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Well tonight was a End of a chapter, Silvia my e55 fondly named by my son was sold to its new keeper.

She was a great car that ticked all the box’s and helped us move to our new house.

What the devil do you replace a 500hp estate with??
 
Well tonight was a End of a chapter, Silvia my e55 fondly named by my son was sold to its new keeper.

She was a great car that ticked all the box’s and helped us move to our new house.

What the devil do you replace a 500hp estate with??
A 650+bhp E63 Biturbo?;)
 
Haha time tobe sensible for a while i think, not that its stops you looking ;)
 
The time to be sensible is when boring EV's are the only choice.
Go on, you know you want to.:D
What i will say is the Wife as much as she'd like to is NOT going tobe spending the funds raised on a new kitchen lol Thats WAY to sensible haha
 
Hell NOooooo! haha we already have a slush fund for that... BUT DAM those tiles are expensive lol
 
Well tonight was a End of a chapter, Silvia my e55 fondly named by my son was sold to its new keeper.

She was a great car that ticked all the box’s and helped us move to our new house.

What the devil do you replace a 500hp estate with??

I'm sad to read this. For me, it was one of the best E55's period. I continuously refer back to your thread to learn more about them.
I hope the new owner loves it as much as you did.


Vick
 
I'm sad to read this. For me, it was one of the best E55's period. I continuously refer back to your thread to learn more about them.
I hope the new owner loves it as much as you did.


Vick
Thankyou Vick, She was indeed very clean and original Even the chap who came to pick her up said there was Good condition and then this lol.
Perhaps i under sold her but she has gone to a good home and a very honest straight buyer, Although i don't think his on the forum.

It was a very quick sale so didnt really have much chance to point him over to here, he was a Ex BMW fan.
 
Hi new to this forum but been on the other one and added to the AMG FB group.

Had my Obsidian black S211 for just over three years now bought in good condition low miles at the time 58k although a couple of minters have come up with even lower miles but didn't like the silver as much on estate body as black and also all had black interior or the loud two tone from earlier year

Mine is 2006 06 reg so has all the updated parts, speedo to 200mph, CLS steering rack, late model SL55 blower, mesh centre speaker grille, metal pedals, galvanized body, non leaky radiator etc. mine has designo interior in ivory white with matching side panels, the arm rests are in a dark grey with a dark purple coloured sticthing, sadly the wood trim has faded from it's backish colour to a lightly tinted maple ash looking colour it looks worse in pics it seems to make it look puke colour but it kinda matches the white looking at getting it profesionally tinted again with tinted lacquer or spary but won't go completely black. If anyone knows anywhere let me know! And yes the Mats are uber rare and I shouldn't use them and yes they are a bit dirty in that pic but since been cleaned! lol!

To make mine minty again I've done some mechanical and body stuff, engine needed 8 new coil packs, 16 new leads upgraded to 10mm race silicone racing wire, new plugs, new plugs for coils, supercharger oil replacement, new clips for the underbonnet pastic covers for both sides of firewall, new undertrays for engine and under chassis as they were missing or bashed to pieces. Complete front end suspension rebuild and I used all new Bilstein B4 shocks and bags, Lemforder front suspension arms which came with solid rubber bushes rather than the mushy hydraulic Mercedes ones (suspect same as CLS), so steering feel and handling is much improved over the std items handles pretty decent for a large heavy car to be fair compared to original suspension. Still no M car but you don't get injured back when you want to drive on a long run! I've got BMW's and those spherical suspension bushes are great for track but UK roads tend to leave your back or your teeth in pieces! Original alloys refurbed two sets one with old tyres for storage over winter and another with Michelin sport 4 with 275/35/18 rear tyre so the rears are little bigger diameter rather than smaller than fronts OCD thing, and little wider helps with traction it's pretty controlled in all weather except snow unless your being a complete tool with it. Although I tend to heavily modify all my cars I've kept this one mainly std for now as quite frankly it just doesn't need it and about the only thing I'd maybe get later would be some nicer shorty headers and a remap to delimit it and just make it run a bit more efficient but not fussed too much by last two mods only will do this if manifolds start to leak. Not interested in pulleys, or long tube headers and CAT removals tbh I'd rather pull the heads do some headwork, maybe cams, shorty headers and decent map to get it more efficient. I won't lie I would like some nicer wheels possibly E63 W211 performance pack split rim wheels or maybe the E55 one but just can't justify the money when I have two sets of the std ones.E55 (3).jpg
 

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Welcome nice looking motor that i personally hate dark interiors 😃
 
Welcome nice looking motor that i personally hate dark interiors 😃
Thanks yeah I do seem to be drawn to lighter colour interiors as much as black is easier to maintain and clean, my wifes old Golf cabrio had tan leather that went perfect with the Indigo blue paint, and her new Q7 which is ink blue mettalic also has a chocolate and tan interior which looks fine to me not everyones cup of tea and kids puke matches the colour well too! lol! Been a great car to own and work on, although the radiator fan is an absolute sod to get out compared to BMW's I've had which in general seem to be easier to work on in the engine bay, but this isn't too bad compared to newer ones which are nigh on impossible, just case of get that PIA fan out they way and you can pretty much do most things in a home garage. three years I've had it apart from the service items I have changed above to get rid of poor idle and miss fire it's been really reliable, obviously it's had new water pump for heat exchanger fitted 010 bosch pump, and it's got a brand new Merc Airmatic pump, along with the front air strut which failed which led to suspension refresh those three things been the only major parts to fail which for old car isn't unexpected tbh and not terrible, the cost of the air shocks was a bit ahem shocking even at trade price! but they ride so nice with them and they'll last a long time now so I don't mind, tbh price of decent coilovers isn't exactly much less and they won't last forever either.
 
Now that colour combo must be 1 of 1! Stunning colours......the wood inlays, not so much.
 
Now that colour combo must be 1 of 1! Stunning colours......the wood inlays, not so much.
The wood looks worse through my HDR camera phone it's not that light in reality and was much darker when new just faded badly hopefully get it sorted some point soon or I may just go piano black on it if are tinting it isn't easy, not into carbon look everywhere so won't be wrapping it.
 
Car looks great, agree about the wood. Not sure why but the later/facelift era 211s seem to fade much worse than the early ones. Maybe a different type of lacquer or something?

Would definitely look at getting it refurbished, would finish the car off a treat :cool:
 
Just finding the right place and having the time to strip the wood off the doors, the dash and centre console not too hard but front doors bit more involved, the rears are like new thankfully due to lack of light into the back I guess. Only other thing I would like to add is screen in the rear centre as it has the digital TV tuner and DVD player seems odd not to have the rear screen fitted to use it lol, sadly the command is newer one where you can't unlock it when moving so kids can't even watch it not that you can really see it from the sides.
 
I wood ;) look out for a spare set of the trim pieces, get them refurbished if need be then you can swap at your leisure :cool:
 
This was one of mine, a 2004 150k miler, a bit faded but not too bad.

I had a silver 100k miler and the wood in that was almost as new :cool:
 

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I wood ;) look out for a spare set of the trim pieces, get them refurbished if need be then you can swap at your leisure :cool:
It's a good idea in principle but getting a set that has matching grain all the way round, and finding one with the gear lever surround in wood and having the full set of holes for all the buttons has been somewhat challenging lol! If I was to go piano black it wouldn't matter but I'd like try for Ash Grey tinted effect first if possible as the areas where it's not faded it looks nice. Could be worse things to worry about sorting out lol! Those that been sat outside earlier in their lives seem to have been faded far worse from what I can tell so the lacquer just doesn't like UV rays
 

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