RLx02

Whats new guys? Just been pretty busy with my new position here at work so haven't been really posting.

Haven't done anything with the car recently. I think I'm pretty much done with it except for maintenance stuff.

I was planning on buying a c63 this summer but decided to get a decent house first...found a nice 3 car garage one so I'm pushing back the upgrade until at least middle of next year.

So whats new?

AMGnut88

+1 good choice man, real estate is the one thing there not making any more of.

Mike@Vossen

Yea good choice with the home, right now the market is best for buyers. Nice car in the sig!

VividRacing

+3 on good decision. If you hold onto the house for 10 yrs, you'll have made a pretty good profit assuming you don't somehow get a terrible deal right now.

whatthecrunchyo

Hey man, welcome back. I just started lurking again about 2 weeks ago too!

Newzchspy

Nothing new on the C32/C55 end. The new 2012 C63 is sweet with the new trans, me likey!! The SLK55 with the all new V-8 at about 422 HP is nice too. No major refinements on the C55 end except for the continuous problems with the MAF on SC'd cars. We also learned that a "Jerry Tune" on the C55 is good for about (approx) 10-15 HP at its best with no other mods. Nice to see you posting again.

Yeah, do the house thing way before the car. Great market to buy and money is cheap to borrow too.

ddtham

Good to hear from you! I remember you came to SLC last year and was asking for bars or lack thereof...

Enjoy the house and keep us updated with the C63. I really want to pick a cpo C63 sometime next year as well.

wawy

Welcome back!

W203Ramos

Welcome Back!!! Congrats on the house!!! like you I've put the c63 on hold, just had a baby girl (3rd kid) 3 mos. ago so I am currently waiting for the delivery of a 2012 r-350 still love my c 32 though!!!!

RLx02

Oh haha...yeah I actually had a good time there oddly enough. Hooked up with a coupla girls down there back in the days when I was single lol. I still keep in touch with them and i heard they passed a no drink special law!? No happy hour? Ugh...

Thanks! Although the car is different looking now..I have 18" brabus replicas now, cf roof spoiler, 3m covering the grill except for the star and custom black housing headlights.


As for housing, I'm taking a look at this house this weekend. I'm not too crazy about the outside but I love the yard, the dark hardwood floors and the kitchen is perfect.










Any veterans here do a VA home loan?

RLx02

Congrats! 2 of my friends had their first kids about 1 month apart...so many friends having baby's now...but I guess its just because I'm getting close to 30 years old so everyone I know is poppin' out kids lol.

Yeah, I figure get a house now...maybe later down the line during a mid life crisis I can get the c63, but for now, c55 or a c32 isn't a bad rig

Newzchspy

Very nice home, BUT where's the back yard? Can you play Frisbee in that yard??

moosejaw

Looks like a Vancouver Special, but you probably wont have your grandparents renting out the basement.
Those lot sizes are typical for the NW. Not like the great plains where Glenn lives.
Your weekend are going to be spent sanding down that wood floor every year
Nice find!
In the burbs?

RLx02

Lol, properly not. It doesn't really look like it has much of a backyard...i'll see it when I take a look at it in person. I'm not one that needs a lot of land, but a decent backyard where I can host some bbq's and make my awesome smoked ribs (8 hours of smoking!)

RLx02

LOL...vancouver special...totally know what you mean (have some friends up hongcouver). Lot sizes in western washington are pretty small unless you live far away from major cities like seattle, bellevue and tacoma. The one above is about 15-30 minutes away from seattle/bellevue depending on traffic. I've looked at houses further away with more land, but they're older construction and would have to redo their kitchens.

First thing first if I get that house would be apply a really good coat of water repelling finish on that fence and the deck considering how much rain we get (tons of sprinkles but not a lot of total rain actually...)

Newzchspy

Gorgeous home for sure, BUT I am so used to acreage that those backyards would make me claustrophobic!!!

559EVO

Welcome back, nothing much has changed in the C55 world, maybe about 2 people got tuned and made 12-17whp. Your still the natually aspired WHP champ.

Thats a nice looking house, the color combo inside and out is perfect. I have hardwood floors and are hard to keep scratchless, next time I will go with tile. Hardwood floors also dont mix well with babies learning how to stand/walk, not soft on heads. I got a VA loan also on my first house. Wife is pregnant with number 2, been thinking about a 63 amg but the wife is pushing for an R class, room for 6 and not high off the ground so its easy for kids and pregnant ladies to get in. Once she is pushing 6 months I might have to swap cars with her.

Newzchspy

My buddy at the Benz dealership calls the R Class the morphodite, so I dont think I'd get one. Hard to sell and easy to buy. Save your $$ and get a Toyota Sienna SE , its quicker than the R Class (cept for the R63) and a whole lot bigger and more reliable too. Get yourself a "Swagger Wagon" SE and you'll love it!!!

Quicktwinturbo

That's a nice house. Welcome back man.. I see a lot of OG members are no longer active

Mark.D

Welcome back, where's the house at? Issaquah? If I remember correctly, your down town right now? Did you look at green lake and the surrounding neighborhoods? I've got to start looking here myself pretty quick, I'm in Queen Anne right now and swore to myself i'd never live on the eastside

RLx02

Yeah, the job takes a toll...had so many projects recently urgh...


Actually, isn't tump or something like that the n/a whp champ? I remember someone had a modded intake manifold along with the same mods I had but then he had a host of other problems so I shied away from doing more mods.

For your VA loan, did you get a favorable rate because of it? I need to start filling out the information to get the certificate.

I was downtown for a little while actually - my ex lived in queen anne, about a block away from kerry park but yeah, that was about 6 months ago lol. I'm pretty much going to stick to the east side for now because there's about 4 different hospitals I can work for here. Greenlake and those areas are a bit too crowded for me...traffic around there is so bad lately and houses are so tiny for the price. If I lived near i-5 I'd probably live further up north like lynnwood or meadowdale actually

amgen

Welcome back!

Sorry for asking, your mods is..?
-Kleemann headers with only back catalysts in place with an
appropriate ECU tune? K&Nīs? -Something like that?
(Kleemann HQ is just over the bridge for me, tempting...)

Maybe itīs a good time just now for you to buy a real estate!

RLx02

I have kleemann headers/downpipe, kleemann tune and no rear cats. I used to have k&n's put my friend who is a master tech says he see's a lot of cars come in with messed up MAF because of the oil in K&N's.

Newzchspy

Absolutely true, just ask Corey at Kleemann and he'll tell you the same thing. The SCd C55s are running stock filters...........

ddtham

Congrats again, the interior is just beautiful and that grill... oh that grill. I settled in for a small townhome in downtown slc in 08 and wished I waited until now.

I tried my bestest to not keep track of all the crazy laws here! Enjoy the 55 in good health, man!