In February this year I was happily racking up the mileage on my 2016 E-Class, a 120 mile round trip five days a week, three hours a day in the car.

Then COVID-19 came along and whack, my annual mileage has gone from 25,000 miles to 0 miles overnight, and if I'm lucky enough to keep my job it'll be this way forever. My employer has already told me to plan to be working from home for at least the rest of this year, probably indefinitely.

Pro's and con's, I'm saving a good chunk of diesel fuel costs a month and I now have three hours of my day back Monday through Friday which means I get to spend more time with my wife and kids, the downside is that I like driving and quite enjoyed the commute, my Mercedes really excelled at comfy and sedate cruising.

Now a tough decision, what to do with the car. It literally sits on the drive doing nothing. I'm lucky enough to have access to a second vehicle, the wife's family bus (Skoda Kodiaq) so my car is surplus to requirements. It may as well go, seems a shame to have it sat there depreciating and collecting leaves.

So, it's up for sale. I appreciate not many Skoda owners are looking for used Mercs right now but if you know anyone in the market for a really clean W212 E-Class then it is being advertised on this forum in the classifieds section.

My exposure to Mercedes has been cut short unexpectedly, I do still need a car for the occasional business mileage and weekend work so will be looking to replace it, but what with is to be decided!? Having driven diesel saloons for most of my life I'm tempted to buy something I want rather than need. I took my last 8 year old Superb to almost 200,000 miles and the plan was to do the same with this one.

I wonder how many more people will find themselves in a similar situation? Keep smiling guys and girls!

 

Oh dear.

 

Guess it's one of those things life throws at us that we just have to deal with.

 

It certainly sounds like a petrol will be on the cards next time? Surely the annual mileage won't warrant a diesel?

Good to see you're still active on the forum Phil, are you still flitting between York and Germany or have you made the move overseas permanently now?

 

Seems a long time ago since you coded my HID kit on the Superb!

Yeah I've recently acquired a Skoda again, so I'm back!

 

I'm now permanently in Germany. Have been here since May 2018 now.

 

We still have our house in York that's rented out. But I haven't been back to the UK since September 2018! Hoping for a visit this year now the travel restrictions appear to have been lifted!

 

And yes I remember. I think activated the auto wipers for you too?