New Guy, looking to buy a used 550 - What awaits me?
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New Guy, looking to buy a used 550 - What awaits me?
Hi All,
I've never owned a MB before but I'm considering picking up something carefully loved to enjoy on the weekends when I don't have to do grown up things like go to work and shuttle the kids back n forth to school.
I live in San Diego California so it's the perfect place for some beautiful top-down driving along the Pacific Coast Highway or up into the mountains on a Sunday afternoon.
I'd like to stay below $30k (or even $25k) and enjoy the kind of fancy luxury that I simply can't afford or use on a day-to-day basis. If my trusty 2017 Accord Sport is my sensible spouse, then I'd like my MB to be my totally impractical sexy mistress![Stick Out Tongue](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
I've been toying with the idea of a 550 because bi-turbo V8 certainly sounds like an impractical sexy mistress to me!!! Either an E-550 Convertible (2014 model in the $34k range) or the SL-550 (2009 Model in the $25k range). Now I know that any sexy mistress is going to require maintenance and cost me some extra money each month, but don't they all, my question is what should I be concerned about with these high-performance beauties.
I've already seen some info about the ABC pump and seals and some mention of a timing chain issue on the SL-550, but I need to learn more about what those things mean.
Thanks for your feedback and support.
Joel
I've never owned a MB before but I'm considering picking up something carefully loved to enjoy on the weekends when I don't have to do grown up things like go to work and shuttle the kids back n forth to school.
I live in San Diego California so it's the perfect place for some beautiful top-down driving along the Pacific Coast Highway or up into the mountains on a Sunday afternoon.
I'd like to stay below $30k (or even $25k) and enjoy the kind of fancy luxury that I simply can't afford or use on a day-to-day basis. If my trusty 2017 Accord Sport is my sensible spouse, then I'd like my MB to be my totally impractical sexy mistress
![Stick Out Tongue](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
I've been toying with the idea of a 550 because bi-turbo V8 certainly sounds like an impractical sexy mistress to me!!! Either an E-550 Convertible (2014 model in the $34k range) or the SL-550 (2009 Model in the $25k range). Now I know that any sexy mistress is going to require maintenance and cost me some extra money each month, but don't they all, my question is what should I be concerned about with these high-performance beauties.
I've already seen some info about the ABC pump and seals and some mention of a timing chain issue on the SL-550, but I need to learn more about what those things mean.
Thanks for your feedback and support.
Joel