GuppyC63

I just bought this B.S. for $74,000 from a Land Rover Dealership. I am the second owner and the previous owner left the car to die. The car has 12,000 miles with 5 years or 60,000 miles warranty. I sent the car to Mercedes Dealership at Anaheim to do a detail inspection and the car is good except.......

1. Diffuer is chipped


2. Dent on quarter panel


3. Dents on passenger door panel


4. This is what an egg can do to your car


5. Quarter panel dislocated


6. Lower corner bumper cracked


7. Center CF console damaged



This is going to be a interesting project for me to fix all these issues. I will take the car to Hi-Quality body shop at Alhambra on Monday then I will send the car to Diamondblackexterior at North Hollywood to wrap the car in Satin Orange. While the car is getting wrapped, rims and emblems will be powdercoated in Satin Black and the brake calipers will be powdercoated in Satin Orange. I am trying to get all these done in 5 days. I will update more pictures later on next week.

This is what I am trying to imitate. By the way, whose car is this one?

Maverick1975

What owner could be so careless with such a magnificent car, what a gutmagot! good luck with the repair job

AMGC60-3

To me its obvious that the previous owner had no respect for this great car, only 12k miles and so much damage. Please post the after the fact pics when you are done.

olszowa12

The dislocated quarter panel and cracked CF on the center console are really bad...
Also the paintjob is a real mess but it's nothing a good bodyshop can't handle

Don't ask people about the color of your car - just go for what looks right to you. I personally love the orange and if I had another car as my DD I would wrap my car in Gloss Orange Vinyl. It looks amazing with black and CF accents.

Good luck with the project

wonsuk_utmb

The diffuser is really a weak spot on this car. I purchased my car with certified preowned , and the previous owner had scraped up the diffuser and they sent a new one after delivery and paid for the install. When I had service, another dealer scraped up the diffuser, but since we couldn't prove who did it, I purchased it at cost, and they installed it for free. Currently, I have two small nicks on the one I have now, that will be fixed.

WTDoom

That orange cars for sale . Has a fully custom interior from the performance studio .
here
http://www.euroline.hr/crv/vozilo.aspx?pid=901

SMP

Good thing the previous owner didn't install a roll bar .......

wonsuk_utmb

Who the he'll would pay 260k euros for that?

ROLLNNN

nice pick up... wow that orange is beautiful!!!

Sincity

Congrats!

vdubpower

orignal owner probably drove the crap out of it...u better be careful

GuppyC63

Good to have 5 years warranty!

RBYCC

Is it a MB or aftermarket warranty ?
Five year warranty from the in service delivery date.
Delivery in 2007, expiration in 2012

GuppyC63

It is an aftermarket warranty. It costs $3,000 for 5 years. If it is Mercedes warranty, it costs $3,700 for only 3 years. What is the differences between aftermarket warranty and Mercedes warranty?

GuppyC63

https://mbworld.org/forums/events-ga...ml#post4769492

cigarette1

Probably

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RBYCC

Depends on who issues / insures the aftermarket warranty.

The MB warranty is accepted by any MB service department without question as it comes up when the service department keys in your VIN.
It's basically an extension of the original factory warranty.

Some aftermarket warranties are not as easy to get reimbursed either directly or indirectly

Doctodd33

i love those AMG seats on the orange one

GuppyC63

Diamondblackexteriors just started wrapping my car. They just send me some pictures and told me to decide if I want to leave a shadow accent on the fender or not. What do you think??

Picture 1. no shadow


Picture 2. shadow accent

_AMG_

The orange is gonna look pretty nice, I see you already go your calipers painted.
Where are you getting the work done?

Alexbenz

the shadow accent i think looks good but gotta see it from farther back then upclose...gonna look sick with all black wheels...

GuppyC63

Diamondblackexterior in North Hollywood. They are wrapping it till tomorrow afternoon without sleep.

GuppyC63

After 2,1/2 hours, one fender is done!

Doctodd33

Wowsers

GuppyC63

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