Another old car saved is another new car prevented. Quality is a better measure than age, which is why old cars are the best ones. You're doing important work keeping them going. Condolences on the loss of your friend.
I had one of these. Paid £5k for it in 2012. Fabulous car. Loved it to bits. Now as poor health accompanies old age I would struggle to get in and out of it. Happy memories though.
Soon after leaving the army 23 years ago, I lusted after one of these. My first civvy job was with NTL (remember them?), but they were well out of my price range back then. A "rich contractor" colleague of mine had a blue one-a rare Mercedes that wasn’t silver or black! 😲 It is great to see your attention to detail and the effort you put into restoring it to its former glory. My condolences on the loss of your friend, I'm sure you have some great memories to hold on to.
Aye I do, they sponsored Newcastle for a while in the Sir Bobby Robson era. I on the other hand am a sprog next to you, 20 years in the navy and still in…how much bloody longer!
@@georgemorley1029 10 years was enough for me. While I was at 847 Sqn, I spent a few months on HMS Ocean on her first major exercise, which was interesting, what with engine fires, rudder issues and so on, it really put me off sailing! The Navy wasn't for me, hat's off to you!
Matt,this car is priceless. You got an amazing input and after you brought her totally back to the standard you wanted and she deserved, she's a beauty😊
Fabulous job Matt! Saved a great car there! I just said to my wife that you put into perspective the amount of money I spend on my Grand Scenic, it's nothing compared to what you spend on your cars. Many thanks, I always look forward to watching your videos.
Sorry for your loss 😟 ..and I do agree about this car. It absolutely needed to be saved, so you did a good thing here. I hope you get the price you're asking.
top work there.....nice to see an slk rejuvenated....i ve had mine coming upto 8 years now....a march 97 on a p plate..vivianite green..61000 miles or so on it now and i never drive it in the rain to keep the underneath nice and dry unless its mot day and you cant help that...happened once...when i got mine off ebay it had a few eleccy issues....brake lights iffy and supercharger was not kicking in....(a new cam sensor cheap seemed to have fixed the supercharger not kicking in at 2k revs and the rear lights can arch so need to make sure the bulb holders have a good connection... the car was solid and rust free bar some bubbles on the front arches as you would expect from a 90s merc it was a bargain......in the end lots of youtube and merc club searches helped me get the car all sorted....its a keeper for me
Beautiful finish and a very desirable car . My favourite of the SLKs was the second generation "mclaren" version . Maybe might be joining the Z3 in Bermuda after all !
This must be the best SLK I’ve ever seen, you’ve made it even better Matt. Another future classic saved, well done, although I did think it would have ended up in your collection ❤.
had a 230 kompressor for 3 years and felt it was plenty quick enough and well built, i loved the dashboard which i think looked a bit like that in a early Sl
You’ve covered pretty much all the faults, but don’t forget that if you have erratic electrical problems re soldering the k40 module will often fix them. Yes the tail gates all rust where you said, but for some reason its faster to happen on silver cars! We loved ours, toured all over in it, like many cars i wish we had kept it. Thanks for another enjoyable vid 👍
Grest video as usual. SLK was on my list but finally ended up buying a 1.6 Renault Wind Gordini this year. Btw your Wind video helped me a lot to decide. :) Greetings from Hungary!
Great video as always Matt. I nearly bought one those back in the day, but my family got bigger. I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend Andy, may he Rest In Peace. God Bless 🙂
Loved the video, someone will get years of pleasure for a small outlay. great to see an overspend that still leaves you a profit, keep up the good work saving beautiful older cars.👍🤚
I hope it has been kept in a garage because that era of cars rust. You will love the single monowiper, but it is essential to grease them in order to prevent replacing. They are £££. But the best part is the 2.3 litre supercharged engine with a kompressor. Try kickdown, listen as the supercharger spools up, the auto drops down a couple of gears, and you just overtake very quickly. Properly serviced, the engine will last for almost ever. Strong timing chain. You will keep it for the weekends. I owned a 1999 w202 c230k and it managed 235,000 miles before the rust became too much.
Another great video Matt, I do always chuckle when you say a new set of number plates and most of the time they are needed just for slight cosmetic, but of this occasion with the "retro" plates" they look amazing!!! I love the OG dealer of them, that attention to deal is first class, Well done
Hi Matt, my wife and our daughter both have 20 year old Mercedes 😊😊😊😊They both run absolutely superb. Mercedes do run for ever. 😊😊😊😊keep that gorgeous car for yourself 😊
I’m currently doing a Matt and massively overspending on my new runaround Jag XF 😂 (no new plates required though!) looking forward to giving it a detail and paint correction at the weekend!
The very early ones of these didn't suffer in the same with with rust as the later ones, but the radiators can fail and leak coolant into the gearbox (as it's a shared system with the transmission cooler, IIRC), and the gearbox friction plates don't like glycol. My father in law had a low mileage '97 car that was battered from being in London, but didn't rust... the coolant leak killed the gearbox however. And so sorry to read about your friend.
Nice genuine & clean car Matt. Definitely a good idea to putting her out to pasture in gorgeous Bermuda 🇧🇲👌👍watched this twice as I got rudely interrupted, so maximising my enjoyment I rewatched the video again. 😉 sorry about your loss Matt with Andy
Always loved the slk but earlier ones do rust sadly. Love this channel be proud of the quality of your videos such varied subjects and your brilliant sense of humour
Sometimes it’s not about profit or overspending but saving a car worth saving and the SLK was worth saving ,just a pity I live so far away . Condolences on the loss of your friend.
It took me a long time to sell my own SLK and I notice yours is still for sale too. I think the problem with these is that many buyers after an SLK are simply after a cheap convertible, so anything nice like yours that commands a higher price will be a harder sell as most SLK buyers will simply go for what's cheap. (And nasty). Unlike yours mine was a mk2 with higher mileage (118k on an 07 plate) but a beautiful colour and spec, properly maintained and in superb condition that defied the mileage. Thank you for the video - and I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. Take care Matt.
Fantastic overspend Matt! 😂 To be fair, it's a beauty now, and hopefully will achieve the selling price. That really is top end, but it's about as good as you can expect to find at the age and mileage it is.
I bought the first SLK in this country in 1996. It was wonderful and great fun. Back then, it caught a lot of attention. After many happy years of using it as my only car, a fact of life hit: two kids to bring to school, one passenger seat. My only issue was a small leak into the boot.
I’ve had one of these. Although I owned a 1983 SL (also from Beaconsfield), I never liked the SLKs before, even finding the shape and size feminine. There is also the styling difference between the front and back on this generation, the latter from the contemporary SL, but the front being too sculpted. But when my neighbour offered me his old SLK 200K with a bit of rust and I already owned other rusty old and newer Mercs, I couldn’t say no. I absolutely loved the car. It’s frugal but has the beautifully linear power delivery of the supercharger. The six speed manual is a bit agricultural, but it suits the car to have both manual and automatic options, being one of the very few Mercedes of that kind. The roof is amazingly quick to open and close, I liked it more than I thought I would. I hardly ever enjoyed the open top of my classic SL, but this one, a lot. The handling is good, it keeps on the road well, even in the wet. It’s got plenty of safety features, like ESP. Mine had heated seats, cruise control, speed limiter, electric seats and folding mirrors. Not having AC was fine in a car like this. Also, the black interior was absolutely immaculate, apart from the rubber finish wearing off, which can be easily touched up. The turned aluminium interior looked very sophisticated. Most roadsters have nice and functional interiors, anyway. The silver body had the rusty front wheel arches. The boot key area and the bonnet also rusted, but so did the wheelarch on my 2013 E-Class estate. I’d be upset to own a Mercedes and not to have a bit of surface rust here and there. The engine did not use any oil and it liked the fully synthetic I used when servicing the car, which, by the way had full stamped service history and two previous owners. I replaced the spark plugs and the MAF or MAP sensor, it’s all very easy, as well as replacing the brakes. This SLK is one of the greatest bargains on the used car market at the moment. I sold mine half a year ago as I needed a large estate and wanting to buy another rusty old Mercedes. I do miss it a lot, they are lovely cars and make a lot of sense if two seats are enough. A piece of advice: clear the drains by the windscreen, otherwise the interior fan will short-circuit when water gets in there at cornering or when parked on a slope.
Would that SLK be ULEZ compliant?....Excellent videos as usual..you my Brother have become one of those used car channels run by someone who and this is going to sound "weird" but I TRUST...your aura is trustworthy and sound as a decent man.. ✌🤜🏽
So I’ve actually used your code for Car Vertical Matt and I found it very useful for my most recent purchase. Things went a bit downhill though when, because I had no use for the second credit, I used it to check the history of a vehicle I know was Cat B written off in 2013 (I know because I was in it when it happened 😢) and instead of being broken as per the UK system it was exported to Ireland annnnnnd put back on the road… I know that too because whilst I was still recovering some months later I got a letter from a salvage repair fella in Rep of Ireland saying he’d got my address from the V5, hoped I still lived there and was there any chance I still had the second key 😳 So I was more than a bit shocked to find out that Car Vertical doesn’t check Irish databases, Which for us, is pretty relevant given they’re the UKs closest RHD neighbour and thus trade between the two territories of second hand (and potentially dodgy) vehicles is brisk.
Matt, should you ever come across again with one of these, pre-facelift SLKs (R170), and the roof seems to be working intermittently, but sometimes gets stuck to the point after the boot has been opened, and nothing just happens after that even though the pump is running (regardless whether you are opening or closing the roof), 9 times out of 10 it’s the microswitches that are located in the front locks in the roof (those can be accesses just by cracking the front of the roof lining slightly). Usually the switches are working fine as such, but they have these silicony-rubbery ”covers” that get all smudgy over time, and stop the switches from moving. By just cutting those rubbery socks/covers off I have got quite a few of these working in under 15 minutes. One time a mate of mine had taken his car to 6 different shops for this (for a total or 8 times), paying at least hundreds if not a thousand euros in total, including a Mercedes main dealer, none of whitch had done the right thing to get it working.
Great video on a great car, I wish mine was in that condition but very enjoyable my mum thinks it's an expensive car 😂. Check for a B on the silver head protections, probably Brabus. Sad to see you lost a friend.
These are fantastic cars and are such classics. The most fun you can have for next to nothing . Incredibly reliable . The road tax for these in Uk is ferocious though which is unfair as most are driven by a certain demograph now and low miles
I own a facelift r170 "special edition", 200 kompressor, automatic, 336k km on the clock. the engine and the gearbox runs perfectly. Very nice sport car but i couldn't believe how thirsty it could be :D
Well, good work on this, Matt. At best, you've revived a classic and, at worst, made a small profit. Keep these think-out-loud videos going as we appreciate the car and money management knowledge!👌🏽
Amazing video, you work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K into trading from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires
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Get the rear subframe checked by MB, it's free of charge and they will replace if any holes free of charge. Known for the wings rotting to the mounts also MB are replacing some free
Nice cars, I had one briefly and thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it was a little thirsty. The indicator relay is hard wired onto the body control module, and I managed to get my indicators working again by carefully cleaning the contacts with emery paper, then thoroughly cleaning with IPA. I saved myself a bill of what was then about £180 to get through the MOT. Crazy that Mercedes thought it OK to say you have to replace a whole module for the sake of your indicators.
Matt, when you said at the beginning you might keep it, I thought it was getting to the point where you need a whole new channel dedicated to your 'fleet'! 😂 I'm afraid the reputation for being a hairdresser's car would preclude me from buying it but, yeah, very nice example 🙌 Sorry to hear about the passing of your friend Andy 😢
Another old car saved is another new car prevented. Quality is a better measure than age, which is why old cars are the best ones. You're doing important work keeping them going.
Condolences on the loss of your friend.
I had one of these. Paid £5k for it in 2012. Fabulous car. Loved it to bits. Now as poor health accompanies old age I would struggle to get in and out of it. Happy memories though.
So sorry to hear of your health. Blessings to you 🙏
Soon after leaving the army 23 years ago, I lusted after one of these. My first civvy job was with NTL (remember them?), but they were well out of my price range back then. A "rich contractor" colleague of mine had a blue one-a rare Mercedes that wasn’t silver or black! 😲
It is great to see your attention to detail and the effort you put into restoring it to its former glory.
My condolences on the loss of your friend, I'm sure you have some great memories to hold on to.
Aye I do, they sponsored Newcastle for a while in the Sir Bobby Robson era. I on the other hand am a sprog next to you, 20 years in the navy and still in…how much bloody longer!
@@georgemorley1029 10 years was enough for me. While I was at 847 Sqn, I spent a few months on HMS Ocean on her first major exercise, which was interesting, what with engine fires, rudder issues and so on, it really put me off sailing! The Navy wasn't for me, hat's off to you!
Matt,this car is priceless. You got an amazing input and after you brought her totally back to the standard you wanted and she deserved, she's a beauty😊
Sorry for the loss of your friend. Rip.
Lovely. Please keep cars like this original.....that's a message to everyone!
Love watching your channel, it’s so refreshing compared to all the others , sorry for your loss
Fabulous job Matt! Saved a great car there! I just said to my wife that you put into perspective the amount of money I spend on my Grand Scenic, it's nothing compared to what you spend on your cars. Many thanks, I always look forward to watching your videos.
Well done Matt, another fantastic car saved and had new life breathed into it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Im glad you've saved another oldie. With me, as long as my old 190e makes me smile the costs involved maintaining it are negligible.
That's the happiest centre console I've ever seen.
Sorry for your loss 😟 ..and I do agree about this car. It absolutely needed to be saved, so you did a good thing here. I hope you get the price you're asking.
top work there.....nice to see an slk rejuvenated....i ve had mine coming upto 8 years now....a march 97 on a p plate..vivianite green..61000 miles or so on it now and i never drive it in the rain to keep the underneath nice and dry unless its mot day and you cant help that...happened once...when i got mine off ebay it had a few eleccy issues....brake lights iffy and supercharger was not kicking in....(a new cam sensor cheap seemed to have fixed the supercharger not kicking in at 2k revs and the rear lights can arch so need to make sure the bulb holders have a good connection... the car was solid and rust free bar some bubbles on the front arches as you would expect from a 90s merc it was a bargain......in the end lots of youtube and merc club searches helped me get the car all sorted....its a keeper for me
Matt, if a Merc has EC button, then it has air conditioning 100%.
Beautiful finish and a very desirable car . My favourite of the SLKs was the second generation "mclaren" version . Maybe might be joining the Z3 in Bermuda after all !
i bought one nearly 2 months ago, 2000 reg, 2.3 with 110K miles, i love it
Hi Matt do you have a link for the number plate company please?
Cheers
Mark
Condolences on the loss of you're friend Andy Mottram r.i.p 💔
Matt has been on a strong 'I might keep this' streak recently
Great result... Hope that finds a caring owner with a garage for winter..
This must be the best SLK I’ve ever seen, you’ve made it even better Matt.
Another future classic saved, well done, although I did think it would have ended up in your collection ❤.
had a 230 kompressor for 3 years and felt it was plenty quick enough and well built, i loved the dashboard which i think looked a bit like that in a early Sl
Enjoyed the video Matt. I had the Z3 and the SLK mine was a 2001 Y reg, out of both cars I preferred the Z3.
I ordered some new plates for my jeep, " and it completely transformed it" 😂
I was waiting for this video! I was eyeing this up on the website last night
You’ve covered pretty much all the faults, but don’t forget that if you have erratic electrical problems re soldering the k40 module will often fix them.
Yes the tail gates all rust where you said, but for some reason its faster to happen on silver cars!
We loved ours, toured all over in it, like many cars i wish we had kept it.
Thanks for another enjoyable vid 👍
I always fit a new K40 when I buy one of these for piece of mind! 😊
Grest video as usual. SLK was on my list but finally ended up buying a 1.6 Renault Wind Gordini this year. Btw your Wind video helped me a lot to decide. :) Greetings from Hungary!
Love those old mercs well done Matt 👍
Nice touch at the end there - all the best!
Sorry for your loss mate
It would be super interesting if you went to the mechanics with the car and did a video of him checking it.
Deeply sympathy for the loss of your friend Matt... 😞
Thank you
Love the car, think it’s worth every penny of £4.5k, am glad you saved it! Sorry for your loss too Matt.
Great video as always Matt. I nearly bought one those back in the day, but my family got bigger. I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend Andy, may he Rest In Peace. God Bless 🙂
Loved the video, someone will get years of pleasure for a small outlay. great to see an overspend that still leaves you a profit, keep up the good work saving beautiful older cars.👍🤚
A lovely example, well worth saving.
First "massive overspend" for quite a while...
that is one of the best cars you have done with a little profit in a long time well done
Top job Matt - as always and what a lovely example of a low mileage SLK that is. Another classic saved !
Probably more reliable then most modern cars
I hope it has been kept in a garage because that era of cars rust. You will love the single monowiper, but it is essential to grease them in order to prevent replacing. They are £££. But the best part is the 2.3 litre supercharged engine with a kompressor. Try kickdown, listen as the supercharger spools up, the auto drops down a couple of gears, and you just overtake very quickly. Properly serviced, the engine will last for almost ever. Strong timing chain. You will keep it for the weekends. I owned a 1999 w202 c230k and it managed 235,000 miles before the rust became too much.
Aandd we are backk
Another great video Matt, I do always chuckle when you say a new set of number plates and most of the time they are needed just for slight cosmetic, but of this occasion with the "retro" plates" they look amazing!!! I love the OG dealer of them, that attention to deal is first class, Well done
i was waiting for it, i've massively overspent
'Well we're here.....'
Coffee poured and sitting comfortably.
Fantastic job well done 😊 you deserve the full asking price 🎉🎉
Do NOT sell this car Matt........keep it! Its gorgeous
Hi Matt, my wife and our daughter both have 20 year old Mercedes 😊😊😊😊They both run absolutely superb. Mercedes do run for ever. 😊😊😊😊keep that gorgeous car for yourself 😊
I’m currently doing a Matt and massively overspending on my new runaround Jag XF 😂 (no new plates required though!) looking forward to giving it a detail and paint correction at the weekend!
You did a good job with this SLK, and it keeps a good old car on the road, good stuff 👍
The very early ones of these didn't suffer in the same with with rust as the later ones, but the radiators can fail and leak coolant into the gearbox (as it's a shared system with the transmission cooler, IIRC), and the gearbox friction plates don't like glycol.
My father in law had a low mileage '97 car that was battered from being in London, but didn't rust... the coolant leak killed the gearbox however.
And so sorry to read about your friend.
Nice genuine & clean car Matt. Definitely a good idea to putting her out to pasture in gorgeous Bermuda 🇧🇲👌👍watched this twice as I got rudely interrupted, so maximising my enjoyment I rewatched the video again. 😉 sorry about your loss Matt with Andy
Always loved the slk but earlier ones do rust sadly. Love this channel be proud of the quality of your videos such varied subjects and your brilliant sense of humour
What a great result to manage to find a sunny day for the roof down shots. Great vidas always.
Great work as always!
First thing I think when reading the title ‘I bought a Mercedes for…’ is ‘I bet that’s an overspend!!
Sorry for the loss of ur friend Matt may he rest in peace
Another great video, and sorry for your loss, it's awful losing someone
I love the way he says “give me a month” like he owes us something, he’s giving us the video for nowt!
Sometimes it’s not about profit or overspending but saving a car worth saving and the SLK was worth saving ,just a pity I live so far away . Condolences on the loss of your friend.
A hero of our time, great job saving this gem❤
A genuine classic, great result on the saving a car scale.
It took me a long time to sell my own SLK and I notice yours is still for sale too. I think the problem with these is that many buyers after an SLK are simply after a cheap convertible, so anything nice like yours that commands a higher price will be a harder sell as most SLK buyers will simply go for what's cheap. (And nasty). Unlike yours mine was a mk2 with higher mileage (118k on an 07 plate) but a beautiful colour and spec, properly maintained and in superb condition that defied the mileage. Thank you for the video - and I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. Take care Matt.
I would buy a car from Matt in a heart beat, finally a car dealer with scruples.
What a beautiful car. Condolences on the loss of your friend.
I haven’t even watched the full video but I can imagine he’s massively overspent on this SLK 😂
Or, “I might keep it” 😂😂😂
That’s a great old SLK now, I’m sure there will still be a bit of profit for you! Love the wheels, fab simple design.
Fantastic overspend Matt! 😂 To be fair, it's a beauty now, and hopefully will achieve the selling price. That really is top end, but it's about as good as you can expect to find at the age and mileage it is.
I bought the first SLK in this country in 1996. It was wonderful and great fun. Back then, it caught a lot of attention. After many happy years of using it as my only car, a fact of life hit: two kids to bring to school, one passenger seat. My only issue was a small leak into the boot.
Was the leak in your boot from the second kid not in the passenger seat ?
There is 2 drain holes on each side you need to keep clear!
Mine was the first! It was a right hand drive Belgium import!!
@@eoinoconnell185 Nah, I want that poor a parent.
I heard at the time that used ones were more expensive than brand new due to long waiting list. Same with Boxster 2.5.
Nice video, great to see another car saved, sorry for you loss
I think this is a good outcome , love these projects . Well done 👍🏻
I’ve had one of these. Although I owned a 1983 SL (also from Beaconsfield), I never liked the SLKs before, even finding the shape and size feminine. There is also the styling difference between the front and back on this generation, the latter from the contemporary SL, but the front being too sculpted.
But when my neighbour offered me his old SLK 200K with a bit of rust and I already owned other rusty old and newer Mercs, I couldn’t say no.
I absolutely loved the car. It’s frugal but has the beautifully linear power delivery of the supercharger. The six speed manual is a bit agricultural, but it suits the car to have both manual and automatic options, being one of the very few Mercedes of that kind.
The roof is amazingly quick to open and close, I liked it more than I thought I would. I hardly ever enjoyed the open top of my classic SL, but this one, a lot.
The handling is good, it keeps on the road well, even in the wet. It’s got plenty of safety features, like ESP.
Mine had heated seats, cruise control, speed limiter, electric seats and folding mirrors. Not having AC was fine in a car like this.
Also, the black interior was absolutely immaculate, apart from the rubber finish wearing off, which can be easily touched up. The turned aluminium interior looked very sophisticated. Most roadsters have nice and functional interiors, anyway.
The silver body had the rusty front wheel arches. The boot key area and the bonnet also rusted, but so did the wheelarch on my 2013 E-Class estate. I’d be upset to own a Mercedes and not to have a bit of surface rust here and there.
The engine did not use any oil and it liked the fully synthetic I used when servicing the car, which, by the way had full stamped service history and two previous owners. I replaced the spark plugs and the MAF or MAP sensor, it’s all very easy, as well as replacing the brakes.
This SLK is one of the greatest bargains on the used car market at the moment. I sold mine half a year ago as I needed a large estate and wanting to buy another rusty old Mercedes. I do miss it a lot, they are lovely cars and make a lot of sense if two seats are enough.
A piece of advice: clear the drains by the windscreen, otherwise the interior fan will short-circuit when water gets in there at cornering or when parked on a slope.
Still a good profit! If you do that to most cars you buy you're on a winner.
Great video again. 👍
Would that SLK be ULEZ compliant?....Excellent videos as usual..you my Brother have become one of those used car channels run by someone who and this is going to sound "weird" but I TRUST...your aura is trustworthy and sound as a decent man..
✌🤜🏽
Mine wasn’t ULEZ compliant
@@marksanders3659
Have you sold yours?...I really wanted mk1 SLK but can't if its not compliant as I live in a ULEZ blasted zone..
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@@Leehuss5582 yep, sold. I let my partner’s brother have it for £600 (see my other comment on here).
That'll make a really nice car for someone. I was expecting the price to be higher. Very nice, good viewing as always!
So I’ve actually used your code for Car Vertical Matt and I found it very useful for my most recent purchase.
Things went a bit downhill though when, because I had no use for the second credit, I used it to check the history of a vehicle I know was Cat B written off in 2013 (I know because I was in it when it happened 😢) and instead of being broken as per the UK system it was exported to Ireland annnnnnd put back on the road… I know that too because whilst I was still recovering some months later I got a letter from a salvage repair fella in Rep of Ireland saying he’d got my address from the V5, hoped I still lived there and was there any chance I still had the second key 😳
So I was more than a bit shocked to find out that Car Vertical doesn’t check Irish databases, Which for us, is pretty relevant given they’re the UKs closest RHD neighbour and thus trade between the two territories of second hand (and potentially dodgy) vehicles is brisk.
Matt, should you ever come across again with one of these, pre-facelift SLKs (R170), and the roof seems to be working intermittently, but sometimes gets stuck to the point after the boot has been opened, and nothing just happens after that even though the pump is running (regardless whether you are opening or closing the roof), 9 times out of 10 it’s the microswitches that are located in the front locks in the roof (those can be accesses just by cracking the front of the roof lining slightly). Usually the switches are working fine as such, but they have these silicony-rubbery ”covers” that get all smudgy over time, and stop the switches from moving. By just cutting those rubbery socks/covers off I have got quite a few of these working in under 15 minutes. One time a mate of mine had taken his car to 6 different shops for this (for a total or 8 times), paying at least hundreds if not a thousand euros in total, including a Mercedes main dealer, none of whitch had done the right thing to get it working.
Great video on a great car, I wish mine was in that condition but very enjoyable my mum thinks it's an expensive car 😂. Check for a B on the silver head protections, probably Brabus. Sad to see you lost a friend.
These are fantastic cars and are such classics. The most fun you can have for next to nothing . Incredibly reliable . The road tax for these in Uk is ferocious though which is unfair as most are driven by a certain demograph now and low miles
I own a facelift r170 "special edition", 200 kompressor, automatic, 336k km on the clock. the engine and the gearbox runs perfectly. Very nice sport car but i couldn't believe how thirsty it could be :D
perhaps the explanation to the window edge rust is this was the very early year/s of water based paints
That SLK looks mint now. Nice work :)
Love this, my brother in law’s neighbour has the red SLK you bought previously
Lovely car, I’m surprised that it’s not going into your own garage Matt x
Well, good work on this, Matt. At best, you've revived a classic and, at worst, made a small profit.
Keep these think-out-loud videos going as we appreciate the car and money management knowledge!👌🏽
Amazing video, you work for 40yrs to have $1M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10K into trading from just few months ago and now they are multimillionaires
Waking up every 14th of each month to $210,000 it's a blessing to I and my family... Big gratitude to Ann Marie strunk🙌🏼
Hello, I am very interested. As you know, there are tons of investments out there and without solid knowledge, I can't decide what is best. Can you explain further how you invest and earn?
Same, I operate a wide- range of Investments with help from My Financial Adviser. My advice is to get a professional who will help you, plan and enhance your management skills. For the record, working with Ann Marie strunk, has been an amazing experience.
Hello how do you make such monthly?? I'm a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down of myself because of low finance but I still believe in God
I'm favoured, $90K every week! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless America,, all thanks to Ms Ann Marie strunk😊
Yes me too, was beginning to wonder if " I think I might keep this" could possibly overtake " I've massively overspent" 😅
Lovely! I much prefer these to the Z3. Quite diminutive, and there’s some slight overtones of the classic ‘Pagoda’ 280SL.
So much better than an MX5 or BMW Zed , great to drive and look nice even now after 25 years
Lovely future classic Matt👍🏻 well done👏
Sorry for ur loss of ur day1 bro may his sweet soul fly high always here for u endleslly 💔 26:55
Get the rear subframe checked by MB, it's free of charge and they will replace if any holes free of charge.
Known for the wings rotting to the mounts also MB are replacing some free
What makes you think that, the car is 26 years old?
Time for another "cars in my garage" video. I've lost track!
Nice cars, I had one briefly and thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it was a little thirsty. The indicator relay is hard wired onto the body control module, and I managed to get my indicators working again by carefully cleaning the contacts with emery paper, then thoroughly cleaning with IPA. I saved myself a bill of what was then about £180 to get through the MOT. Crazy that Mercedes thought it OK to say you have to replace a whole module for the sake of your indicators.
320 doesn’t have a Kompressor!!
love these! hoping to get one for next summer :)
That’s excellent come out looking amazing and great to see this one surviving
Your paint guy is incredibly good value for money..
Matt, when you said at the beginning you might keep it, I thought it was getting to the point where you need a whole new channel dedicated to your 'fleet'! 😂 I'm afraid the reputation for being a hairdresser's car would preclude me from buying it but, yeah, very nice example 🙌 Sorry to hear about the passing of your friend Andy 😢
Such a lovely car that's a lot of car for your money you're selling it for. Im sure SLK values will increase in the future.
My car was a face-lift been an 01 & it definitely had the AC & Frost Symbol for the AC in our 230K.
Nice find. Prefer a tin top car to a cloth top. Feels safer, and the Mercedes one lookes better. Good colour too. Worth the massive overspend.
Nice to see the S Class has appeared at SPR aswell