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should I buy a high mileage C55?

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Old 01-23-2012, 05:35 PM
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153k! Very nice to see it keeps on going! Mine's at 118k and she has only had 3 problems, power steering pump completely failed just replaced, MAF sensor gunked up from my mistake of using K&N airfilters, and a replaced battery! What a great car! all simple problems, well besides the damn OEM rims which keep cracking! LOL

Mike, did you have to replace your shocks/struts? if so when did you?
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94k here and just the normal things, rear main starting to leak, valve covers a bit and i need new mounts. besides that its fantastic.
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2005 E55 AMG, 1991 MR2
Originally Posted by AMG Sleeper
what are the major reliability issues with the 63's?
There have been lawsuits over the camshaft materials and something about the pistons I think in the 6.2L V8, supposedly they predispose to early failure in some cases. There were some links up a while ago. A quick search yields this http://amgmarket.com/2011/10/mercede...mg-v8-engines/ which I think was what I read before.
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2005 C55 AMG, 2010 VW GTI (Stage 1)
Originally Posted by nladam12
153k! Very nice to see it keeps on going! What a great car!
i think we can all concur and i look forward to enjoying cruising in mine for the next 80k+ as well!!

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