Finally joined the team - Matt's 2002 Black / Black E55 - Dark Horse
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1991 964 Turbo, 2002 Black E55, 2002 Black E55 " The Beast"- 2014 E63s
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Unfortunately, not done quite yet. Had some setbacks due to also doing a home renovation at the same time, so guess which takes priority? :p
Currently, the car is in my father's possession (since he's in Vancouver, so he can drive the car, whereas I can't right now in Edmonton) and he's doing all the little fixes on the car.
I'm in touch with an upholsterer who is going to take a look at the seats and he may just redo the entire interior...I'll see what he says on pricing.
Plan is still to do a respray after fixing the little spots of rust and getting all the dents out.
Still not sure what the long term plan is for the car, until I can get my larger garage. Current garage is 24" x 24" and it'll fit two lifts, but currently sitting at 6 cars, so I've got to get another property to start building our dream house (and by dream house, I mean garage first, then the house...).
My wife fell in love with this cute city house and we're doing cosmetic renovations - we weren't sure if we were going to stay in this town long term or not, but we've grown to love the place over the last 8 months of being here.
Time for me to start hustling to get that second place bought, and get this project done!
I'll try to get some pictures when I visit the car...I mean, when I visit my parents, in the next month and send some updates! Can't wait to get back in the seat again!
-Matt
Currently, the car is in my father's possession (since he's in Vancouver, so he can drive the car, whereas I can't right now in Edmonton) and he's doing all the little fixes on the car.
I'm in touch with an upholsterer who is going to take a look at the seats and he may just redo the entire interior...I'll see what he says on pricing.
Plan is still to do a respray after fixing the little spots of rust and getting all the dents out.
Still not sure what the long term plan is for the car, until I can get my larger garage. Current garage is 24" x 24" and it'll fit two lifts, but currently sitting at 6 cars, so I've got to get another property to start building our dream house (and by dream house, I mean garage first, then the house...).
My wife fell in love with this cute city house and we're doing cosmetic renovations - we weren't sure if we were going to stay in this town long term or not, but we've grown to love the place over the last 8 months of being here.
Time for me to start hustling to get that second place bought, and get this project done!
I'll try to get some pictures when I visit the car...I mean, when I visit my parents, in the next month and send some updates! Can't wait to get back in the seat again!
-Matt
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gahh.com has leather seat interiors for decades of Mercedes. The E55 uses one-off pattern from the non-AMGs. I'm looking at driver's seat upholstery for both of my E55s.
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Good tip! I've heard good things about gahh products. I probably figure that if I'm redoing the upholstery, the seat heater coils are also ancient now, as is the foam - may as well doing it all correctly. My regular upholsterer was going to order from them and still charge me the moon. This newer guy I'm wanting to try - I'll get a quote first and see what his thoughts are.
Quote on a glass out respray, doing it right from one of the larger chains around here was $7500-10k, so I may go back to my old guy and see what he'll quote me. He did a colour change, glass out respray on my 911 Carrera and it was 10k, but it was also a colour change...so we'll see....
Quote on a glass out respray, doing it right from one of the larger chains around here was $7500-10k, so I may go back to my old guy and see what he'll quote me. He did a colour change, glass out respray on my 911 Carrera and it was 10k, but it was also a colour change...so we'll see....
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I just talked with my local independent Mercedes repair shop. They specialize in older and classic mercedes. The owner informed me that he has been dealing with gahh for 35 years! Highly recommended. Informed me that if I obtain the new seat covers then he will deliver the car to his local upholstery specialist and have the seats recovered. Since I like to support local shops I am all in! I'll be sure to take photos and post it on my other thread and I hope you do the same for yours. It's a beautiful car you have.
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Reupholsters are the true artists and what one person can do might not be duplicable by another person. The best is to find a nice original set not needing much work and I understand they are hard to come by. Having said that, I won't be surprised if this guy did a phenomenal job with doing these seats
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Turns out, I'll be visiting the car, I mean, my family, next week, so I'll have more seat time and I can take some more pictures! My dad is fixing the little issues, one thing at a time (slowly).
-Matt
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Family is doing well! My dad is finally about to retire, thank goodness.
Car is doing well! Pulls strong, but my dad noticed a slight power steering drip on the garage floor - so we're going to have to figure out why that is, since I just did a pump replacement some months ago. He said it's common that an O-ring my accidentally get crimped/squished during install which could cause a drip...
So - fingers crossed it's that and not something more major!
Otherwise, ran it probably 120 miles over the course of my trip and it ran flawlessly. These are amazing cars.
Car is doing well! Pulls strong, but my dad noticed a slight power steering drip on the garage floor - so we're going to have to figure out why that is, since I just did a pump replacement some months ago. He said it's common that an O-ring my accidentally get crimped/squished during install which could cause a drip...
So - fingers crossed it's that and not something more major!
Otherwise, ran it probably 120 miles over the course of my trip and it ran flawlessly. These are amazing cars.
