I sold my 2006 CLS 500 AMG for a newer car today

that's all
carry on

whats yo new whip?

pre-owned 2010 SL 550 AMG another Benz

pabst blue ribbon for the lounge

Im having a natty ice

baller status, post a pic!

How I roll

I find the AMG packages too pretentious for my taste. Good for the rich ethnics though.

Fancy

You should get a scooter!!

benz + natty = wigger

Jesus wants you to be who he created. Not who you are pretending to be. You make Jesus sad

The Bible says not to covet. What would your pastor think. Jesus Wept.

his pastor would give him the black man fist bump

I used to co-own a body shop and always found it interesting the parts for AMG. The parts catalog would have each part with it's respective part number and then each model that the identical part would fit on and the price would be the same for each class designation - C, E, ML, S and then it would get to AMG and it would be close to double for the identical part. And we're talking dumb parts like hangers for mufflers, window regulators, air filters, you name it-if it was for AMG then the price was jacked up. After my body shop experience I wouldn't own a BMW or a Mercedes on a bet. These cars are meant to implode in 5 years time. Some dealers that I know of in LA won't take an SL in on a trade as they lose 80%+ in value in 5 years time.

For years I've heard bad things when it came to German cars and electrical problems. Myth or real?

Myth up until, and beginning with, the production of the e38 7-series for BMW and similar years for Mercedes. Up until then anything electrical was solid. If there were any failures it would be due to the design of the car around something electrical as in the famous take your e36 BMW 3-series to the carwash and total it because the computer will get wet. BMW's electrical problems started in full-force with the production of the X5 at the Spartanburg plant in SC. I took a tour there even during that time where they were building Z3's and X5's and the final assembly area was littered with X5's that they couldn't even start due to electrical issues. Any early X5 owner can share their experience...Pretty bad.

Mercedes issues increased around 2000 as well. Colin Powel long story short, I wouldn't own a BMW or Mercedes outside of a warranty unless it was built before 1999.




If you're still reading--another interesting thought about car electronics is that there is so much development these days to get a new electronic feature or computer gizmo that the parts themselves antiquate quick and are no longer are available in many cases. I can go get an OBC for an 80's 3-series right now because there weren't many changes during the decade and plenty were made however if I wanted to get an instrument cluster for the car below I could not because it is not available new. We had a very high profile customer with a bullet proof version e38 like you see below who had his instrument cluster pixelate ( where the screen just becomes a series of orange squares instead of readable numbers) and we had to tell him he was SOL and he had to sell the car. This was in 2005 just 4 years after the car went out of production and the client was Bruce Willis. Go check a price on a beautiful e38 BMW 7-series or similar S-class mercedes right now and remember that those were $100k+ cars new in some cases...


e38 BMW 7-Series

my bike is better

It has been very real at certain points. I think they're mostly ok now. In the 90's Benz tried to use some farkakt environmental friendly wiring. Turns out it disintegrated with heat. So all early-mid 90's Benz' had to have the entire engine wiring harness redone. D'oh.

'98-'99 with the E-class and they did away with it quick since about 2000. They have many other issues that remain.

I had a '98 S420 and I know they had it cleaned up for the S class by that time. They kept trying that wiring in other classes? What a mess.

Typically spread throughout the higher end of the line. In the 70's,80's, and into the early 90's all cars throughout the model line, highest to lowest shared identical parts. You would find the same steering wheel on a BMW 850ci that you would a 318-same window switches etc...Now the fanciest parts go on the highest-end car. For awhile if you wanted a BMW or Mercedes that would last you would look to the lowest model like a base C-class or base 3-series. The Germans pride themselves as being extremely eco-friendly which means these cars are ready to be scrapped in 5-years time and that's no joke. Not sure how they stay in business pulling shit like that but I've been saying this since the late 90's.

Volkswagon/Audi & Ford make a good product as long as you apply old-school maintenance technics instead of what the dealer says where you get the car. Toyota's quality has slipped quite a bit but still making decent reliable cars-just not like they were. Nissan too. I hear GM is doing better.

My mom had a '97 E-class and it would just shut off randomly. Full power and then poof it would shut off. Dealer couldn't find anything wrong multiple times but my dad strong-armed them into trading it in threatening the lemon-law.

Porsche used to be the last haven of super well-built german cars. A great car that you would buy at a premium price but the assumed quality and engineering would come along as it always had. A very good friend of mine bought a very well documented pristine '04 911 with all of it's records, low miles, and with detailed inspection and it just melted down. The repair is a new motor. They really don't build them like they used to. Sure they look good, but it's no place to sink a ton of money. Yes, that's oil under the car and it's catastrophic.