Category: Mercedes SL Forum

Unfortunately, I have been asked to check out with my SL from technical aspects now that country is in sight but the nicer part When buying I couldn’t take everything into account The interior is very bright (grey / beige) and now I try to set accents here an image in the original conditionhttp://www.apload.de/images-i243345bdlfyd.jpghttp://www.apload.de/images-i243346b7oazi.jpg is already a bit boring with the silver inlays or? This is done through: -door and center console and drink holder in black water pressure process transparent (in work) -button in black with black bag (still in the car must be programmed) -tacho cover Alcantara black with light grey seams(came today picture) -AMG 55 steering wheel in black leather with Alcantara (still in work) -black foot mats original Mercedes (still lying here) so I think these discreet changes will be the inside review.

Hello this morning it also caught me ABC lamp went on after 10 min. on red When reading out then came out hydraulic pumps defective I have a good workshop here that build me the ones out and I send the ones out for 350.- for overhaul(2 years warranty on it) now I wonder if it makes sense after the out and again installation immediately the 12L oil with the 3 filters for 350.- to buy that the system is flushed? has one thing to do with the other? I’m just afraid that when exchanging could get into the system and next the dampers would give me the spirit up if someone could tell me his opinion about it.

Good evening To bring some life to the booth again. I just read that someone with his R 230 wants to improve the sound ? ! with connection pipes and the like. I drive the simple R 231 350 without stickers and without uplifting. But 3 days ago I was a passenger ( back bench ) with a friend ( Koechin ) on the route Ventimiglia-Menton through the tunnel…… in eimem Maserati Quatroporte with Swiss chauffeur. The Swiss is a backward-maintaining discreet safe driver. But even he let himself to give the thing to the spores so correctly. Forget everything that has to do with uplifting. The black Maserati with brown interior has my wife ( the front beside the driver sass) even impressed the Hoellenlaerm the acceleration and the sheer size. The car is from 2010 and has around the 115,000 km. Even the first engine. The price was at that time around the 115,000 euros… genuine…. I really like my new SL, but the same size. I am still a member of the league. But I know better about the air.

Moin unfortunately I only had 04-10 this year and will now send the SL to the deep sleep next year I will certainly increase 03-11 but my question is now how I get the SL 500 well over the winter. It is in an over large carport so not directly the weather set out. I got 2 automatic chargers for the two batteries and wanted to just hang them in parallel to the batteries (without the clamp off ), that’s not a problem or? To cover I will get an indoor cover inside very soft because I have made bad experience with outdoor (fine scratches in the paint ) sowashttp://www.ebay.de/itm/350872073621?… or there are better recommendations? Cooling water… is OK and the tire pressure I will also increase is something else to consider? now and then start? thank you in advance?

Hello, just bought a SL 500, R230, year 2002. What possibilities are there to improve the V8 sound – cheap -? Car should not sound loud, but sonorous, powerful, dull. Have read about replacing the center silencers with stainless steel tubes. Where can you buy something like this, what does it cost about and how are the experiences with it? Thank you for a few tips.

Hello together – I’m new here and have a question (clear, otherwise I wouldn’t be here)… and please don’t hit it, because the topic was certainly already a thousand times. Come actually from the Porsche world and wanted to treat me to a somewhat newer one. Model 996, because predecessors and successors were too expensive. But the screwdriver of my trust talked me out successfully, because of the most serious production defects. I see the R230 as the only affordable and also attractive alternative to the Porsche. I already had a 500 year in 1993 tested (without a purchase intention, because too old and too many kilometers) and was really very enthusiastic. Now I was offered a very well-kept SL 350 from the first hand from the MB center, good equipment (only panoramic roof is missing something, but I think it is extremely nice, but you can probably also do without it), EZ 2009, 21,000 kilometers, 7G. I know the very serious predecessor, but can not speak to him at the moment ́, because I would like to have neutral answers. Long talk, short meaning: I have a lot here in the forum and elsewhere, but also about a lot of gear and some problems.

Hello everyone, can need a few tips from you and that is the following, my Sl 500 Bj. 2001 R230 has a problem with the steering, steering wheel is crooked when driving “grade off” and the vehicle pulls very strongly to the right. Can’t remember that I drove in big potholes. The vehicle is hot measured and the track was stopped. But unfortunately no improvement and workshop master said; I should be to Mercedes, ABC suspension could be. With the ABC I only have the “normal” problems, sinks after some time, but that doesn’t bother me. I’m just afraid the Mercedes says all valve units ect have to be new. All 3 pressure stores are new 2 years ago and Pentosin CHF 11S is refreshed every year at the beginning of the season with 4 liters. Thank you in advance. MfG, S.R.

Here in the forum there is already one or another thread about lowering the R230 without ABC. However, it is often about how to get the car as low as possible. With me it is rather the opposite problem. The simplest method is the installation of either H&R springs or the Eibach “Pro Kit” (also feathers. Both sets bring the car . My problem: that is too much for me. I would rather make a lowering of 1 to max. 2 cm on my car. So extremely discreet… Deswg. my question: Are there possibilities to reduce the lowering of the car ? Can one achieve something e.g. about the use of other spring plates? At the Eibach “Pro Kit” there is still the remark: Quotation: The factory-installed spring plates are available in the thicknesses 8-23 mm in DB workshops. This can vary the lowering given here. But I have also often read that this is simply not true. Any tips for me?

Hello, my 380 SL was delivered to America in 1985 with “German” engine – 204 hp, from there 4 years ago brought back by a car champion to Germany. This Mercedes-Kfz champion restored the car beautifully and sold winter 2020/21 to me with indicated mileage 92,700 KILOMETER. This summer I drove the SL for the first time more longer distances and found out that the speed is indicated in km/h, but the driven track (on km-tacho disc) counts in MEILEN, as well as the day counter. Is my assumption true that my car has run about 92000 miles, i.e. almost 150,000 KILOMETER – and I have paid almost 60,000 kilometers too much for it? (The seller – on the topic – responded to me with the reference to the TÜV and the local conversion to German papers).

Dear friends, I’m still fighting with my not always reliably running COMAND system…. (When it runs once, it runs reliably, but it doesn’t start again after switching off once)…. The Headunit and the AGW have been tested and found to be fine! Now I want to monitor the power supply during the reinstallation on the connector of the Headunit and came up with the following question(s): In addition to the LWL there are still plus, minus and the so-called Wakeup line available: 1) For what is the Wakeup line?!? or 2) which connections do I have to monitor to see if the “non-starting of the Headunit” could be due to the power supply. 3) Where is the SAM with the R230 Vormopf and what function does it have? For answers I say thank you in advance!