit and spend loads making it pretty good, but importantly, it still has niggles for me to sort. Buying a fully sorted car is boring.

View attachment 1620287

The colour (Alexandrite green) is a special order, and I haven’t seen another W211 in it. Let alone the rare E500, and it’s a wagon. According to how many left the E500 alone is only a double figure car, the estate must be hens teeth. This? 1 of 1.

And then there’s the toys. Oh the toys! Does anyone need an electric parcel shelf? No. Do I love that it has one? Absolutely. Drove back from Brizzol with radar cruise control, massage seat and a BANGIN sound system. Absolute bliss.

And yes 300bhp is not a lot, really. But the way this thing can leave a 30 zone and rocket its way past the national speed limit is hilarious. It's unashamedly a massive mile muncher and i love it.

The dog hasnt had a look in yet. Ive ordered lowing links for it before ive fixed its niggles too.

Yes it'll be on me youtubez soon.

Much jealousy.

I love it so much and wrote about 10 texts to Dan, deleting each one. It would end up as the family/kids wagon and I just couldn't face watching her destroy it while listening to the mpg moans 😞

 

[Gally]

It's all levels of win. One of my favourite cars on the forum!

 

[Jason_E]

I’ve started fixing some of the niggles already!

 

[Jason_E]

The standard Command unit was fine, but it was very out dated. The Bluetooth wasn’t compatible with modern phones, and there was no aux in!

When I had my E39, the previous owner had fitted an android unit. I’ve always been skeptical of these cheap (although, not THAT cheap) Chinese units compared to something from a more trusted brand. However, they are more “OEM” looking. Also, having used it I was properly impressed with its responsiveness and features.

Fastforward to this E Class, and it looks like there’s a tonne of options from AliExpress which maintain the OEM look whilst giving you up to date features. And for whatever reason they’re much cheaper than most other brands.

Anyway, for £180 delivered I got this (plus a long adapter harness that needs to go to the boot)

It looks almost exactly like the factory unit. However it has:

4G and GPS
Wireless Apple CarPlay
Can play most video files
Working Bluetooth

And of course being Android, you can pretty much download whatever app you desire for it. It also came with a backup camera, which is ideal as this car is 9 miles long and I haven’t got round to fixing the parking sensors. Having said that I haven’t got round to fitting this camera, either.

I’ll be doing an install video on my YouTube. But all in all I’m very impressed with it all!

 

[Pep]

I love the sunglasses holders on these.