And so, it begins.
How does that old saying go? The longest journey starts with a single step? Well, I hope this does eventually become my longest journey with a car because I've always loved Mercedes cars and I finally have one! The catalyst was the sudden, and apparently permanent, death of my previous runaround, a 2008 VW Passat 2.0 diesel. On the way to an important (of course) appointment it suddenly just died in lane three of a main road through town. After pushing it to a position of safety on the grass verge, and whilst waiting for a recovery that would take place three hours later, I opened a car dealing app on my phone...just to window shop. One of the top results based on my applied filters was a 2011 ML 350 3.0 V6 diesel with only about 89k miles on the clock. The dealer's pictures showed it to be quite a nice tidy example, although there were a few blemishes that could be seen when zooming-in. It was definitely worth a look at least. The Passat died on Wednesday, and...