So the Cayenne met it's unfortunate demise on the 24th of December and after about a month of trodding through frankly poverty or trashy 957's i decided nha lets look at W163 ML55'r or do something nice and stupid and go for a RR with a nice V8.
There was a nice final facelift 3.6L with the digital dash warra warra up at WBC in late Jan, but there was some issues, mostly related to the performance. It just felt for 700nm and 200kw a bit lazy. It has proper maintenance records behind it but before i could investiage it got sold.
Que at that stage a white one at Midstream that looked semi decent till i went to go see it. It smelled like Industria in the witer on the inside, lots and lots of little dings, a dog that ate the interior, but a one owner with verifyable service history and the performance i expected. But the price wasn't quite where i wanted it to be given some of the missed things on the "report" (read air suspenion has imminent failure, the very expensive conti's are nicked, A/C was a bit crap). Waited and waited and it came down from 245k to 239k, to 230k, to 221k, to 215k to where i finally was happy to buy it.
It is disgusting and smells disgusting, but odd. The rear entertainment headphones are still in their original baggies and the duracel batteries still in their little baggies. It's very odd, the owner lived not 5km from me, but it's giving strong deceased estate vibes. It did 3000km between 2024 and now, and half of that was driving it back from the dealer in capetown that has been servicing it the past 7 years. This was someones take the dogs to the park car.
It did a grand total from Midstream to Linden to Ellispark to Linden and then the front struts as expected kakked themselves. Getting new ones fitted today at a princely sum of 20k. And then i hope it behaves for 6 months before we have another little "fail to proceed"
Plans on it.
1. Make it less disguting on the inside
2. Detail the outside but don't fix a thing
3. Service the 6HP
4. Cut the mufflers and run it a bit more shall we say V8'ier.
There was a nice final facelift 3.6L with the digital dash warra warra up at WBC in late Jan, but there was some issues, mostly related to the performance. It just felt for 700nm and 200kw a bit lazy. It has proper maintenance records behind it but before i could investiage it got sold.
Que at that stage a white one at Midstream that looked semi decent till i went to go see it. It smelled like Industria in the witer on the inside, lots and lots of little dings, a dog that ate the interior, but a one owner with verifyable service history and the performance i expected. But the price wasn't quite where i wanted it to be given some of the missed things on the "report" (read air suspenion has imminent failure, the very expensive conti's are nicked, A/C was a bit crap). Waited and waited and it came down from 245k to 239k, to 230k, to 221k, to 215k to where i finally was happy to buy it.
It is disgusting and smells disgusting, but odd. The rear entertainment headphones are still in their original baggies and the duracel batteries still in their little baggies. It's very odd, the owner lived not 5km from me, but it's giving strong deceased estate vibes. It did 3000km between 2024 and now, and half of that was driving it back from the dealer in capetown that has been servicing it the past 7 years. This was someones take the dogs to the park car.
It did a grand total from Midstream to Linden to Ellispark to Linden and then the front struts as expected kakked themselves. Getting new ones fitted today at a princely sum of 20k. And then i hope it behaves for 6 months before we have another little "fail to proceed"
Plans on it.
1. Make it less disguting on the inside
2. Detail the outside but don't fix a thing
3. Service the 6HP
4. Cut the mufflers and run it a bit more shall we say V8'ier.
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I was watching the price come down on this, you should be able to find replacement interior bits fairly easily from the breakers. I love the white on white spec!
