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Long story short I found a great deal, I picked this S500 up for $20k. Bank values it at $29.

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u/Skeppyberry 10h ago

20k?? Gotta tell me what it needs and how much. That’s a steal I might consider

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u/crwcz 10h ago

So it was at a dealership back in October where it went under their 100 something point inspection, they replaced the lower control arm and a few other things, they were also trying to find the little chrome piece for the grill that's missing. I passed on the deal because they had a no haggle price at 25k and I just wasn't comfortable paying that plus their admin fee. So I last weekend or so I seen the same exact car posted for about the same amount, turns out a salesman there at the dealer bought the car, might have gotten in over his head so I bought it from him and offered 20k which happened to be his payoff. It needs nothing! The wipers might be clogged.. I dunno, still need to investigate it.. not about to tear into repairs yet. I tend to work on my own cars.

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u/Skeppyberry 9h ago

See my rational for a first car is a model 3 long range (not highland) with accel boost (460hp with it). That’s my decision but thats a MUCH nicer car haha. I hope you enjoy it. Do you have Burmester?

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u/crwcz 9h ago

Yeah! It's got every single option minus the night vision and unfortunately they discontinued Mbrace for this model year. Someone said this is a short wheelbase, which is rare for the US, I'm in Missouri. The carfax did say it was owned in Europe, Canada, Miami, New York now here. I'll take a few pics.

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u/Skeppyberry 9h ago

not sure what Mbrace is. Does it have the full spinning tweeter Burmester or just the metal grille in the doors (both are amazing)

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u/crwcz 8h ago

Mbrace is the app that used to use but it's discontinued for my year. It's for remote start since there's no button on the remote. So stupid. This one doesn't have the spinny tweeters. I could add those but I don't really want to tear into the door panel removal for this car. I can live without it lol.

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u/Skeppyberry 8h ago

Technically you can’t add the real ones because the have a different resistance and need a different amp which would require every other speaker and door panel to get replaced so don’t bother. The base Burmester is PLENTY good haha. But my friends 2014 CLS still works with MercedesMe and has remote start. Check out the Mercedes me app

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u/crwcz 7h ago

Don't get my hopes up lol, I don't think it will work but I will dl it and try.

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u/Skeppyberry 7h ago

I MIGHT work I’m not sure. But the app at least will. For like gas level in the car I think. You could always get aftermarket remote start

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u/crwcz 7h ago

* Yeah and when I got to this point the other day and called the folks on the 1800 number told me the car had to be 2017 or newer, but folks on here told me to call the dealer and raise hell to get it activated

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u/Skeppyberry 7h ago

I’m sure you could use the “I just bought an S class and you can’t even give me an app for remote start. Are you serious?“ Card. That will prob work

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u/Skeppyberry 7h ago

My Audi dealer told me my 2019 Audi couldn’t be activated. So I went through tons and tons of back alley websites that are old unused Audi websites and forced activated it myself because it technically wasn’t unsupported.

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