SL60 Help!

[nickg]

No they don't .

Yellow only suits Lamborghinis, plastic ducks and :bannana:.

I was trying to be nice.
Yellow ferraris are quite nice as well (in a miami vice kinda way)

 

[jaymanek]

lol, im only joking, yellow cars had their time and although i would never go out and buy one, i could never change the colour of this one as it has too much history attached to it... Its infamous in the local area and its a sort of trademark to our family... 26 years we have driven it...

Anyway, back to point, i agree yellow AMG's look crappy... its a serious car and should have a serious colour...

 

[IanA2]

Sensible advice as always John.

Ian - you need to take a step back and think about what you want to buy.
The SL60 is a FANTASTIC car. A decent one is a very very good buy.
It has always been a car that offers exceptional performance but also comfort, a degree of practicality (amazing what you can fit in that boot) and should be one of the most reliable 10ish year old cars you can buy.
It should also hold its value (comparatively) very very well.

However, you should consider what it offers to you over and above an SL500.
It is quicker and has rarity value. It should come with split rim AMGs as standard (blessing and curse ref refurbishment), AMG body kit and most of them are well-specced.

The SL500s are obviously far less rare - you should be able to find a decent one within your price range (whatever that is) relatively easily.
In every day driving it offers most of what the SL60 will do.

I would humbly suggest that full resprays and the like are not the way to go.
It would entail taking much of the car apart and putting it back together again - never a good idea. It will be expensive and potentially not perfect.
A future buyer will always be suspicious of why it was done, and if it was decent job.

If your heart is set on the SL60 then take your time and wait for the right car but bear in mind that there may only be something like a dozen left that are in really good nick/low miles/un-modded. But they do come up for sale fairly regularly as buyers tend to fancy one, keep it for a year, then sell on to buy something else.

rgds

I have yet to see the car, but I must say I am worried about the colour...I have a 500SL at the moment which I'm perfectly happy with. It's a seriously good car. That said I have driven a SL60 are they really are in a different league from the 500SL....quicker....more responsive....lighter and more precise steering...tighter on the corners...altogether a seriously good drive. If it's a good car I may just learn to live with the colour (I think stats said that it was originally black, though I may be getting that mixed up with the ebay one) so obviously I'll have to see what the job was like...By the way...why this insistance on the original wheels (which it has) I don't actually like them

 

[IanA2]

I read your post asking about the price of a re-spray, but fik olde me cannot see one referring to cost.

If I were getting an SL resprayed a different colour then I would settle for nothing less than a bare metal respray carried out in a proper spray booth. I'm old fashioned and prefer the vehicle to be finished in a low bake oven although I accept that others disagree with that requirement. I believe we get what we pay for and no one works for nothing.

On a prestige car there would be nothing worse than lifting the bonnet and being confronted with a different colour scheme. The doors, bonnet and boot should be removed plus handles, headlights, windscreen bumpers etc etc. If your offered a cheap price, you will get a cheap job. I have seen cars where the paint starts to come away from door handles and windows. If you elect for a respray, check out the premises and look at how they are preparing customers cars. Preparation, preparation.

I would never write off any colour without seeing it in the flesh, we all have differing tastes and it is whatever floats your boat.

Regards
John

Point taken John.

 

[IanA2]

lol, im only joking, yellow cars had their time and although i would never go out and buy one, i could never change the colour of this one as it has too much history attached to it... Its infamous in the local area and its a sort of trademark to our family... 26 years we have driven it...

Anyway, back to point, i agree yellow AMG's look crappy... its a serious car and should have a serious colour...

Is that yellow car an official mercedes Yellowstone

 

[jaymanek]

Is that yellow car an official mercedes Yellowstone

Which mine? Mines Sahara Gelb, original factory colour... Has had a bare metal respray in the same colour in 2001 though... We could have chnaged the colour then, but it would just have been another 123, and we cant have that... i secretly love the varying looks and comments i get when driving...

 

[nickg]

I have yet to see the car, but I must say I am worried about the colour...I have a 500SL at the moment which I'm perfectly happy with. It's a seriously good car. That said I have driven a SL60 are they really are in a different league from the 500SL....quicker....more responsive....lighter and more precise steering...tighter on the corners...altogether a seriously good drive. If it's a good car I may just learn to live with the colour (I think stats said that it was originally black, though I may be getting that mixed up with the ebay one) so obviously I'll have to see what the job was like...By the way...why this insistance on the original wheels (which it has) I don't actually like them

I just think a) the wheels look great and b) it is normally one sign that the car may have been well-looked after.

Also if the orig wheels are not on then you've got to find out if the replacements are the correct fit/offset etc etc.

 

[IanA2]

I just think a) the wheels look great and b) it is normally one sign that the car may have been well-looked after.

Also if the orig wheels are not on then you've got to find out if the replacements are the correct fit/offset etc etc.

Still don't like them

 

[stats007]

The original wheels are worth a fortune. If you don't like them sell them on! Better with than without in my opinion.

Yellowstone is an official colour but neither of these left the factory like that. The one you're going to see was green originally.

 

[nickg]

GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!
and then some joker resprayed it YELLOW???????

whoever he is he must be a member of

colourblindmbowners.co.uk/forums (you should see their screen savers :bannana: )

 

[IanA2]

The original wheels are worth a fortune. If you don't like them sell them on! Better with than without in my opinion.

Yellowstone is an official colour but neither of these left the factory like that. The one you're going to see was green originally.

Can't say I much like green either...blue, black, red, even silver.....oh well just have to see how good a job was done...

 

[IanA2]

Spotted another on Autotrader:

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/ww...=&ukcarsearch_full.x=68&ukcarsearch_full.y=12

Not a huge amount of detail though....anyone know these dealers?

 

[jaymanek]

interior is just toooooo blue!

 

[IanA2]

interior is just toooooo blue!

Not even royal blue....and it was built for a prince

 

[C43AMG]

Someone must have replaced the steering wheel as the Sultan would not have had a plastic one. and I'm not sure that he would have had the so blue interior.

 

[barryj]

The original wheels are worth a fortune. If you don't like them sell them on! Better with than without in my opinion.

Yellowstone is an official colour but neither of these left the factory like that. The one you're going to see was green originally.

I wouldnt always trust the colour that comes up on HPI or similar, I have even seen it wrongly stated on a logbook for a car with a complete known history.

I like the yellow cars, really like them; don't run with the herd.

 

[stats007]

The colour came from the build card.

 

[barryj]

The colour came from the build card.

Still love the colour, a 911 (930) Turbo in yellow has to be one of my favourite cars.........................

 

[IanA2]

I see the ebay car didn't reach reserve..last bid was £16,100....

 

[gbjeppm]

Hi, I remember this thread from a few weeks ago, and just spotted this.
Apologies, if you have already seen it.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/158324.htm