jwrpalmer99
New Member
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2014
- Messages
- 3
- Car
- W211 E55
Hi all,
a few weeks back now, as I drove my lotus through the pouring rain and standing water round the m25, I realised I needed a comfortable/practical saloon or estate for winter and beyond.
I missed having a V8 (last one I had was a Porsche 928SE, which made a fantastic noise and could still be considered pretty quick now even after 25 years - I sold that last summer though) started looking for an E55 in good condition with a full history - saw a few local at traders and then found jimmyca69's post on here and arranged sharpish to go see it in wales (a nice 10 hour round trip).
Car was in very good standard condition with full MB service history as promised - a few small marks, quite low tread on the rear tyres, summer opening/closing not working, and a piece of the front bumper broken off! Next service due was G+, yikes.
Went back the next week to pick it up and drive it back - nice drive home, very comfortable and a lot of zoooom.
Since getting it back home a few weeks ago I have:
one fault remaining is SBC Hold not working - I assume this is due to gear selection module and think I will probably leave this for now
perhaps next year will do something about releasing a little more noise from the car - maybe headers and resonator or something - it is a little too quiet for my liking at the moment
so far, very impressed with the car though - it's a lot of car for the money
Jeremy
a few weeks back now, as I drove my lotus through the pouring rain and standing water round the m25, I realised I needed a comfortable/practical saloon or estate for winter and beyond.
I missed having a V8 (last one I had was a Porsche 928SE, which made a fantastic noise and could still be considered pretty quick now even after 25 years - I sold that last summer though) started looking for an E55 in good condition with a full history - saw a few local at traders and then found jimmyca69's post on here and arranged sharpish to go see it in wales (a nice 10 hour round trip).
Car was in very good standard condition with full MB service history as promised - a few small marks, quite low tread on the rear tyres, summer opening/closing not working, and a piece of the front bumper broken off! Next service due was G+, yikes.
Went back the next week to pick it up and drive it back - nice drive home, very comfortable and a lot of zoooom.
Since getting it back home a few weeks ago I have:
- fixed the bumper (still finishing the paint on it though)
- installed K&N filters
- bought 2 new rear tyres
- updated the sat nav and stereo
- replaced the bonnet mercedes star (was very distracting) with a flat AMG badge
- removed the IR sensor on the door and re-soldered/epoxied it (following an excellent video found on youtube - now the summer closing/opening works - and yes it does the panoramic roof too James!)
- and finally (so far) got my hands on a Eurocharged cable (thanks Paul) and flashed the ECU (throttle response is certainly much improved but haven't had a chance to really test it yet)
one fault remaining is SBC Hold not working - I assume this is due to gear selection module and think I will probably leave this for now
perhaps next year will do something about releasing a little more noise from the car - maybe headers and resonator or something - it is a little too quiet for my liking at the moment
so far, very impressed with the car though - it's a lot of car for the money
Jeremy
