Flooded S550 I need help
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Joined: May 2019
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From: Omaha, NE
2007 S600
Darned nice result for a flood victim car! Congrats. Just curious, what was your gas mileage like to FL and back? I'm curious because we just did a 3K mile trip in our S600, I'm interested to know what the S550 4Matic will do on a similar trip.
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From: Tampa Bay, FL
2014 E350 Wagon, 2009 SL550 no ABC
Awesome work and congrats on the job well done! Very impressive and the car looks beautiful.
I guess all those comments that you don't have the skills, you don't know what you are doing, that the car is worth $300, that you should dump it or part it out etc must have helped you with a motivation to have it done :-)
I guess all those comments that you don't have the skills, you don't know what you are doing, that the car is worth $300, that you should dump it or part it out etc must have helped you with a motivation to have it done :-)
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2018 S450 4Matic, 2020 GLE450 4Matic, 2010 S550 4Matic(sold), 2012 ML350 4Matic(sold)
Congrats to you for being successful on what many of us would have said was an impossible project.
I'm sure we will all be interested to hear how your car holds up in the long term.
Good for you!
I'm sure we will all be interested to hear how your car holds up in the long term.
Good for you!
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2012 s550
i really don't pay much attention to gas miles, i can tell you it's not great. plenty of power though
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Joined: May 2019
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2012 s550
Awesome work and congrats on the job well done! Very impressive and the car looks beautiful.
I guess all those comments that you don't have the skills, you don't know what you are doing, that the car is worth $300, that you should dump it or part it out etc must have helped you with a motivation to have it done :-)
I guess all those comments that you don't have the skills, you don't know what you are doing, that the car is worth $300, that you should dump it or part it out etc must have helped you with a motivation to have it done :-)
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2012 s550
it's been about 8 months since i fixed it, i put about 4k miles on it, so far zero issues , granted it's not my daily driver
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s600
congrats on your built it looks great,
it is interesting how many negative feedbacks you got at the beginning from people who have no idea what are they talking about ,
I rebuilt few flooded Audi S5 A7 and got same stupid feedbacks from audi forums
my friend was giving me same advice when I got my flooded A7 , after 1 month I was driving an Audi A7 and he had his used Toyota Venza for 3x of the price (CLEAAAAAN TITLE)
it is interesting how many negative feedbacks you got at the beginning from people who have no idea what are they talking about ,
I rebuilt few flooded Audi S5 A7 and got same stupid feedbacks from audi forums
my friend was giving me same advice when I got my flooded A7 , after 1 month I was driving an Audi A7 and he had his used Toyota Venza for 3x of the price (CLEAAAAAN TITLE)
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2017 GLE350 4MATIC
@Kevin Sahib Great progress! It's impressive what you have done with this car. What is your total investment in the car now?
