General ML question
 

What would be considered as a high mileage ML? MB has a reputation where 100k is nothing. Does the ML hold true to this as well?

thanks
Fred

I've always considered 25K miles a year a high mileage car. At 200K any MB is high mileage.

Other than the 1998-99 models the ML is a reliable beast.

Agreed. I believe it's the accumulated miles/year and not just total miles.

That said, I would be more inclined to buy a vehicle with a lot of highway miles as opposed to an extremely low-mileage version of the same model. Seliing price would be advantageous on the high-mileage version as well.

A neighbor of mine had a power steering pump replaced three times on an R129 that had less than 10K on the odometer, but pretty much was a decade-old garage queen. MB designed their vehicles to be driven, not sitting in a glass case.

I did trade my 99 ML for the 07 I have now. The 99 had 99K on the clock at the time. Despite the pre-00 W163 horror stories it was actually quite reliable. But after pouring in a ton of money into my W124 for the top-end rebuild and emissions corrections, I decided I wasn't going to gamble on whether an expensive ML repair would be looming in the horizon...

Thanks for all the replies. I saw one on Craigslist and the priced seemed too good to be true. I figured the seller was legit since CL ads are local, but when I asked her about seeing the car, she said it is in California and she was in London. If you bought it you would give her some sort of payment through Ebay (???) said she was somehow affiliated with them.

A new twist on scams I guess.

Watch your ebay and internet accounts. Something similar happened to me when I just inquired about a Touareg on ebay at a "to-good-to-be-true" price. The scammer somehow used my email info to mess with my ebay account and buy/sell a bunch of stuff. I ended up not costing me anything but it took a year to get the ebay account straightened out so I could access it again.:scream:
How do you know its a woman? I'd put a bet on a real address somewhere in west Africa.

She had her name listed in the CL ad. Said she was getting divorced, wasn't going to get a big percentage of the sale money so she could sell it cheap.

careful with craigslist
 

I used craigslist to list an apartment for rent locally (NY) and got many replies from doctors in UK ready to take it. Scammers abound.

Thats what I thought. The story "she" put in CL said she was getting a divorce etc. Probably a better story than I would make up it I took five minutes - but then "she" has probably been doing it longer - from Nigeria.