Mercedes e240 als tweede auto - op zoek naar tips en adviezen

Goede dag allen,

Op dit moment is mijn daily driver een mercedes 190 uit 1983. Op dit moment heeft de auto 147000km op de teller en geniet ik er vol van. Echter, ben ik op zoek naar iets waarmee ik wat comfortabeler langere ritten kan maken en iets waarmee ik in de winter kan rijden.

Ik ben in mijn zoektocht uitgekomen op de mercedes e240 van de jaren 2003 en 2005. De v6 heeft een enorm sterke reputatie en de auto's kunnen prima meer dan 4ton kilometers maken. Een garagehouder rijdt er zelf ook in; hij heeft de auto gekocht met 150k op de teller en raakt nu bijna de halve miljoen aan.

Waar ik naar op zoek ben is het volgende:
- kilometerstand maakt mij niet heel veel uit, maar ik wil er ook maar maximaal vijf duizend aan uitgeven. Dit geeft mij een kilometer stand limiet van grofweg 180k ( als minimale voor dag budget )
- moet NAP pas hebben
- moet onderhoudsgeschiedenis hebben
- ziet er van binnen en buiten netjes uit.
- minimale roest

Nou is mijn vraagt als volgt: heeft iemand ervaring met het aanschaffen en bezitten van deze auto? Wat zijn de dingen waar ik op moet letten bij aanschaf? Wat zijn de kosten die ik kan verwachten qua onderhoud? De auto gaat mogelijk op de zaak in een paar jaar dus wegenbelasting is al mooi meegenomen. Zijn er redenen om ver weg te blijven van deze auto?

Bedankt voor het lezen en alvast bedankt voor de reacties.

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u/redvox27 — 3 days ago

Week 3 of my second tank

Hey all,

I just wanted to share my second aquarium tank, which had some ups and downs!

I really wanted to have an underwater waterfall so I watched some DIY videos on YouTube and tried some systems. 3 of those failed.

The first setup failed because I didn't understand how the suction works. I have a simple air pump with a double tube setup, of which I am only using one. The thing was that I set it up in such a way that the stones/sand would flow with the stream from the bottom to the top. This didn't work.

Then I discovered that you need to put the air tube from the top to bottom. But I also misunderstood that and the air just came out of the wrong hole.

Only after some experimentation on my end I discovered that you can create some vortex by letting the air come from the top, and have the tube of air barely touch the floor. This causes a fortex that sucks the water in and then up to the end ( instead of pushes it out )

I'm not sure if this makes sense. I'm sorry if it doesn't.

Now I am waiting for the cycle to finish and then add some shrimps so thet can enjoy the alge. Not sure how, but I discovered some snails in my tank which I am keeping.

I am looking for some background plant suggestions and maybe some plants I can attach to the "mountain"

Thanks for reading, cheers!

Edit: I forgot to mention that I also switched to finer sand so the output is more explosive, especially when I turn the pump to it's max setting.

u/redvox27 — 20 days ago

Tips for cleaning door cards

Hello everyone,

I recently bought these doorcards after 6 months of searching for the matching ones. They are however, slightly moldy on the leather parts. What would the best way to clean this?

u/redvox27 — 21 days ago
▲ 3 r/bigseo

Organic search completely flat after june 15

Hi guys, I need your input.

Around 2 months ago, I launched my website in the dutch car niche. It scrapes car listings from the internet ( of the dutch car market ) and aggregates them into pricing pages per car + model + year. I started out with roughly 400-1000 pages, and it organically grew to 10k pages for both dutch and english translated pages ( so in total around 20k pages ).

I am running a programmatic seo setup where my db entries are the datasources of the templated pages. Each page page simply answers one single question ( with some extra information ) "what is the current market price of this car?" thats it.

The thing is: my amount of indexed pages keep on increasing, but the organic impressions fell completely flat after june 15 and haven't recovered since.
- impression on launch 25 may: 1
- impression on June 2: 73
- impressions on june 15: 444
- average impressions after june 15: 25

now one thing to mention: i did happen to have a viral reddit launch post which really bumped up the numbers temporarily to 1800 on a single day, dropping back to 417 two days later. That drop back to normal was at june 14.

What is going wrong here? Is my site marked as spam, or is this a result of simply me having a new domain?

Im not sure if I can share my website so you guys can check it out. Google Search console image in the comments.

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u/redvox27 — 1 month ago
▲ 6 r/seogrowth+1 crossposts

Organic search completely flat after june 15

Hi guys, I need your input.

Around 2 months ago, I launched my website in the dutch car niche. It scrapes car listings from the internet ( of the dutch car market ) and aggregates them into pricing pages per car + model + year. I started out with roughly 400-1000 pages, and it organically grew to 10k pages for both dutch and english translated pages ( so in total around 20k pages ).

I am running a programmatic seo setup where my db entries are the datasources of the templated pages. Each page page simply answers one single question ( with some extra information ) "what is the current market price of this car?" thats it.

The thing is: my amount of indexed pages keep on increasing, but the organic impressions fell completely flat after june 15 and haven't recovered since.
- impression on launch 25 may: 1
- impression on June 2: 73
- impressions on june 15: 444
- average impressions after june 15: 25

now one thing to mention: i did happen to have a viral reddit launch post which really bumped up the numbers temporarily to 1800 on a single day, dropping back to 417 two days later. That drop back to normal was at june 14.

What is going wrong here? Is my site marked as spam, or is this a result of simply me having a new domain?

Im not sure if I can share my website so you guys can check it out. Google Search console image in the comments.

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u/redvox27 — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/SEO

I made a graph of my website because I kept getting lost in the sauce

Hello everyone

I have a website in the dutch car niche, that dynamically created long tailed content based on templates and database entries. The website is for the dutch market but I do support english translations, which means that I have easily over 20k pages of content.

Now since I am learning SEO, I have discovered that people recommend pillar/hub pages that can aggregate links that allows the user to explore deeper into the abyss of your website. But Since I have implemented multiple strategies, I have lost track, so i've decided to create something that dynamically understands the pages and clusters of my website and displays it as a graph. This was incredibly insightful; I've discovered for example, that my static clusters were completely orphaned from the core cluster. Since I thought it was kinda funny and quirky: i've also decided to make it a public endpoint so that people can traverse my site in a silly and quirky way. Please see comments for the graph

Now I can actually visibly track and debug the strategies that I am implementing. I am also curious about other strategies on how to keep track on their strategies and implementations.

The tech stack is as follows:

Backend: Python FastAPI

Frontend: Jinja templates in combination with htmx

Styling: simple tailwind and Daisy-ui

Graph: made with SigmaJS

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u/redvox27 — 1 month ago

I made a graph of my website because I kept getting lost in the sauce

https://preview.redd.it/s6q5uhk0wrch1.png?width=1907&format=png&auto=webp&s=089e6a3d07f240945f9419593a6ad2f09cde172d

Hello everyone

I have a website in the dutch car niche, that dynamically created long tailed content based on templates and database entries. The website is for the dutch market but I do support english translations, which means that I have easily over 20k pages of content.

Now since I am learning SEO, I have discovered that people recommend pillar/hub pages that can aggregate links that allows the user to explore deeper into the abyss of your website. But Since I have implemented multiple strategies, I have lost track, so i've decided to create something that dynamically understands the pages and clusters of my website and displays it as a graph. This was incredibly insightful; I've discovered for example, that my static clusters were completely orphaned from the core cluster. Since I thought it was kinda funny and quirky: i've also decided to make it a public endpoint so that people can traverse my site in a silly and quirky way. I am not sure if posting links are allowed so please let me know mods, if that is possible, and then i'll post the link in the comments.

Now I can actually visibly track and debug the strategies that I am implementing. I am also curious about other strategies on how to keep track on their strategies and implementations.

The tech stack is as follows:
Backend: Python FastAPI
Frontend: Jinja templates in combination with htmx
Styling: simple tailwind and Daisy-ui
Graph: made with SigmaJS

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u/redvox27 — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/SEO

I just discovered a bug in my code - reason for low ranking?

Hello guys,

I've been a lurker for a while and with the help of you all, I was able to understand keyword research more and more. My strategy is simple: create a hyper long tailed website that only does one thing and it does it well : it answers the question "what is this particular car of this specific year currently worth on the market?"

Now the issue I've discovered ( and i feel silly i never checked ) is that my templating had a bug, that didn't set the proper titles and description tags in the header of the pages. Lets say someone is looking for a Volkwagen Polo 1.2 from 2015. Then the title should've been something like: "2015 Volkwagen Polo second hand price and market value". Description was more descriptive. Instead, it was simply the default ( the bug ), which is the name of my website.

I launched a month ago, and I just discovered it so I feel like a little dumb dumb. The question here is: is this one of the reason why my rankings are so relatively low, even when I am going for hyper specific long tail content?

( I realise its also due to the young domain, and no backlinks )

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u/redvox27 — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/aiGrunn+1 crossposts

I've reviewed new SaaS vibe-projects - This needs to be said

Hello fellow vibers,

I've picked up a new hobby recently: reviewing new SaaS projects. They just all happened to be vibe-coded projects, which is awesome! More people have the ability to create something out of nothing, which in theory should increase the likelyhood that something amazing will pupup. And we do see some examples: one of my favorite projects is a vibe coded game made with ClaudCode that is also played and streamed by a Claude agent. The project I have seen however, arent't nowhere near that ballpark of being cool.

Here's the thing: people build shit. Thats good! Then they publish it, which is great. How else would you get feedback right? But this is what needs to be said: you cannot expect people to pay for your stuff if the site or app you made in a weekend completely sucks!

This is what I have observed so far:
- Generic homepages with ai generated texts that are bloated with buzzwords. In the worst cases, you cannot even tell what the service or site is about
- Bad UI: not just "oh this looks like ai" ( truly, some of the older websites now look like "ai" ). No not that. I am talking about visual clutter to the point where the main content isn't readable, nor scannable. Style over function ( and badly executed )
- Ideas that I have seen popping up ten times in the past week. ( for some reason everyone has a performance tracking app )
- Pages for the sake of having pages: Not every small piece of statistic needs to be in a different screen. That is just bad ux. Group statistics, words, w/e where it makes sense, and strip nonesense data if it doesn't fit the theme of the page.
- Fake testimonials: Bro, your website is one day old. Strip the 100 fake reviews, people notice

There are more issues, but these are the most common themes. One guy didn't even bother to make a normal homepage, but it did have a pricing page! It is a nice feeling to create something out of nothing but you cannot expect people to pay for your shit if you didn't even bother to do the simplest form of polishing. Most of these apps look like they were made in 2 days ( or 1 week if you're not so skilled ), and worse: they look like someone 1shotted a design, looked at it, and thought "yep, that will do".

Its a great thing that the barrier of entry to the software field is lowered. But there are too many fake promises around SaaS being dead because everyone and their mum will create their own product, or cannibalisation will take over in different niches. Based on what i've seen, that simply doesn't seem true.

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u/redvox27 — 2 months ago
▲ 13 r/SEO

Help with keyword research + strategies

Hi guys, I am new in the field of SEO. My background is software engineering, conversion rate optimisation, and UX-design, so I have a decent idea of how to make a site and optimize a site on a technical level. However, there is a thing I do not understand yet: keyword research.

So some background: A month ago, I launched my dutch site which is in the car niche. It scrapes the internet for current car listings in the Netherlands, and indexes those listings so I create seo-optimised pages for the combination of brand + model +year. This means that each car variant currently available on the dutch market is a database entry, which in return is its own optimised page. They all answer a single question: "what is the current market value of this car+model of that year?"

The design works as intended which is awesome. Some stats:
- launched on May 25 2026
- due to a lucky viral post, and some social media posts afterwards, I received 5500 visitors
- my sitemap on the google search console tells me that Google almost found 10k pages
- almost 6k of my pages are indexed

So now i have a design that works, but I struggle to understand how to proceed beyond this. I am lurking lots of posts, and keyword research is the biggest common theme. But the thing is: what does this even mean?

I am aware of some open source + pay as you go tools, like OpenSEO + DataForSEO. I want to do my research with an as low of a cost as possible, and scale the moment I make more money with the website. So even with this, I know where to get my data from. But what then? How would I do keyword research? I am not specifically looking for a playbook of a strategy perse, I am more looking for some guidelines or starting points, and to understand the bigger picture of keyword research.

Thanks for reading :D

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u/redvox27 — 2 months ago
▲ 6 r/AppBusiness+2 crossposts

My first real success with one of my projects - Here is my surprising conclusion

Hello guys,

5 days ago I launched keuro.nl, a market price checker for the dutch car market. The idea is really simple: All I want to know is to answer the question "what is the current market value of this particular car with these specific options?". Surprisingly enough, there wasn't anything like this in the Netherlands that would properly address this question directly. So I took my Claude 4.7 and went coding.

I setup each car scan page so that it would answer that one question directly, which made it perfect for SEO also. So I took all the SEO knowledge I had and tried to optimize the pages. Not only that, but if I dont have a requested combination in my database, I'll scrape the data which generates me more pages over time. Basically every database entry is a seo optimized page. I started out with roughly 400, and just 5 days later, I am at roughly 9 thousand pages. I had almost 800 visitors in the past 5 days and those visitors got me roughly 2500 page visits in total.

Now this is a completely free service so you won't get flashy MRR screenshots from me. But I just absolutely loveee seeing a design I had in my head just a couple of weeks ago working according to its design. Ofcourse, I got lucky and struck a viral Reddit post by posting it in a dutch niche subreddit, where the mods even made it the pinned post of that sub. This really kickstarted the train.

I guess I really scratched an itch here. I am also working on another project that really evolved over time ( since September 2025 ) and all my posts collectively got me probably over 100k views already and the feedback has been increasingly positive. But it doesn't really stick the way Keuro.nl does. Maybe my execution was better here. But I honestly feel like I didn't do anything that much different than from my other project:
- Launch mvp
- Post about it
- Hope post gets at least some eye balls which in return could give me feedback
- Implement feedback, iterate, and ask for feedback again.
- Both launches were completely free from the start to keep the feedback loop rolling.

In both cases, response has been really positive. My best guess is that I simply scratched a bigger gap in the market and a bigger itch. It feels kinda random and lucky on my side to be honest. Curious about you guy's experience.

u/redvox27 — 3 months ago

I created a market price checker for the Dutch car market - sorry dear english readers

Hi guys,

I made keuro.nl, the car market retail price checker for the Dutch car market. The goal is to remove the anxiety people experience when researching the cars that they want to purchase, or the one they like to sell. Especially for the buying side, it isn't really clear what the retail prices are unless you do proper research on a autoscout24 or gaspedaal ( in simple terms: a market place for car ads )

For most of the people, including myself, I cant tell whether I am overpaying for a car, or whether the garages are trying to lowball me when I want to trade in a car. Keuro.nl allows you to get straight answers for this.

Couple of fun quirks: you'd notice the topdeals ( good deals ) for some car ads. This is calculated by deviding all the prices into different brackets, while doing the same for the mileages. If a car has a good price in its mileage bracket, then its a good deal. This way, we avoid labeling older cars as good deals by definitions.

I did notice during the demo that the english translator isn't working properly so I am sorry to my dear english readers, but hopefully I made the goal clear :D.

Stack is simple:
- Claude Code Opus 4.7 for coding agent
- Domain Driven Design and Clean architecture principles to keep the codebase clean
- Python Starlette for backend
- Htmx + Jinja templates for frontend
- Tailwind + DaisyUi for styling

u/redvox27 — 3 months ago

Why does my gas-o-meter parties like it's Friday?

Basically title and video. Whenever I'm driving or just starting the car the gass-o-meter is jumping left and right all the time.

It used to be more subtle but it is getting worse. Something I can fix myself as a noob?

u/redvox27 — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/buildinpublic+1 crossposts

How data helps me with creating new features

Hello everybody,

I am here to share happycharts, the trading simulator app that helps to aim to teach people how to trade before they lose all their money in the markets.

I have a backlog full with tickets and features based on what I think should be implemented and could be helpful to the trading community. However, sometimes it is hard to determine what the focus really should be. In order to combat that, I have a voting mechanism at the end of the tournament ( each player can create tournaments in which they play multiple trading rounds. What you see on the video were examples of trading rounds within a single tournament ).

One of the highly requested features was to practise specific trading patterns. And now its finally here. A nice big data driven milestone. Happy to hear some feedback :D

u/redvox27 — 3 months ago

Good day everyone,

First of all, I want to thank everyone for supporting my last post regarding happycharts, the trading simulator app, that aims to help people to learn how to trade in a fun and efficient way. You guys gave me cool feedback here on Reddit, and your feature votes on the platform really helped me moving forward. So big thanks to you guys!

Today I'd like to share the newest, and most requested features that people were requesting. The two most asked features in the past month were:
- more trading indicators
- real time mode
- honorable mention for the trading dashboard.

First lets talk indicators: in the previous patch, you could unlock indicators by either playing and paying with happypoints, or get happypoints directly. The data showed that this was bad design - people still wanted the indicators but didn't want to purchase them ( not even with their freely received HappyPoints ). So I opened the gates completely and now all the indicators, themes, and dashboard functions are free from the gate. There is now an unlimited time, limited use free trial instead. So I hope this helps people enjoy the platform more right from the start and get the full experience while testing the waters.

The biggest request was the newly added real time mode which is showcased in the post video. The candles are ticked on the screen, and you can make as many trades as you like. This will hopefully mimic the real trading experience more, especially for those who prefer the intraday timeframes.

The trading dashboard is now also open for everyone right from the start. and I've lowered the amount of trades required to see your platform rankings ( from 25 to 10 ).

Couple of tips for real time mode and some ux boosts:
- You can pause/play the chart by pressing the space bar
- You can reset the chart position to lock and trace the new candles when you double click the chart
- You can reset the pricing scale by double clicking the price-axis.

Thanks for reading my update, and have a great day everyone.

u/redvox27 — 4 months ago