DirtyVegasMB

I just need to say that I love my S600 more and more. I have driven many newer cars, and I still feel like my 10 year old car drives and feels better than most of them. It is also hard to think of getting a newer car since the S600 is currently faster than any sedans I have recently driven (aside from my father's Alpina B7 Dinan). In fact, I actually feel the car has too much power and only drive it in C mode. S mode spins my Super Sport tires in 3rd and makes my wife nauseous with the insane amount of torque that it puts down.

It is not to say that the car did not have its share of problems, but Fidelity has treated me to all new parts that are meant to fail on W220s, all repairs including a new tranny and an engine rebuilt.

My car's nickname is Turbo Tuna, she still gets a hand wash every two weeks and all proper maintenance with repairs at the dealer, and I am wishing her a happy 100K and hoping to share many more to come.

MRAMG1

Congrats, my friend!!!

ibeforreal

Congratulations and happy motoring for another 100k miles.

tusabes

New tranny and engine before 100k miles ? We're you racing?

vmystikilv

engine and tranny?? I seen these cars go 200-300 without needing either, what the heck happen?

DirtyVegasMB

I had a leak that foiled my TCU which in turn did something wrong to the tranny. After trying to figure it out for over a month the dealer replaced the TCU first and then the tranny along with the torque converter which seized itself onto the tranny and could not be removed.

The engine was also eating more oil than it should, so the dealer discovered a small leak somewhere deep inside one of the engine seals. They went in to reseal it, but when they broke the engine down they noticed some oil in the cylinders where there should have been none i guess. So they worked on that and while at they polished all the necessary internals, worked on the engine and made sure the that all the pressure was back to normal levels, fixed an exhaust manifold leak, did a de-carbon clean up and put it all together with new seals. After the engine rebuild, I started to get an insane amount of power back after about 3K miles of driving.

All was covered under Fidelity, but took over 2 months in total. Good thing I have a spare car.

marktan

That's awesome! I just rolled 120k miles on my 2005 S600 last week.
Getting high oil consumption (which has always been the case), but still running strong!
I've toyed with replacing her, but with the exception of the facelifted W221/W222 I can't find anything that offers the level of power, size, and presence, so I'll keep her around a little longer. It's almost a challenge to get to 200k now.

iyad.2010

Congratulations