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Old 07-01-2011, 10:31 PM
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Glad you found a granite grey. I searched for 3 months to find mine. Granite grey with black interior. Sometimes in the right light it looks almost a bluish color. Love it.
I saw that bluish color effect in one of their pics, AMAZING. But the one I found is with grey interior :/ Wish it was black..



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gyno are u going for the PA one or the Texas one....i think those were to the 2 i found also

i did drive a ferrari californa today....ehhh...its nice...
PA is way too far away, Texas isn't that bad of a drive.


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I don't think you want the one in Texas, that's spr's old car that was bought back by Mercedes.

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Anything bad with it? Because it's tempting to buy that one..













Found a '05 C66 with a lottta miles.
105k But they're only asking $12,900


But that many miles is still sketchy to me.
I want under at least 80k miles
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...I#ht_500wt_948

White with 40000 miles in so cal...great price! Bought mine already or would really look hard at this.
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i drive them all, fast and hard
bump for the story about texas

and is there any difference in 2005 and 6 cars
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Originally Posted by whw7
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...I#ht_500wt_948

White with 40000 miles in so cal...great price! Bought mine already or would really look hard at this.
Yikes 4 owners?

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i drive them all, fast and hard
i emailed seller, will try to see it this week
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Originally Posted by Mark.D
Yikes 4 owners?

Also note no Command.
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
i emailed seller, will try to see it this week
Which one?
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Originally Posted by Gynecologist MD
TELL US THE STORY

Anything bad with it? Because it's tempting to buy that one..
Something with the transmission I think. I'd search spr's old posts.
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
i emailed seller, will try to see it this week

Yeah, stay away from the granite gray in Texas. It's SPR's lemon car.
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i drive them all, fast and hard
i guess teh PA one is yours bro

do u do obs too or just gyno
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
i guess teh PA one is yours bro

do u do obs too or just gyno

PA is wayyyy to far away... I mean, Idk..



And no, I'm not even a Gynecologist.

Just a 16 year old with a "unique" name, lmao
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i drive them all, fast and hard
dreams and aspirations .....

PA is closer than me, and that one looks nice...blacked out lettering and wheels...
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
dreams and aspirations .....

PA is closer than me, and that one looks nice...blacked out lettering and wheels...

PM me the link, I can't find it.

I'm curious how it looks and the price to compare to the other i've found.
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Good luck finding a granite gray C55, they made less than 2000 of these cars for the US market and 90% of them are black and silver. I didn't really want black, but I can't stand silver so I ended up with a black one. Next most popular color would be white (which I'm not a fan of), then Mars Red (which I would have liked). I really wanted Pewter, but I've only seen one for sale since I bought my car and it had accident damage.

EDIT: If you want one, better get out to PA and prepare to lay down some cash. I've never seen a C55 in that color, too bad about the ash interior because that color does look bad ***.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...standard=false
here from page 1
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
dreams and aspirations .....

PA is closer than me, and that one looks nice...blacked out lettering and wheels...
Funny,i just got back from a week in pennsylvania a few hours ago. the weather sucks there. And yes, there is a difference between the 05-06
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here from page 1

So sexy, but way out of my budget.
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i drive them all, fast and hard
so whats the 05 06 differences
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so whats the 05 06 differences
A real difference is the 05 ecu has a problem to shorten the life of the secondary air pump. The 06 models have this problem solved. I went to the dealer and had it updated for free .
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the solenoids are a night and day difference
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The 06s come with the blue tops? I want to do them, but I can't find any information about how the valve body comes out and if there are any seals, gaskets, check ***** (don't know if Mercedes transmissions even use them) to watch out for so I'm just nervious about trying to do it with no information.
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What do you mean by blue tops?
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A real difference is the 05 ecu has a problem to shorten the life of the secondary air pump. The 06 models have this problem solved. I went to the dealer and had it updated for free .
Thank you for that info. I wasn't aware of that.


I've seen the Granite Grey C55 at MB of West Chester in person. It's an awesome color but I don't like the dark wheels and blacked out lettering. Not a fan of the ash interior either.

I'm currently looking at 2 other C55's in my area.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=294231576

and this one

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=302884656

The Mars Red is an oddball. An 05 with 2241 miles!!??
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Thank you for that info. I wasn't aware of that.


I've seen the Granite Grey C55 at MB of West Chester in person. It's an awesome color but I don't like the dark wheels and blacked out lettering. Not a fan of the ash interior either.

I'm currently looking at 2 other C55's in my area.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=294231576

and this one

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=302884656

The Mars Red is an oddball. An 05 with 2241 miles!!??
I would be a bit leary of an 05 wit that low milage. Unless you have a full service record and proof that she has been a "garage queen" this whole time.
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Thank you for that info. I wasn't aware of that.


I've seen the Granite Grey C55 at MB of West Chester in person. It's an awesome color but I don't like the dark wheels and blacked out lettering. Not a fan of the ash interior either.

I'm currently looking at 2 other C55's in my area.

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=294231576

and this one

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...r_id=302884656

The Mars Red is an oddball. An 05 with 2241 miles!!??
go with the white one IMO. that's on the expensive side though, i wouldn't pay more than 23k for it. i bought mine with that many miles with the CPO in october of 09' for 25,500.
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If the price is the same, I would absolutly go for the 2k mile car!
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05 c55
06s play mp3, 05s don't. Both headunit and changer according to some old thread on here.
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