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I bought my first e55 last week. Then bought another 2 days later haha
Both pano roofs. The black e55 has 100k miles, with 10k in maintenance done at 82k miles. Distronic, parktronic, heated/cooled seats, tpms, bixenon, 77mm pulley. Mostly stock. The flint grey is 62k miles and has dynamic seats, heated/cooled seats, bixenon.
I have to sell one, not sure which yet. The grey is a 2 owner car and I bought it from an elderly couple for an amazing price. However I love the black and the distronic. I'm so torn 😂
Both pano roofs. The black e55 has 100k miles, with 10k in maintenance done at 82k miles. Distronic, parktronic, heated/cooled seats, tpms, bixenon, 77mm pulley. Mostly stock. The flint grey is 62k miles and has dynamic seats, heated/cooled seats, bixenon.
I have to sell one, not sure which yet. The grey is a 2 owner car and I bought it from an elderly couple for an amazing price. However I love the black and the distronic. I'm so torn 😂
What year are they? That's a nice positon to be in.lol
Both pano roofs. The black e55 has 100k miles, with 10k in maintenance done at 82k miles. Distronic, parktronic, heated/cooled seats, tpms, bixenon, 77mm pulley. Mostly stock. The flint grey is 62k miles and has dynamic seats, heated/cooled seats, bixenon.
I have to sell one, not sure which yet. The grey is a 2 owner car and I bought it from an elderly couple for an amazing price. However I love the black and the distronic. I'm so torn 😂
Do you have to sell one though? I think we are up to 7 cars now between my wife and I. Every time I say I'm going to sell something to get another one I end up not selling anything and it gets put into rotation..lol My wife likes to crash her NX each year so she is without it for at least a couple months throughout the year, so having a spare car of a spare is beneficial to her even though she says I have too many cars...lol
Seems like the black is better optioned and you dropped a lot of money in maintenance. But the flint gray is so much nicer looking to me personally. I'm just not a fan of black vehicles. Flint gray is such a pretty color.
What year are they? That's a nice positon to be in.lol
Thanks, they are both 05's with the updated center console.
Originally Posted by NewShockerGuy
Do you have to sell one though? I think we are up to 7 cars now between my wife and I. Every time I say I'm going to sell something to get another one I end up not selling anything and it gets put into rotation..lol My wife likes to crash her NX each year so she is without it for at least a couple months throughout the year, so having a spare car of a spare is beneficial to her even though she says I have too many cars...lol
Seems like the black is better optioned and you dropped a lot of money in maintenance. But the flint gray is so much nicer looking to me personally. I'm just not a fan of black vehicles. Flint gray is such a pretty color.
-Nigel
Haha. I'm trying to get my father to buy one and keep it as his weekend car. I already have a 1989 astro van as my 'spare fun vehicle' I'm definetely tempted to keep them both. The black is higher optioned. It also has the factory cell phone. The only options it's missing I believe are the solar pano roof and the dynamic seats. The flint grey is growing on me. The interior is a two tone color of black and dark blue, pretty unique. I wonder if I can just swap over the distronic modules somehow 😂
2007 e63 estate, 1998 ITB golf, ITE scirocco (sold to a collector in Japan)
nice
Originally Posted by STLAMG
06 E55 AMG on BBS’S and E63 front bumper and carbon Lip.
two questions--what lip spoiler are you using AND your foglamps look like they aren't halogen (are they LED and, if so, what are they and were they straight forward replacements?) BTW the BBS look great. i put AUDI R8 wheels on mine and i think they look fantastic.
two questions--what lip spoiler are you using AND your foglamps look like they aren't halogen (are they LED and, if so, what are they and were they straight forward replacements?) BTW the BBS look great. i put AUDI R8 wheels on mine and i think they look fantastic.
The Lip I think I got it from GermanMuscle site, I believe it’s a RW Carbon Lip. It’s been a while.. and fog lights are just oem Halogen. And thanks, yeah I had the BBS wheels on there for a little while, might switch them out this year. Probably going to go with CCW Classics in all black. Wider tires, I might have a local shop help me get some fender flares molded. I want to widen the car by 1/2-1”
Hello everyone - new here. The car has been in my family since 2005 and has graduated from NC to Florida cruiser 2x a month to all around daily driver and Lowes haul transporter. The clearcoat/paint is starting to fog on the rear hatch, but the interior is mint! Anyway, I don't have many glamour shots but here she is!
Freshly Washed Freshly washed My pickup truck for home projects.
Hello everyone - new here. The car has been in my family since 2005 and has graduated from NC to Florida cruiser 2x a month to all around daily driver and Lowes haul transporter. The clearcoat/paint is starting to fog on the rear hatch, but the interior is mint! Anyway, I don't have many glamour shots but here she is!
Freshly Washed Freshly washed My pickup truck for home projects.
You good, we care you posted your ride! Clean to boot!!
R,
2Merks
Hello everyone - new here. The car has been in my family since 2005 and has graduated from NC to Florida cruiser 2x a month to all around daily driver and Lowes haul transporter. The clearcoat/paint is starting to fog on the rear hatch, but the interior is mint! Anyway, I don't have many glamour shots but here she is!
Freshly Washed Freshly washed My pickup truck for home projects.
Nice to see such a well looked after car.... Respect
Hello. I'm having trouble navigating this site, so please excuse if I'm posting in the wrong place.
I have an '09 E350 that I'm having a nightmare with and could really use some advice on how to handle it. Back in October my ignition stopped working altogether, wouldn't turn - nothing. I had it towed to an MB specialist (it's all they work on). The first thing they did was have a new fob made up so they could have one they could trust (mine were having intermittent problems - worked for doors but not ignition; the reverse with another one,...).
While the new Fob turned the ignition (a slight improvement), it did not start the car. So they then told me I needed a new ignition switch. After waiting three months for them to get it in and install it (apparently don't have them ready to - it had to be ordered months in advance to be programmed), the car still wouldn't start. So after putting $1200 into the fob and switch combined, they're now telling me the computer itself (the "brain" as he refers to it as) has gone bad and had to replaced which would cost more than the car is worth. Frankly, I think this initial diagnostic should have revealed this, so I didn't throw $1200 toward nothing. And I feel like I should be refunded for the switch since It didn't do the trick. But I cannot be reimbursed for any of it with it being programmed specifically for my VIN (frankly designing these things so they cannot be programmed for use with others of the same model is terrible - something like this could never happen with an old school car that isn't dependent on a computer). To make it even more aggravating, the engine has only 42k on it (it used to belong to my mother, who barely used it)
I'm certainly not gong to put more money - to the tune of another $6,000 - into a car that won't even be worth that much when done. I'm looking advice on the best thing I can do that will give me some amount of money to put toward another car (as opposed to having to scrap it altogether). I would think that just the engine alone, which has so little wear & tear on it, would be worth something to somebody (my initial intention was to fix it up and sell it to get something more economical and more suited to me like an Accord or Camry. So what would be my best bet, an MB dealership? A hobbyist who's into DIY projects? I'm stuck with no car and no money to put toward it and don't know what my options are. Thanks in advance for any help I can get and again, if I'm not posting in the right place, feel free to let me know where I'd be better off posting it.
Hello. I'm having trouble navigating this site, so please excuse if I'm posting in the wrong place.
I have an '09 E350 that I'm having a nightmare with and could really use some advice on how to handle it. Back in October my ignition stopped working altogether, wouldn't turn - nothing. I had it towed to an MB specialist (it's all they work on). The first thing they did was have a new fob made up so they could have one they could trust (mine were having intermittent problems - worked for doors but not ignition; the reverse with another one,...).
While the new Fob turned the ignition (a slight improvement), it did not start the car. So they then told me I needed a new ignition switch. After waiting three months for them to get it in and install it (apparently don't have them ready to - it had to be ordered months in advance to be programmed), the car still wouldn't start. So after putting $1200 into the fob and switch combined, they're now telling me the computer itself (the "brain" as he refers to it as) has gone bad and had to replaced which would cost more than the car is worth. Frankly, I think this initial diagnostic should have revealed this, so I didn't throw $1200 toward nothing. And I feel like I should be refunded for the switch since It didn't do the trick. But I cannot be reimbursed for any of it with it being programmed specifically for my VIN (frankly designing these things so they cannot be programmed for use with others of the same model is terrible - something like this could never happen with an old school car that isn't dependent on a computer). To make it even more aggravating, the engine has only 42k on it (it used to belong to my mother, who barely used it)
I'm certainly not gong to put more money - to the tune of another $6,000 - into a car that won't even be worth that much when done. I'm looking advice on the best thing I can do that will give me some amount of money to put toward another car (as opposed to having to scrap it altogether). I would think that just the engine alone, which has so little wear & tear on it, would be worth something to somebody (my initial intention was to fix it up and sell it to get something more economical and more suited to me like an Accord or Camry. So what would be my best bet, an MB dealership? A hobbyist who's into DIY projects? I'm stuck with no car and no money to put toward it and don't know what my options are. Thanks in advance for any help I can get and again, if I'm not posting in the right place, feel free to let me know where I'd be better off posting it.
You have been going off the wrong road on this...as I once did, but now I'm schooled. Don't want to come off as a shill for "The ECU Pro", but I have incredible RECENT - as in TODAY great results. The EIS is what you put your key into to turn it. They can go bad (small plastic parts break off inside) but probably more frequently is that the key goes bad - bad beyond having bad batteries. 3 months ago my son's 2002 AMG C32 left him stranded after hockey practice. We had to have the car towed. And now more recently, my 06 E320 CDI that I am restoring suddenly was not letting me turn the key.
With The ECU Pro (https://the-ecu-pro.com) you are required to remove your EIS from the dash - not an easy job, remove the ECU, put them in a box along with the key and send them off to Pennsylvania. I sent the W211 in arrived this past Monday, and today I received news w/pictures backing it up that my key had gone bad, but they programmed a new key and showed pictures of the EIS turning the car on with that key on their computer screen. Same thing happened with the C32. Note: they normally sit on box arrivals for a week per policy before going forward - they are pretty busy... I just got lucky that they got to me immediately.
Advice: those of you who have not yet had key problems with your W211 - it is only a matter of time - be SURE you have a backup key with you at all times. If you don't have one, fork out the dough at your local MB dealer to buy a OEM Keyfob. If you have the blade already, then you don't need another one. Say for example you're 700 miles from home and the key goes bad... well then you are **** out of luck - you are now flying home after removing everything to send to ECU Pro, then flying back to get the car 2-3 weeks later.
Cheers.
Originally Posted by Jeff RoTull
Hello. I'm having trouble navigating this site, so please excuse if I'm posting in the wrong place.
I have an '09 E350 that I'm having a nightmare with and could really use some advice on how to handle it. Back in October my ignition stopped working altogether, wouldn't turn - nothing. I had it towed to an MB specialist (it's all they work on). The first thing they did was have a new fob made up so they could have one they could trust (mine were having intermittent problems - worked for doors but not ignition; the reverse with another one,...).
While the new Fob turned the ignition (a slight improvement), it did not start the car. So they then told me I needed a new ignition switch. After waiting three months for them to get it in and install it (apparently don't have them ready to - it had to be ordered months in advance to be programmed), the car still wouldn't start. So after putting $1200 into the fob and switch combined, they're now telling me the computer itself (the "brain" as he refers to it as) has gone bad and had to replaced which would cost more than the car is worth. Frankly, I think this initial diagnostic should have revealed this, so I didn't throw $1200 toward nothing. And I feel like I should be refunded for the switch since It didn't do the trick. But I cannot be reimbursed for any of it with it being programmed specifically for my VIN (frankly designing these things so they cannot be programmed for use with others of the same model is terrible - something like this could never happen with an old school car that isn't dependent on a computer). To make it even more aggravating, the engine has only 42k on it (it used to belong to my mother, who barely used it)
I'm certainly not gong to put more money - to the tune of another $6,000 - into a car that won't even be worth that much when done. I'm looking advice on the best thing I can do that will give me some amount of money to put toward another car (as opposed to having to scrap it altogether). I would think that just the engine alone, which has so little wear & tear on it, would be worth something to somebody (my initial intention was to fix it up and sell it to get something more economical and more suited to me like an Accord or Camry. So what would be my best bet, an MB dealership? A hobbyist who's into DIY projects? I'm stuck with no car and no money to put toward it and don't know what my options are. Thanks in advance for any help I can get and again, if I'm not posting in the right place, feel free to let me know where I'd be better off posting it.
Thanks. But the first thing they did was order a new fob since they weren't sure they could trust my old ones (and yes, OEM - cost me $430). While it now turned, it did not start the car.
So are you saying that it wasn't necessary for me to spend $700+ for a new EIS programmed to my VIN and wait a couple of months for it, just to have it not work, that all that needed to be done was send the original EIS/ECU in with the fob? This shop (not a dealership, but an MB specialist nonetheless) has me believing that none of these parts (fob, EIC, etc) can be reprogrammed for use after it's gone bad.
Also, feel free to tell me the proper place to post this so it will receive more attention. For some reason I am unable to start a new thread for it. Thanks.
Last edited by Jeff RoTull; Jan 29, 2025 at 09:25 PM.
In both cases it was a bad fob. They have a tiered service plan w/3 options. I opted for $350 and that's exactly what the key cost. But they are spot on with their methods/highly skilled - not a fly-by-night operation.
But let's say it wasn't the fob in one of your cases. What would they have done next? Would you not have needed to order a new, pre-programmed EIS like I did?
Thanks.
Jun 5, 2015, 06:55 PM
