tantumaude

Small update, or lack thereof: the parts I need to put the bumper on are still in shipment. Should arrive late this week or early next. Bodyshop is done with the rocker, I'll try to get down there and get pics. Ordered all filters I will need for a service. Also ordered a set of manuals. Still need to track down the PO to find out if he has the other key.

AMGPower88

Wow, good luck.

tantumaude

Bodywork is all done. Got the last batch of parts today, will bring them to the shop on Monday so they can paint the bumper cover. I should be able to pick it up Wednesday or Thursday, put everything back together and install the new wheels, and have it on the road Friday if all goes well.

Patel

Awesome turn around time! well be seeing this thing driving around in the snow in no time!

Well have to hire a few drivers for you to bring all the cars so we can oggle and drool


Hows everything on the electrical side looking? Missing any sensors in the bumper or anything? Run / start /codes scanned yet?

Cheers,

-Patel

tantumaude

Indeed. I took a couple of pics at the bodyshop today. It looks like the rear bumper had too much damage to fix in situ, and there was a small dent on the quarter panel. Everything had to come off.


Happily, the door has been installed, as has the fender. It looks amazing.


I have, however, run into a problem. the bumper cover I bought was missing its plastic reinforcement brackets. I need to order these, but the dealership tells me that they are an integral part of the cover and cannot be ordered separately.


I'm fairly certain the part numbers are 2048854865 and 2048854765. Would anyone with a pre-FL happen to know, or better yet, be able to check, that this number appears on the brackets inside their cover?

tantumaude

Another update: Bodyshop finished everything aside from the bumper today, but I still can't drive it.

I'm completely stuck: I need the reinforcement brackets from a pre-FL car. I've tried every bracket made for the w204 chassis that is available on its own, none work. I need the ones that were sold as part of the cover. Anyone have?

Adi-Benz

That sucks, idk. But it is slowly coming together!

betrezra

T ant--- check call your local wrecking yards...... Gl.

tantumaude

Tried that. All the wrecked C63s have front-end damage. Surprise, surprise.

I bit the bullet and ordered another used one from ebay is really bad cosmetic shape. It should arrive tomorrow, at which point I'll take off the brackets and put them on mine. Hopefully I can have the car by next week.

tantumaude

Car is now officially ready!


I was getting ready to pick it up, but when it came time to unpack the wheels I'd bought, it turned out that all the tires were mismatched, two were bald, one was plugged and all were stupidly old (2002 or 2004!) Not only that, but the wheels have a horrible plastidip job applied which is peeling all over. My bad for not scrutinising all of them, but I would have expected better from a longstanding forum member. Lesson learned.


Now I need to break out the patience and find new tires. What's another week?

Jasonoff

Link to FS thread?

tantumaude

I messaged the seller; I hope they make things right first.

Jasonoff

Fair play. However, if there's a douche bag among us. Feel free post the expected vs actual results.

BLKROKT

Yeah, as someone selling wheels myself, I'd like to know this (be cleared) too

tantumaude

No worries, it isn't you. I've texted them and there is no reply since yesterday, but there are some IG and other media posts. As such, much as I hate to do this, I'm going to call out user "callmiro" on scamming me. It's a shame, he seems to be a very active user with a high post count.

Here's the FS thread.
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...e-toronto.html

As you can see in his posts, he says the tread is "80%...very little wear" and that the wheels "are in good condition for winters". I'll post some pictures shortly of what I actually ended up with. Again, my fault for not thoroughly scrutinising these before paying, but I had every reason to believe they would be as advertised from such an established member who invited me to pick them up at their own home.

AMG3.2

Damn. I'd be pissed... Sorry about that OP.

Savage-wp

Good to hear that the car is coming together nicely.
Hopefully you come right with the wheels.

tantumaude

Hopefully. I'd rather avoid small claims court.

Here are a few pics of what they looked like. You can see the age and tread, along with the state of the wheels. Edit: Really sorry for the crap pics.

At the end of the day, I ended up with:
One Hankook Icebear front with a plug from 2010 and 70% tread
One Pilot alpin front from 2002 and 40% tread
One Blizzak rear from 2004 with 20% tread
One Pilot alpin rear from 2002 with 10% tread.

All wheels are quite curbed, and this horrible half-peeled plastidip. I'd strongly suggest not dealing with CALLMIRO in the future.

Jasonoff

Oh wow, that's dirty. I haven't been around as long as him, but I do recognize the screen name.

This is first hand proof membership age means jack sh¡t.

Sorry man, but for 900 bucks, small claims will cost you more than it's worth.

callmiro needs to make this right.

tantumaude

All true, sadly. Sorry for the blurry pics!

I do appreciate everyone's support. It's a lousy first foray into MBWorld trading, but I think it's a case of the proverbial bad apple. I intend to make the most of it; I'm painstakingly peeling the plastidip off the wheels and getting some used tires this week to last me the rest of the winter. I think I'll refinish the wheels over the summer.

BLKROKT

He never actually answered the question in his FS thread about whether they were rashed or not, only saying that they were in "good condition for winter wheels". That's a bit sneaky, but I'm not sure what was expected there unless you had other correspondence with him. Did he send you recent pics, or were you going off of the new pics on his car?

But the "80% tread" thing was clearly untrue, although he never said the tires were made in this decade. Anyway, that just sucks sorry dude. Gotta ask all the right questions prior to purchase...

tantumaude

Yup, very much a case of inadequate due diligence on my part. The rash doesn't bother me much, it's mainly the fact that the tires are complete junk, and not even what he advertised: not 80% tread, and two aren't even Pilot Alpins. I asked him when we met in person and he said that they were definitely still good, he "just" took them off his car because he sold it. Due to a confluence of factors, I only quickly looked at one wheel (they were also all wrapped up and he was reluctant to open them). I had no reason to doubt his claims, which is definitely 100% my fault.

Lesson learned.


In other news, I got a new wheel lock key (original is likely still with PO) and some floor mats. Who knew a simple key could cost $60? Car is being detailed as we speak. I should have it plated tomorrow. It's about bloody time.

Jasonoff

I dunno man. You've preached this over and over in the past about forum membership age. With a 2009 join date you'd think he could be trusted with that logic100% false...Sneaky, or clever?Was this an attempt to assign false value?Maybe benefit of the doubt here. Old crusty wheels collecting dust and he didn't pay enough attention to the details? If so he'll make it right.

BLKROKT

I'm not defending the guy, just pointing out his creative use of wording.

And I never said that high post count matters in for sale items. Clever twisting there pal. It's just that low post count usually is a pretty good determinant of suspect legitimacy in my experience....

Jasonoff

And I never said anything about post count.

Clever twisting there pal