I am wondering if i should buy this now or wait. Aren't convertables cheaper in the winter. Also R8 the R129 Sl500 (and 300)
Go or No: SL500
Isaiah Brooks
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Connor Anderson
R129 is goat, too bad the wiring harness likes to dissolve
Get a 600 or you're a pussy
Jacob Hughes
1992 to 1995 models are the ones affected by the bio-harness
They're well built cars, but expensive to keep
Kevin Hernandez
thats why i said sl500 not 500sl
Hunter Carter
My mind is telling me nooooo (because repair cost)
But my body.....my body is telling me yeaaaaahhh (because it makes me erect)
Brody Lewis
Its a daily driver so i need muh mpg's. the 500 is literally 1 mpg worse than the 320 or 300
Xavier Flores
i hear the repairs are as easy as murican stuff if you do it yourself
Blake Nelson
I was searching far and wide for an R129 a month ago. Couldnt find one that wasn't torn to shit or a bad year with a crumbling harness.
Beautiful car, Very "Initial D" looking. Like a late model C4 corvette and an R32 mixed together.
I read enough to learn that its not safe enough to go by "1992-1996" were the problem years because I've read so many different opinions. I finally read a site about mercedes that listed literally hundreds of reports of 90's mercedes catastrophically failing due to electrical issues.
Want one, but am too afraid.
Robert Ramirez
>Initial D
wut
Lucas Thomas
These cars have:
An oil cooler that's in the cylinder vee that leaks and requires you to remove the heads to replace.
Tons of tubing underneath the intake that cracks.
Two gigantic coils each the length of the engine and 24 spark plugs.
You've been warned.
Nolan Jones
Dont say that you expect me to assume that everyone here will know the difference, and that they're using both "SL500" and "500SL" to refer to all R129s of all years?
I could go for an SL73 myself
Chase Allen
out of the few made i am lucky to see one in person. Some foreman for some new houses on my block
Zachary Thompson
>7l engine
>in europe
that was so fucking obscene.
completely unthinkable now and will also never ever return.
Mason Miller
I've seen and ridden in a SL60, thats the biggest of those I've tried. Never seen anything bigger in person
Very same engine Pagani has been using for the longest time
Camden Young
98 SL500 for sale in my town
tell me why not to go for it
Liam Jackson
because you don't have the finances to sustain it.
it's just that simple.
Adrian Myers
What are you talking about faggot? You just sayin " u aint got da muneee..." doesn't mean anything. I read about people spending a few thousand a year on the V12 models going to dealerships for work.
Nathan Wright
If you can afford two then buy one.
Gabriel Stewart
Because I answered the reasons.
If you have running problems, you'll need to buy 24 double plat spark plugs. You'll need to spend a couple hundred... on spark plugs.
If you get a major oil leak, you'll need to do cylinder heads.
They have four exhaust manifolds, and the nuts isn't captured, so you have to have someone be on top of the vehicle while it's in the air holding it in place while someone else catches the bolt through from below.
These're common issues. I'd know, I've repaired them.
You ready to spend like $3k -$5k on a car to fix an oil leak?
If you are, then sure, buy one.
Nicholas Garcia
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wow s o ex pensive...
I'm not paying anyone 5 grand to unbolt some cylinder heads you fucking fruit
Asher Ward
The SL500 is the v8 not the v12
Aaron Cook
what about the sl320 mr.tripfag
Eli King
he's a fucking retard and a liar tripfag
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doing plugs AND wires literally not anymore expensive than a regular shitbox
Angel Evans
It's really not that bad any more imo, but with any car at that age random uncommon stuff can always go wrong
Seals and gaskets especially. Anything rubber is bound to fail.
Anthony Miller
yeah, i know. Thats why you are in this thread user