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I am no expert, though have had distributor cap problems on my 94 sl500. They are cursed with this problem. Very easy to remove yourself and see if there is corrosion to the distributors or the rotors. I replaced 2 caps and 2 rotors in 2010 and have done 2000 miles since. Regardless I...

Dolphin and Jeff. Thank you so much for your posts. I replaced the caps and rotors when i bought the car 1 year ago as I had heard they gave trouble. Regardless both sets were corroded even though the car has only done about 2,000 miles on them. Scraping this corrosion away has cured the...

My 94 SL500 is below 30k miles and is just a weekend runabout. In the past two weeks I have experienced two sudden losses of power having driven for about 4 miles from a cold start. Upon starting everything is 100% and there is no indication that there is anything wrong. But then suddenly it...

My car has a fairly pleasant whine that occurs under acceleration between 40 and 60 mph and at no other speed. It is not particularly loud and is much quieter than the noise that many 4 pop auto cars make anyway I bought the car two months ago - it has 27k miles on the clock and the condition...

Thanks for your comments, I think your points are fair, and I am very close to doing nothing at all My car has brand new tyres and also 5 just refurbished wheels by pristine wheels so whilst the risk fo theft is naturally low - I'd be about a grand to the bad if they were nicked Locking...

All My car has those annoying long wheel bolts that are double the length of a normal one so the chrome caps sit flush with the wheels I have been looking for locking wheel bolts but I can only find short stem ones (Mercedes only sell these, McGuard, RAD etc are also short) and I have done a...

It is the front corners, thanks. They are not sealing properly against the two windows so the gutter is not pressing against the glass. One of the windows has play in it when it is elevated so I think the suggestion re the set up of the windows is well worth a look

Hi. First post here. I have recently acquired a 27k mile 500 sl which I want to get to near concours condition to have as a garaged weekend car to do about 2000 miles a year and keep as a long termer. I made the mistake of taking to Lincoln Mercedes for a range of niggles/ replacement trim/...