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Hello in the round, I wanted to look around, how high is the SLK driver here at ‘uch’, who drive the car all year round. Starting position with us is the following: The C of my friend now has 160000 km on the clock and stands so really well there, but can also get away sometime if he wants something nice new. My C now has 100000 on the clock and should probably stay ‘longer’, until next year perhaps. Depending on. Mine is a station wagon, so we would still have a ‘big’ Au To. And we are only two. Actually, a sunny dream of us was to buy a SLK as a third car in the price league around 20-25000, and to use it then classically only with season marks. But now we also liked an almost new SLK which clearly exceeds the budget for a third car and should cost 33800, but the seller at MB offered us the payment of the C of my friend known to them. A test drive in this weather would be possible, but I guess it’s just gnashing my teeth, like I was listening to the salesman, and we, again, don’t want to buy on the phone, like the Lord would like it to be. It’s probably going to be about waiting for the better weather. But how do you handle your SLK like that? What’s the tendency for you to only drive a roadster in everyday life?

Today we read in the press that there will soon be a blue badge. Only with this one you can drive to the city center and you only get it if you meet the Euro-6 standard. Incomprehensiblely, the R172 only met this standard in the last year of construction, although the engines were also the same before. Unfortunately this leads to a massive fall in value of the Euro-5 models and to the fact that some people cannot use their car as intended. So almost everyone who is not directly On the one hand, a completely senseless harassment on the part of politics, on the other hand, but also a complete failure on the part of Mercedes to meet all the standards in the coming years as soon as technically possible. In the case of the petrol engines no other engine had actually been installed at all, so one could have created the Euro-6 standard many years earlier. But clearly, if the cars are now scrapped prematurely, new ones will be sold again.

Moin together, Our “little one” (see signature) stayed for the first time yesterday. There was a dense snowfall with minus 6 degrees outdoor temperature. He spent the night in the open sky, which meant that I felt I had to shovel down a cubic metre of snow from him before it started. Everything ran wonderfully until after half an hour (at the supermarket) the engine malfunction lamp lit up. In addition: No radio, no driving assistance systems, no blinker, warning blinker r, nothing. Engine was running, but my wife did not dare to drive to the workshop in dense snowfall. The ACDC then picked him up and brought him to MB. After two hours we were able to pick him up again, with the information that the engine control unit communication was disturbed. He then got an update and now everything seems to be fine again. That had nothing to do with humidity and happened purely by chance. However, my fear is the following: The snow masses have defrosted After a few hours in the workshop it is dried up again so that the error does not occur at the moment. However, according to the friendly, this possibility was expressly excluded. I do not believe in such coincidences. Has any of you ever had problems with water intake / humidity near the controllecronik? Many greetings Ingo