SLS/R197/C197 AMG: SLS AMG Ground Clearance
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SLS AMG Ground Clearance
Hi,
my 2012 sls amg feels like so low, it even looked so short compared with the one in pictures..
i tried to measure it at 11cm ..
any one have tips or experience with this?
my 2012 sls amg feels like so low, it even looked so short compared with the one in pictures..
i tried to measure it at 11cm ..
any one have tips or experience with this?
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I have a silver coupe. At the very low nose/silver part it is just about 5.2 inches from the ground (13.2 or so cm). There is a lower part, a sort of protective plastic bar that runs across the bottom. The front tip of it is at 11.98 or so cm above the ground. A about 15cm behind that, to the rear of the car, it is even lower yet.
A guy I talked to had an SLS roadster. He ran the front of it into a cement parking thing and caused about $2,500 in damage. He now always backs into a parking space. I recommend this whenever possible.
I have dinged mine more than once, and have a bottle of touch up paint ready for such occasions. There are also a few exits out of parking ramps I know of that I have to go very slowly out of. One will set off the front warning sensor every time I use the exit. I go extremely slowly, and often by the time my nose is out and ready to go a car comes down the street and has to contend with the nose of an SLS blocking their path. Too bad.. I'm not going to bottom out for so I can exit more quickly.
A guy I talked to had an SLS roadster. He ran the front of it into a cement parking thing and caused about $2,500 in damage. He now always backs into a parking space. I recommend this whenever possible.
I have dinged mine more than once, and have a bottle of touch up paint ready for such occasions. There are also a few exits out of parking ramps I know of that I have to go very slowly out of. One will set off the front warning sensor every time I use the exit. I go extremely slowly, and often by the time my nose is out and ready to go a car comes down the street and has to contend with the nose of an SLS blocking their path. Too bad.. I'm not going to bottom out for so I can exit more quickly.
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Hi, thanks for the reply,
I totally see, but I remembered last time I tried to measure the front end and it shows around 11cm ground clearance.
But honestly I just feel this is a bit lower than those sls in pictures..
I totally see, but I remembered last time I tried to measure the front end and it shows around 11cm ground clearance.
But honestly I just feel this is a bit lower than those sls in pictures..