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[05omegav6]

Pads for mine are £57+vat each end... Discs are £37 each... Both regardless of disc size...

Which is nice

[Jimbob]

regas is free cos they know they will recover likely 99-100% of the gas

You do it, you will lose the lot, unless you have a mate with the kit.

[tunnie]

Pads for mine are £57+vat each end... Discs are £37 each... Both regardless of disc size...

Which is nice

For the Merc?

regas is free cos they know they will recover likely 99-100% of the gas

You do it, you will lose the lot, unless you have a mate with the kit.

Back to the dealer then

[05omegav6]

Aye

Mine currently has 300x10 unvented rear discs and 296x28 vented fronts, but 350cdi and sports pack cars have 300x20 vented rears and 322x32 fronts (either drilled or not)... so on the rummage for some calipers to upgrade mine

[tunnie]

Was that trade or retail price?

[05omegav6]

Retail

[tunnie]

Blimey that's good 

[05omegav6]

Must confess, I misread the piece of paper, discs are £57 each, not £37 but even so not unreasonable IMHO

[tunnie]

Must confess, I misread the piece of paper, discs are £57 each, not £37 but even so not unreasonable IMHO

That is still not bad for Merc. Bet Ford are similar and BuMW more!

[Marks DTM Calib]

There not very big discs though so about right I would say. 

Remember that Merc dont make braking systems so its the brake manaufacturers price plus merc markup.

The mum bus has bigger front discs lol and they were about 40 quid each (Bosch).

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

So dropped it off today, confirmed gas and service and diagnostic for £59.

What did I see in the forecourt? A red VXR8  apparently the owner traded it in for a black one. I hear black ones are faster 

Asked to have a sit, I had a good nose over it. Not really had a chance to get up and close to one.

The size of the brake pads  - Very meaty, looked dead easy to change, too.

So first impressions? It was a '07 so first generation, manual, cloth seats.

The seats were fantastic, really, really comfy, straight away felt comfy. Nice driving position, dash layout all very nice.

Good space in the back too, the boot was very good. Nice and big for a LPG tank  Looked a little shallow compared to Omega, but defo room for a tank.

£15k, '07, 49k Miles.

Next I wondered over to an Insignia Elite, lots of toys, memory seats ect. But no matter how much seat fiddling, still not getting comfy 

You could buy a brace of '07' CLS 500's for the same money. ...which cost close to £70,000 when new.

[henryd]

So dropped it off today, confirmed gas and service and diagnostic for £59.

What did I see in the forecourt? A red VXR8  apparently the owner traded it in for a black one. I hear black ones are faster 

Asked to have a sit, I had a good nose over it. Not really had a chance to get up and close to one.

The size of the brake pads  - Very meaty, looked dead easy to change, too.

So first impressions? It was a '07 so first generation, manual, cloth seats.

The seats were fantastic, really, really comfy, straight away felt comfy. Nice driving position, dash layout all very nice.

Good space in the back too, the boot was very good. Nice and big for a LPG tank  Looked a little shallow compared to Omega, but defo room for a tank.

£15k, '07, 49k Miles.

Next I wondered over to an Insignia Elite, lots of toys, memory seats ect. But no matter how much seat fiddling, still not getting comfy 

You could buy a brace of '07' CLS 500's for the same money. ...which cost close to £70,000 when new.

I'm sure someone on here bought one of them for handy money