AMG C63, 2010, 1000km for $56K !

F6E · 09-02-2012, 04:47 PM

but there is a catch, stat write off so can never be re registered,

but what an awesome club racer/ track hack ?

http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/mercedes-c63-2010-12095821?cr=59&distance=25&vertical=Car&eapi=2&Pag e=4&sort=Price&__N=1216%201246%201247%201252%20128 2%201090%204294815925&silo=Stock&Range=Price:Min,M ax

Cheese3 · 09-02-2012, 04:52 PM

Haha thats crazy, I looked them up this morning and notice it too. Tempting to buy it and then buy a cheap merc same colour registered and put the plates on the amg and drive it anyway.
The 07 clk63 coupes are down to 80k only....... Haha

Smoke Pursuit · 09-02-2012, 04:55 PM

Buy a Second hand 2007 C200 for 32 kay and do a swap... Id imagine he bought it a fair bit cheaper then 56 kay too!

FPVGT500 · 09-02-2012, 05:41 PM

Do a number job hahahaha lol

Iggypoppin' · 09-02-2012, 05:46 PM

Track car for sure. Would never attempt a plate job on this let alone any car!

**DJM83** · 09-02-2012, 05:49 PM

I wonder if that donk would fit in my XR5

duaned · 09-02-2012, 05:51 PM

Stefan · 09-02-2012, 09:24 PM

Full driveline and suspension transplant into an XA/XB Hardtop...

flappist · 09-02-2012, 09:37 PM

Last time I looked New Zealand was not part of Australia. Where are our kiwi contingunt......

ZH For Me · 09-02-2012, 09:44 PM

I can't help but wonder why it was made a statutory write-off, based on what has been stated is wrong with the car... Repairable write-off perhaps, but statutory? Call me crazy, deluded or a complete moron, but this doesn't seem to add up. Unless I'm missing something here?

. I'm more than happy to be set straight about this if I'm wrong, just personally wondering.

But yes, that WOULD be an awesome track car.

z80 · 09-02-2012, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ZH For Me

I can't help but wonder why it was made a statutory write-off, based on what has been stated is wrong with the car... Repairable write-off perhaps, but statutory? Call me crazy, deluded or a complete moron, but this doesn't seem to add up. Unless I'm missing something here?

. I'm more than happy to be set straight about this if I'm wrong, just personally wondering.

But yes, that WOULD be an awesome track car.

It's a new NSW policy.

In other states the car would already be in my driveway.

But...the VIN is flagged Aus wide...cannot be put back on the road.

there was one at Pickles Melbourne hail damaged last year...sold for 40k and itv was able to be registered after a VIV...so this guy is looking to make a few bucks for sure.

2011G6E · 09-02-2012, 09:53 PM

You'd be surprised at how little damage needs to be done to a car to make it a statutory write off, as opposed to a plain old "write off", a visibly buggered wreck that's been driven into a tree or something.
A couple of years back when a big hailstorm went through Blackwater 20km away from here, car transporters ran hot and cold for a couple of weeks with write offs damaged by the massive hail. One fellow train driver had a twin cab Hilux, only six months old or so, and it had been under a carport. The damage from hail was restricted to a few dings on the rear right hand side of the body, and a broken rear drivers side door window from a ricochet off a wall, plus some smaller dings in the rear drivers side door. We said he was lucky, but a few days later we saw it go past on a transporter. He said the insurance assessor was making it a "statutory write off"...he didn't really care, as it was a lease car and they gave him a new one, but still...

No wonder we pay so damn much for insurance...

MercuryT · 09-02-2012, 09:59 PM

The person selling it hates a full stop or comma! Doesnt sound like a wealthy person to me. Hence I think how that was written suggest this AMG is dodgy with a capital D!!

ps: Love these cars mind you - awesome sound.

pps: "Little water in cabin" - please.....ha ha

Nikked · 09-02-2012, 10:06 PM

Bit of mis-infomation here...

I can be re-registered, there are a few avenues you can go down...

SteveJH · 09-02-2012, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikked

Bit of mis-infomation here...

I can be re-registered, there are a few avenues you can go down...

Not in nsw though at the very least as far as I am aware. Possibly in another state though?

Danny · 09-02-2012, 10:28 PM

"Due to a little bit of water in the carpet the insurance company made it a stat write off, thats all."

Wow, better not drop a drink in your car then...

Nikked · 09-02-2012, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveJH

Not in nsw though at the very least as far as I am aware. Possibly in another state though?

RTA allows re-registration of written off cars, as long as you have a Certificate of Compliance, RTA also has a list of exemptions...

The new laws arn't the doom and gloom they were made out to be...just made it near on impossible for dodgy cut and shuts and re berthing to be done...

Fev · 10-02-2012, 02:10 PM

I know where that shop is. I seem to recall something dodgy by that company a fair while back

F6E · 10-02-2012, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MercuryT

"Little water in cabin" - please.....ha ha

Meh... it'll dry out

FPVGT500 · 10-02-2012, 06:27 PM

Water damage + Electrics in a Merc = Disaster......

Bossxr8 · 10-02-2012, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by FPVGT500

Water damage + Electrics in a Merc = Disaster......

This^^^^^^^

You wouldn't touch a water damaged Merc with a barge pole, complexity, wide suite of high tech electrical gizmos and unbelieveable repair costs would be a minefield. Water in the wiring looms would be a nightmare to fix if you could even work out what the problem is in the first place.

midnightXR6 · 11-02-2012, 06:16 PM

Thats bloody steep.

I paid 39k for my 08 C63 and its on the road. Albeit not OZ

Cheese3 · 11-02-2012, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by midnightXR6

Thats bloody steep.

I paid 39k for my 08 C63 and its on the road. Albeit not OZ

Ok, settle down. You dont need to rub it in how cheap these awesome machines are in the Uk, and how much we get ripped. :P

Stefan · 11-02-2012, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikked

The new laws arn't the doom and gloom they were made out to be...just made it near on impossible for dodgy cut and shuts and re berthing to be done...

This is it, you'd be pretty p!ssed if you paid $140K for this second hand and found out it was underwater and basically just got aired out a bit.

I'd say the stricter the better it protects us from ending up with some dodgy repaired car.

Nikked · 12-02-2012, 10:25 AM

Naww, i wanted to see some fisticuffs...

Buy merc, install Roush 427 + twin turbos...

Was in der Hölle das ... amerikanischer Motor im Mercedes nicht sein kann!

dylancox · 12-02-2012, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by midnightXR6

Thats bloody steep.

I paid 39k for my 08 C63 and its on the road. Albeit not OZ

Is that in 39K in AUD? At that price it would almost be worth it to go there, buy a C63, remove everything that makes it a C63 and ship the parts back to OZ to be installed into a stock C200.. then sell all the C200's stock parts off

flappist · 12-02-2012, 12:25 PM

Keep it on topic and civil please.

z80 · 12-02-2012, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by midnightXR6

Thats bloody steep.

I paid 39k for my 08 C63 and its on the road. Albeit not OZ

That would be pounds sterling wouldn't it?

midnightXR6 · 12-02-2012, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by z80

That would be pounds sterling wouldn't it?

No 39K AUD in old money it was £26k GBP

smoo · 12-02-2012, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by flappist

Last time I looked New Zealand was not part of Australia. Where are our kiwi contingunt......

By the time you buy it (at current exchange rate), ship it, register it on our roads, you be better off spending ~100 kiwi grand and buying one sold new here, with balance of new car warranty...

or just buy a new 5.0 s/c gtp