2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class prices under £5,000

There are 76 used 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class cars for sale under £5,000 from UK dealers on AskCar, as of 9 November 2026. Typical asking price £4,300 (the median: half cost less, half cost more). The cheapest is £1,750. The middle half are priced between £3,700 and £4,600. Median mileage: about 102,000 miles.

Dealers lowered the asking price on more than one in five of 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class cars under £5,000: 17 of the 76 in the 14 days to 9 November 2026.

AskCar lists 4,764 used Mercedes-Benz C Class across the UK, from 2,319 dealerships.

As of 9 November 2026, AskCar lists 584,619 cars and vans from 12,676 UK dealerships, read daily from dealer websites: over 99% of UK dealer used car adverts. No dealer pays to be listed.

2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class cars for sale now under £5,000, page 1 of 2

This page picks out up to 10 cars in each of these groups: best value, cheapest, lowest mileage, recently reduced and newly advertised. A car in more than one group is listed in full once. The groups pick only from cars with photos and an AskCar estimate, priced at £500 or more and no more than 25% under that estimate. 65 of the 68 cars listed here meet these rules. Page 2 lists every other 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class car, cheapest first, including the 3 the groups do not pick from.

The AskCar estimate is our expected asking price for that one car, from its model, age, mileage and specification, using the 4,524 priced Mercedes-Benz C Class adverts on AskCar as of 9 November 2026. The figures on this page describe the cars advertised, not a valuation of every 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class.

Each car: year, make, model, engine and trim, power, gearbox, fuel, body, doors, colour; mileage; price and its changes; how the price compares with the AskCar estimate; emissions standard and ULEZ compliance where it holds; MOT; dealer and town; AskCar page. Each car's AskCar page has its full price history and cheaper cars like it.

This list leaves out 8 cars whose advertised mileage is lower than the mileage recorded at their last MOT test.

Best value 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class: priced furthest below the AskCar estimate

These 10 are priced 14% to 22% under their AskCar estimate. Their asking prices run from £2,125 to £4,995.

Cheapest 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class: the lowest asking prices

These 10 are priced £2,125 to £3,490. They have covered 92,885 to 182,890 miles.

Lowest-mileage 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class

These 10 have covered 61,986 to 91,000 miles. Their asking prices run from £4,000 to £4,995.

Recently reduced 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class: the biggest price reductions in the 14 days to 9 November 2026

The dealer lowered the asking price on each of these 10 in the 14 days to 9 November 2026. Their reductions since AskCar first saw them run from £400 to £1,600.

Newly advertised 2012 Mercedes-Benz C Class: first seen by AskCar in the 7 days to 9 November 2026

These 5 are the most recently advertised. Cars first seen on the same day are listed cheapest first.

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