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Old 10-24-2011, 11:41 AM
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Welcome to the forum! Remember, the search button is your friend. Everything you might want to know about, or do to your car, has been done here at least twice. There's probably a DIY up about it as well. Great community here.
+1...CH..."at least twice" is an understatement. To OP...I'd link you up to some threads but its a ***** to do it on a cell phone. Just try the search button...you will get a lot of info (more than you want possibly) on mods you can do...mild to wild.

I would determine your...

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2. Realistic goals...performance/aesthetics

I think the W211 AMG platform has probably been the most extensively modified AMG on here...that is just from my perception and from personal experience...so there is a wealth of experience that you can tap as far as mods. Just take the effort to do a search first and get a gauge on how far you want to go based on what you find. The W211 AMG platform is over 8 yrs old so a general question as far as recommendations has been covered a multitude of time.
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Jon, what is in store for the H car?
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I think debadge, lambo doors, and purple neon mood lighting...on 22"s.
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I think debadge, lambo doors, and purple neon mood lighting...on 22"s.
Not kidding in the late '90's I had purple neons in my Volvo C70.
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'06 Black Opal E55 AMG
OK here is a pic of my first mod. What do you guys think? Lowered it and seems to be at a decent level front and rear.

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Looks like the rear is sticking up. If you had an ELM, you could hit a button and drop it down.
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Yea it does in that pic. What was weird is once I start the car it lowered a little. I can mess with it again I suppose. Just the first time I lowered it, as usual the rear was dumped and had to adjust it back up.
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Yea it does in that pic. What was weird is once I start the car it lowered a little. I can mess with it again I suppose. Just the first time I lowered it, as usual the rear was dumped and had to adjust it back up.
They will constantly adjust on uneven ground.
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'06 Black Opal E55 AMG
Maybe its also the angle... here are a few more pics.




This is from earlier today at my buddy's house


And here was my first aweful attempt last night when it got dark on me working g on it in the driveway at a friends house. Don't laugh too much at the rear dumpage.

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I swear that paint changes color BTW. Weird. LOL.
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Maybe its the little 18s that make it look odd. I probally would have left mine stock if it were not for the 20s.
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I swear that paint changes color BTW. Weird. LOL.
I actuall really like Black Opal. Mine is Obsidian Black which is metallic black, but I do like the Black Opal. Everyone has 070 Black and Silver.
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Haha yea the "little" 18s. I told my buddy today if he ever put different wheels on his CLS55 I have first dibs on his 19s.

And yea thanks. I love the color. I did notice when I was shopping for a car most were black or silver. I really wanted white, but I am OK with black Opal. It sounds like its pretty unique. Probably not as rare as white though.
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+1...CH..."at least twice" is an understatement. To OP...I'd link you up to some threads but its a ***** to do it on a cell phone. Just try the search button...you will get a lot of info (more than you want possibly) on mods you can do...mild to wild.

I would determine your...

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I think the W211 AMG platform has probably been the most extensively modified AMG on here...that is just from my perception and from personal experience...so there is a wealth of experience that you can tap as far as mods. Just take the effort to do a search first and get a gauge on how far you want to go based on what you find. The W211 AMG platform is over 8 yrs old so a general question as far as recommendations has been covered a multitude of time.

Ok awesome, I've already done lots of searching. The one thing I really want to do is upgrade the awful factory nav. I have only found one descent looking solution, and that's the Dynavin unit, but can't find any concrete answers or verification if it will work in my car with HK 7.1 I have a nice Kenwood DNX9960 nav unit from my last car, but from what I hear would be a nightmare to try to install in my car. Anybody have anymore info on what options I have from what I've found searching so far?
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