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  1. IanT

    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Ok, thanks Jay, guess that really does make it a £5k car then, worth knowing that I shouldn't attempt fitting myself. I read a little about it and likened some of it to model aircraft covering, where you fit the covering and then shrink it to fit (using an iron for a model plane) using a steam...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Jay: thanks - I have found some places selling newly made aftermarket hoods and find it hard to remotely judge the quality, prices range from £400 for supply to well over £1k for supply and fit, window replacement seems to be as steep as the cheaper end of that range. Is a replacement hood easy...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Ian, thanks, yes - I have seen both cars. In fact my going away for a week precipitated in the first car landing up on eBay here: Mercedes sl500 1996 face lift model convertible | eBay The seller is a dealer and is local to me, the car Is let down really by the scuff in the front bumper...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Thanks for all the helpful posts, I spent the last week in North America and having returned yesterday I am indeed sat outside John Kelly's house after he had just shown me his SL, which is a lovely example. Am I V8ing? Not just yet, but only because I am not sure about the hood. The mechanism...
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    DAB Radio E Class

    Good luck. :) I retrofitted The DAB box, compatible head unit, display and Bluetooth modules to my mundane Astra that I use for everyday tasks and have found that while it was a PITA to fit the antenna as I had to drop the headlining, it has been pretty much flawless on the major stations that...
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    e55, 259k!

    LOL... All I can say is that someone must have had deep pockets, or shares in BP... ;)
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    Explain this then?

    Yes, this makes lots of sense and replicates what happened with my last W210 E320 CDI. Rattling sounding like a 'tinking' noise at and around idle, sometimes intermittently heard while the engine was cruising at around 1k rpm. Pulley clutch bearing replaced and no more noise. The load while...
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    Best method of painting?

    I'd be doing that as a DIYer too. :) In terms of the rust treatment, what seems to work for me is sanding it with something like a small flap wheel to get the top rust and loose flaky paint off so you have a small area of shiny metal around the pitted area, then using something like the green...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Yep, hopefully Jay will be along shortly to point me in the right direction. I'm in a do it now or leave it a week mode - the car I've seen probably is very good, certainly it's tidy and sounds ok. I get on a plane on Thursday morning and if I don't do something about this car I will likely...
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    Value My iPhone 4S 16Gb Please

    I believe only you can request the unlock from Orange, and that it will be applied via an itunes update. Not really sure about the impact on values, but would expect an unlocked phone to be worth more than a locked one. I had the same with an ipad I bought last year - locked to Vodafone...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    A quick look at EPC suggests that it's hydraulic, so perhaps more of a problem (or less?) than it might have been. Given the pump appears to run all of the folding roof mechanism just fine, my hunch would be that the two locks in the top of the windscreen rail might simply be under-used or...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    All, thank you very much, as I said, this is new territory for me and a bit of advice is very much appreciated. A few things endeared me to this particular car, not least it's relatively rare colour and apparent condition. I'd be very interested to know more about David's car though, as a...
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    Scary stuff. I will Google the part numbers / batches then. While I could make up a new loom myself that is most certainly not my idea of fun and I dread to think hat it would cost to buy one.. Thanks for your reply. Ian.
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    Considering buying a R129 500SL - what to check?

    New territory for me, having owned three diesel Mercedes before, but never a petrol and certainly never a convertible, let alone a V8. The car in question is a 1996 on 139k miles, very straight body with just one small patch of rust at the front of the of wheel arch. It has climate, memory...
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    I have a drip

    I used to have one that had the same fault, I'm not sure if the radiators are weak or it's a common problem, but what had happened to mine was the end caps were leaking where the horizontal channels come out from them across the radiator. It was more noticeable when cold but on a cold day you'd...
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    Polishing headlamps on S210 - yes!

    Agreed, it does work, and as Pete says above, doing it by hand works really well too, I've used wet and dry paper scarily starting out at P400 for extra speed before swiftly marching up the grades. If using a machine, always keep lifting the pad for a few seconds and pouring plenty of water...
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    Negotiating on used car at MB dealer

    I've got to agree with Howard, I was going to say it depends on how saleable the car in question is. All was going well until you said you'd paid a deposit. ;) If it genuinely is the cheapest one in the country and you can't find anything wrong with it, I guess it depends more on how willing...
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    Engine cutting out (EPC WARNING)

    If you've seen multiple failures (i.e. reported by more than one ECU) is it possible that there's a general system fault, like poor connection to the battery, an earth or similar? Ian.
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    Insuring a lock-up garage

    LOL, that's OK. :) Should have said it's a freehold garage that was separated from the deeds of another property in about 2001. As such it would neither be attached to the deeds of my house nor any other and my concern really with it being part of a (albeit a new) block of garages, if...
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    Insuring a lock-up garage

    Thanks Jon, exactly the same results I turned up with when I searched. The question remains though, as there are lots of posts in various forums and few answers, mostly relating to contents insurance that I don't need. Thought I'd try here as it's far more likely to find people with nice...
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