'05 - no V8 compressor, AMG or S55 badges 
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SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: No V8 Compressor side badge?
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No V8 Compressor side badge?
I saw what appeared to be an SL 55 with an AMG badge on the rear of the car and proper exaust pipes. However, the car didn't have the V8 compressor side badges on it. Fake?
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Originally Posted by Xeron
I saw what appeared to be an SL 55 with an AMG badge on the rear of the car and proper exaust pipes. However, the car didn't have the V8 compressor side badges on it. Fake?
a good way to tell if its a good AMG is to look inside, if the seats dont say AMG or the gauges, its probably a fake
the SL55 also has smoked tail lights, as opposed to the red tail lights on the SL500
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Debadge option
There is a little known factory option code which builds the car without the V8 Kompressor badge on the sides. The rear badges still need to be pried off.
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Originally Posted by awiner
Debadging the sides makes for a much cleaner look in my opinion. The side badging always looked cheap to me.
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I debaged the V8 Kompressor emblems on the side of my car. Never really had any doubters since from the side they can see the massive 8 piston AMG calipers through my 19" HRE wheels.. 
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Originally Posted by awiner
I debaged the V8 Kompressor emblems on the side of my car. Never really had any doubters since from the side they can see the massive 8 piston AMG calipers through my 19" HRE wheels..
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Originally Posted by awiner
Debadging the sides makes for a much cleaner look in my opinion. The side badging always looked cheap to me.
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Originally Posted by ima55r2
It does look cleaner, but I wouldn't use the word cheap if you think of it as a $25,000 badge package.
No, it's plain cheap. The letters start to twist from the heat of the hot summer sun out here in California. Also, snags from toweling the car dry don't help on each individual letter either. Mercedes could of come up with a better emblem if you ask me. Then again, I'm very ****.
On the E, CL, C, SLK and S the side badging breaks up the clean lines of the side of the car.
On the SL it isn't as bad because of the SL's grill.
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Agree fully!
I take the badges off my AMG cars for many reasons but the best one is I dont need everyone knowing it is an AMG car. If the person is not smart enought to see what it really is they do not need to know!
Also the cars just look better with no lettering on them. When in Europe I always think their cars look better with no badges on them. Its a simple way to make the car look cleaner.
Lastly it is easier to wax the car with no letters on the back or side. Water gets around the letters and spots and dirt is hard to clean in those small little cracks.
I have a C230k daily driver beater car and I am not sure if I want to take those letters off. If I do people will think it is a C32 and it really is not. I have a set of C32 brakes I am putting on (4 piston front and 2 piston rear vs the stock 2 front and single rear) and with no letters on the back people might think it is a C32 when it really is not. Being below the radar screen is good but being a wana be is wrong.
I think AMG cars are how they drive no how they look so forget the letters!
I take the badges off my AMG cars for many reasons but the best one is I dont need everyone knowing it is an AMG car. If the person is not smart enought to see what it really is they do not need to know!
Also the cars just look better with no lettering on them. When in Europe I always think their cars look better with no badges on them. Its a simple way to make the car look cleaner.
Lastly it is easier to wax the car with no letters on the back or side. Water gets around the letters and spots and dirt is hard to clean in those small little cracks.
I have a C230k daily driver beater car and I am not sure if I want to take those letters off. If I do people will think it is a C32 and it really is not. I have a set of C32 brakes I am putting on (4 piston front and 2 piston rear vs the stock 2 front and single rear) and with no letters on the back people might think it is a C32 when it really is not. Being below the radar screen is good but being a wana be is wrong.
I think AMG cars are how they drive no how they look so forget the letters!
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I've got to say I still like having the badges.
I didn't aspire to driving M series or an AMG for many years to not be proud of it or want to hide what I'm driving. Frankly, I also don't want give the pretender debadge crowd any satisfaction by debadging mine. I also don't mind sending a warning to the 'try it on' crowd, for all those who think there going to rev the guts out of their Honda Preludes or Mitsubishi Lancers and launch past you at the lights
. These are the guys at the lights sitting on the inside in a lane that ends in 50m who are sure the are going to blow you away since to them you are driving an badgeless SL350 (it's not like they're going to hear the note of 55's V8 since they've put a huge fart pipe on their car or have music blasting). It might be nice to be steathly in the event that someone with a decent sports car pulls up beside you for a bit of fun, but to me 90% of the time it's the other type.
I didn't aspire to driving M series or an AMG for many years to not be proud of it or want to hide what I'm driving. Frankly, I also don't want give the pretender debadge crowd any satisfaction by debadging mine. I also don't mind sending a warning to the 'try it on' crowd, for all those who think there going to rev the guts out of their Honda Preludes or Mitsubishi Lancers and launch past you at the lights
. These are the guys at the lights sitting on the inside in a lane that ends in 50m who are sure the are going to blow you away since to them you are driving an badgeless SL350 (it's not like they're going to hear the note of 55's V8 since they've put a huge fart pipe on their car or have music blasting). It might be nice to be steathly in the event that someone with a decent sports car pulls up beside you for a bit of fun, but to me 90% of the time it's the other type.
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Originally Posted by OzSL55
I've got to say I still like having the badges.
I didn't aspire to driving M series or an AMG for many years to not be proud of it or want to hide what I'm driving. Frankly, I also don't want give the pretender debadge crowd any satisfaction by debadging mine. I also don't mind sending a warning to the 'try it on' crowd, for all those who think there going to rev the guts out of their Honda Preludes or Mitsubishi Lancers and launch past you at the lights . These are the guys at the lights sitting on the inside in a lane that ends in 50m who are sure the are going to blow you away since to them you are driving an badgeless SL350 (it's not like they're going to hear the note of 55's V8 since they've put a huge fart pipe on their car or have music blasting). It might be nice to be steathly in the event that someone with a decent sports car pulls up beside you for a bit of fun, but to me 90% of the time it's the other type.
I didn't aspire to driving M series or an AMG for many years to not be proud of it or want to hide what I'm driving. Frankly, I also don't want give the pretender debadge crowd any satisfaction by debadging mine. I also don't mind sending a warning to the 'try it on' crowd, for all those who think there going to rev the guts out of their Honda Preludes or Mitsubishi Lancers and launch past you at the lights
. These are the guys at the lights sitting on the inside in a lane that ends in 50m who are sure the are going to blow you away since to them you are driving an badgeless SL350 (it's not like they're going to hear the note of 55's V8 since they've put a huge fart pipe on their car or have music blasting). It might be nice to be steathly in the event that someone with a decent sports car pulls up beside you for a bit of fun, but to me 90% of the time it's the other type.Different strokes for different folks. I want to blend in for I don’t buy cars to show who or what I am. The M or AMG portion of the car is not the look it’s the fun you get when you drive and own it. But if you like it leave them on! That’s why it’s your car!
Either way it’s a fun car!
To be honest my SL still has its badges on the back but that is simply because I am fearful that I will scratch the oh so perfect black paint in the process. My C32 was naked and my E55k is also running around with not labels on its deck lid. With the E55, it looks like an E320 and I love it. Pewter paint sure does just blend into the landscape.
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Originally Posted by waldis
does anyone have a picture of how the car looks like with no side v8 kompressor badge?
also, lets not forget that you can also looks at the tail light to see if its a sl55 or not.
also, lets not forget that you can also looks at the tail light to see if its a sl55 or not.
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Originally Posted by CynCarvin32
Frankly those are the very ones I don’t want to know what I have. Its a rice rocket... let it go... I hate those crap box's its more fun to let them buzz off like a mosquito while you just idle away in style. Plus racing those cars is a risk for it’s not likely insured well and every now and then a 400 hp civic could cross your path. The last thing you expect when charging down that soon to merge to one lane section of road is for that civic to be right next to you at 70 mph. If it were a lancer or STi, it is quite possible that by this point you would be seeing their over sized rear wing. But if that is the case... fear not it’s still a pos compact car.
Anyway, that's enough of my sidetrack for time being. I enjoy my badges for my own reasons and as was said, each to their own...
Last edited by OzSL55; Sep 21, 2004 at 01:09 AM.
