{"id":12197,"date":"2023-03-05T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:56:58","slug":"glad-i-bought-mine-when-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12197","title":{"rendered":"Glad I Bought Mine When I Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of Consumer Reports I see that Mercedes automobiles are on their shit list again in terms of reliability. There entire US lineup is rated below average reliability. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re back in the later 90s\/early 2000s again. What a shame. On the other hand when it comes to used cars the E Class from 2013 to 2019 is in their &#8220;Used Cars We Love&#8221; list for better than average reliability. Those are the W212s, which mine is&#8230;a 2012&#8230;and it was always getting top marks on reliability, but CU isn&#8217;t going back that far in time now.\u00a0I&#8217;m getting close to 180k on the odometer and the car is still a champ. But I do the maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking <em>Spirit<\/em> back out to California this spring. This time I want to try driving through a bunch of northern states bordering Canada that I&#8217;ve never been to. The big open road trip is what these diesels were made for. Hopefully I&#8217;m still up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current issue of Consumer Reports I see that Mercedes automobiles are on their shit list again in terms of reliability. There entire US lineup is rated below average reliability. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re back in the later 90s\/early 2000s again. What a shame. On the other hand when it comes to used cars the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-12197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-mercedes-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}