@kezo I thought of you when I was in a private hire Mercedes the other day, after your recent comment that you are going to leave Motability and probably buy a diesel that “will see you out”.
The car is a 10 year old E220 CDi estate which the driver bought when it was 3 years old. I last used him 2 years ago and the car had done around 300,000 miles. On Monday I was chatting to him about this and he said “look at the dash now”. The car has now done 424,000 miles. He services it himself but put it into a Mercedes main dealer for one job because “at £142 including the part it just wasn’t worth me doing it myself”. Unbelievably it’s still on the original engine and timing belt. The car drove very well on both local roads and the motorway and he’s in no rush to change it as he said it’s been worry free. This made me smile when so many Motability customers think that anything other than a brand new car every 3 years is a recipe for financial ruin 😂