46k on my wife’s year old Compass. 2.4, 6at, leather, Bluetooth. It’s nice, rides well, quiet, and exactly problem free so far. importantly, it was only 23k after rebates and wife loves it. The complaints are all over stated .

I wanna meet the BMW that fucked you up.

Neat.

Very, very unfeasible in yours.

K.

99 C43. however, in full disclosure when it hit 297k it needed a new timing chain due to rattle. $1700 from my indie to replace.

*firmly hugs 17 year old AMG with 300k miles and nearly-zero maintenance costs*

300k on my 99 C43. Oil consumption not enough to measure. Requires zero top offs on 15k mile intervals. Weeeeeee

For 5k you won’t affect the induction or dyno results in any way. But the m113 sounds great with deleted resonator and secondary cats . muscular but very tame.

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Something they inherited in the Daimler merger, I believe. Every Mercedes since 1994 has had a 4k rev limit when stationary.

Aerospace degree here (focused on FBO/Airline mgmt instead of pilot) but graduated with a dozen guys who became regional pilots. Absolutely none of them are making anywhere near those numbers. 3 of them have to share a house to afford rent. One quit and started managing a Staples in Kansas so he could afford to have a…

$30k in receipts would be normal for any top tier german car at that age. I bought a C43 with 238k on the clock and it had about that much in service history (almost 10k in an entirely new transmission and TCU from the dealer). But it’s not a BMW so I know it was probably never hooned (doctor-driven between offices in…

An astute point. I’ve made it a very serious rule in my family that we’ll never buy a car from that kind of establishment, no matter what history I can dig up on the car. The car ended up there for a reason. They paid way less than what they are asking for it. Normally I’d throw 3,300 their way and fully expect to…

A C class AMG. Bravo. C32 is getting hard to find.

1999 C43 AMG. Through 294,000 miles it got a water pump, a handful of idler pulleys (common on M113), recalled harmonic balancer, and finally needed a timing chain. Even with those miles and a loudly rattling timing chain, it was hitting 60mph 0.3 seconds faster than factory estimated 5.9sec. Timing chain job was…

That sounds like a good deal. Typically w203 C55's go for more. My math still stands true that you could have a w202 C55 built for cheaper, but it’s not much cheaper. To get a similarly clean C43 you’d be spending a minimum 4500. 55 engines are around 1200+ and I paid my shop around 1800 to drop it in, plus a new…

I understand. Toss it.

But if 55 fun is your game, depending on what a basket case that w203 C55 might be, you can almost certainly build your own w202 C55 out of a C43 or even find one that’s already swapped for cheaper. I bought a C43 with 240k on it, drove it 5 years, in lieu of a timing chain I dropped in a 99 E55…

Long time w202 owner, driver, lover here. If you were close to me I’d love to open some beers with you and help fix it. Hate to see them sit!

The stock C43 transmission can stay in the car. I drive a 99 C43 with an E55 motor every day. The transmissions are identical. I’m glad to see many people aware you can do this swap, but it’s actually an easier and cheaper swap than most people realize. All you need is a $6 water spout on the back of the 55 motor’s…