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Originally Posted by jcyuhn
He's not dumb. The R320 was a demonstrator. He had them CPO it and bought out the warranty so it came with 7.5 years of warranty coverage. Likely replace after the warranty expires as 8 years of 20K+ miles/year of kid duty pretty much wears out any car.
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It's hard to predict the 'tipping-point,' making warranty (CPO) clearly more advantageous, versus a less expensive non-CPO, IMO.
Example; Friends of mine bought the identical new car ('99 E300TD) I did in 1999, but bought the 7-year, 100K mile warranty for something like $1,200.00 +/- more out-of-pocket as I recall.
While their car necessitated more warranty work than mine, I attribute that extra work done as MB dealer trumping-up work on the car to get MBUSA warranty credit-$s. Their (my friend's E300) needed a computer board parts replaced to the tune of $7K. Now, I ask you......who ever heard of a '99 E300 needing a $7K computer board/parts replaced? I haven't. Not here anyway, in all the '99 E300 disasters I've been reading about now becoming more numerous in the past few months. As I've written here before; I have long suspected that an MB dealer will do warranty work that is unecessary on cars just because they can get away with it collecting the credits/$s, from the manufacturer.
-As you know, Jim, I'm wrestling with that CPO or no, right now while shopping for a used MB E320 Bluetec.