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.
