fordboy68

Hi members I am looking at buying a E55 and want to know what year is the most reliable to buy or is a E550 better.thanks

MJ50

moved to W211 AMG forum...

05-E55

I think most will say 2005+

bbirdwell

AMG if you are mechanically inclined and have a few thousand spare dollars for maintenance. Being an enthusiast is a plus.

E550 if you are not, do not have, and are not.

Having just dropped ~$2300 on my E55 this past week for parts alone and I'm performing the labor...

FWIW.

fordboy68

Thanks for that I could go either way as I can do a lot of the work myself

E55Greasemonkey

Avoid 2003. 2004-2006 are fine, with the 2006 being best. Prepare to always be fixing something on it.

E55 AMG Noob

what did you buy and what work are you doing?

fordboy68

Haven’t brought yet still deciding weather to buy E55 or E550 I want a standard stock one.

bbirdwell

Fuel pumps, fuel filter/regulator, gaskets, replacement harness to repair what melted ($1000), new headlights ($1300) after 17 years. (EDIT: the $1000 is every 60,000 miles for just the fuel system.) I will see if there is anything else as I look over my car's 10,000 mile maintenance. In discussion with other members of this sub-forum, I'm ready to design my own electrical system to power the fuel delivery system. I'm getting tired of my car potentially burning to the ground due to the sub-standard fuel electrical system. FWIW, in my engineering days, I would have designed to a 1.25 safety factor; with this car, I'm going to design to a 2.0 safety factor. I've had this E55 for 7 1/2 years and 133,000 miles since purchase (total of 210,000 miles on the car now). it hasn't been cheap.

I've spent as much on parts as I did on the car when I purchased it seven and one-half years ago. Great car, absolutely awesome, except be prepared to pay for it....

Fuel delivery system is the weakest followed by the suspension (sort of expected for a car that weighs 4200 pounts). Keep up on the maintenance or it will bite you in the butt. Oh yeah, be sure to put a supercharger clutch scatter shield on it; the clutch doesn't fail often but when it does it is memorable!

The E550 is nice but an E55 will walk away from it every time when accelerating. Except for the times the E55 is in the garage being worked on...I expect to have my W211 E55 down for maintenance for 3-4 weeks every year (it is a daily driver). YMMV.

C_Note

what’d you get done?

nvm… I see above