SLK V6 to SLK55 AMG
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The Part number is : 104221880buzzsaw said:
I'm aware you can get the rears for this price. The fronts are the Holy Grail!
RacingBrake.com do a pair for ~£650 + Shipping:https://www.racingbrake.com/ProductDetails.asp?Pro...
I keep meaning to have a word with their UK distributor, but even if they ended up being £800, it's still a cheaper option.
Ari said:
I might be biased, but I'm really struggling to see 'awful', cheap', 'horrible' etc here... 
And where's all this 'ruffled leather'?
I thought that... But each to their own I guess... its all down to opinion. And where's all this 'ruffled leather'?
I sat in a TVR the other day... I thought it was like something someone had done at home with a bit of leather and a sewing machine! but the owner liked it and was happy.
Blimey DJRC and Buzzer! Like ARI, I rather like the SLK interior but I'm not used to "modern" cars so I'm prepared to be educated.
If you think TVRs and SLKs have bad interiors, you should see my '72 Hilman Avenger.
Now that IS bad.....
As it happens though, I've just bought a 55 plate SLK 350 and am well impressed with the interior, but I also rather like the interior of my '98 Chimaera, although buzzer's comment of bits of leather and a sowing machine is noted and accepted to be near to the mark.
I guess I'm not that fussy. As mentioned though, I am ignorant of new kit although my wife has a 2011 Cooper SD and I can't really see any significant difference between that interior and the Merc to be honest.
I have an '88 Turbo R as well and love that interior despite the fact that most of the veneer has peeled off due to my neglect....so you can see that I'm not that fussy. In fact i'm proud to declare that it is probably the s
ttiest Bentley in Sussex, if not England.
The SLK was miles off my list of target car to buy (I was after a 3.0 litre + diesel BMW 3, 5 or 6 series, but a mate of mine called me, as his father had been told that he wasn't fit to drive anymore, and offered me his old man's 19,500 mile, FSH SLK 350 in showroom condition - going for £9,000.
Couldn't resist it - despite it's rather noncy, nancy-boy, good with colours, hairdresser image.
And it goes quite well although I'd rather it was the AMG.
Any way, I'm man enough to take the flack from my friends (and there will be lots) and the wife likes it....
Seriously though, what car interiors in your respective views are superior?
If you think TVRs and SLKs have bad interiors, you should see my '72 Hilman Avenger.
Now that IS bad.....
As it happens though, I've just bought a 55 plate SLK 350 and am well impressed with the interior, but I also rather like the interior of my '98 Chimaera, although buzzer's comment of bits of leather and a sowing machine is noted and accepted to be near to the mark.
I guess I'm not that fussy. As mentioned though, I am ignorant of new kit although my wife has a 2011 Cooper SD and I can't really see any significant difference between that interior and the Merc to be honest.
I have an '88 Turbo R as well and love that interior despite the fact that most of the veneer has peeled off due to my neglect....so you can see that I'm not that fussy. In fact i'm proud to declare that it is probably the s
ttiest Bentley in Sussex, if not England.The SLK was miles off my list of target car to buy (I was after a 3.0 litre + diesel BMW 3, 5 or 6 series, but a mate of mine called me, as his father had been told that he wasn't fit to drive anymore, and offered me his old man's 19,500 mile, FSH SLK 350 in showroom condition - going for £9,000.
Couldn't resist it - despite it's rather noncy, nancy-boy, good with colours, hairdresser image.
And it goes quite well although I'd rather it was the AMG.
Any way, I'm man enough to take the flack from my friends (and there will be lots) and the wife likes it....
Seriously though, what car interiors in your respective views are superior?
Slohmo said:
Blimey DJRC and Buzzer! Like ARI, I rather like the SLK interior but I'm not used to "modern" cars so I'm prepared to be educated.
If you think TVRs and SLKs have bad interiors, you should see my '72 Hilman Avenger.
Now that IS bad.....
As it happens though, I've just bought a 55 plate SLK 350 and am well impressed with the interior, but I also rather like the interior of my '98 Chimaera, although buzzer's comment of bits of leather and a sowing machine is noted and accepted to be near to the mark.
I guess I'm not that fussy. As mentioned though, I am ignorant of new kit although my wife has a 2011 Cooper SD and I can't really see any significant difference between that interior and the Merc to be honest.
I have an '88 Turbo R as well and love that interior despite the fact that most of the veneer has peeled off due to my neglect....so you can see that I'm not that fussy. In fact i'm proud to declare that it is probably the sttiest Bentley in Sussex, if not England.
The SLK was miles off my list of target car to buy (I was after a 3.0 litre + diesel BMW 3, 5 or 6 series, but a mate of mine called me, as his father had been told that he wasn't fit to drive anymore, and offered me his old man's 19,500 mile, FSH SLK 350 in showroom condition - going for £9,000.
Couldn't resist it - despite it's rather noncy, nancy-boy, good with colours, hairdresser image.
And it goes quite well although I'd rather it was the AMG.
Any way, I'm man enough to take the flack from my friends (and there will be lots) and the wife likes it....
Seriously though, what car interiors in your respective views are superior?
I actually like the interior of the R171 SLK... My reference to the TVR interior was that after seeing a few, they always remind me of a poorly designed kit car, but hey, if that's what you like :-)If you think TVRs and SLKs have bad interiors, you should see my '72 Hilman Avenger.
Now that IS bad.....
As it happens though, I've just bought a 55 plate SLK 350 and am well impressed with the interior, but I also rather like the interior of my '98 Chimaera, although buzzer's comment of bits of leather and a sowing machine is noted and accepted to be near to the mark.
I guess I'm not that fussy. As mentioned though, I am ignorant of new kit although my wife has a 2011 Cooper SD and I can't really see any significant difference between that interior and the Merc to be honest.
I have an '88 Turbo R as well and love that interior despite the fact that most of the veneer has peeled off due to my neglect....so you can see that I'm not that fussy. In fact i'm proud to declare that it is probably the s
ttiest Bentley in Sussex, if not England.The SLK was miles off my list of target car to buy (I was after a 3.0 litre + diesel BMW 3, 5 or 6 series, but a mate of mine called me, as his father had been told that he wasn't fit to drive anymore, and offered me his old man's 19,500 mile, FSH SLK 350 in showroom condition - going for £9,000.
Couldn't resist it - despite it's rather noncy, nancy-boy, good with colours, hairdresser image.
And it goes quite well although I'd rather it was the AMG.
Any way, I'm man enough to take the flack from my friends (and there will be lots) and the wife likes it....
Seriously though, what car interiors in your respective views are superior?
88 Turbo R... now you are talking... I love the interior of these, even when they have that patina of age. If I could get one in my garage, I would have had one years ago...
As for the SLK being a hairdressers car, I just get tired of people trotting that one out, but I don't rise to the bait of trolls that make reference to it, or "gay" type comments.
I know such comments upset some people though, and that's why people make them. In fact, comments can really strike a chord... The girl who cuts my hair had a new Peugeot RCZ a few years ago... in white. One of her customers called it an "ALDI TT" which REALLY upset her, so much so she sold it and took a huge hit in depreciation!
I have had quite a few hairdressers cars in my time and enjoyed every one!
buzzer said:
As for the SLK being a hairdressers car, I just get tired of people trotting that one out, but I don't rise to the bait of trolls that make reference to it, or "gay" type comments.
The 'hairdresser' comments just show an astonishing lack of imagination and an inability to think for themselves.Best response is 'oh really, I didn't know that. In what way, exactly, is it a hairdresser's car?' Since inevitably it's just recycled dirge from Top Gear they struggle to answer.
Bit like 'Mercedes manual gearboxes are rubbish' (had a Mercedes SLK 200K before this one and they're actually a really nice gearbox), just the hard of thinking regurgitating nonsense they've read on line written by other f
kwits. 
Slohmo said:
Blimey DJRC and Buzzer! Like ARI, I rather like the SLK interior but I'm not used to "modern" cars so I'm prepared to be educated.
It's because...DJRC said:
It's Merc version of a 996 interior. In Savanna. With ruffled leather.
So basically he thinks that this:
Looks the same as this
Mmmookay.
buzzer said:
As for the SLK being a hairdressers car, I just get tired of people trotting that one out, but I don't rise to the bait of trolls that make reference to it, or "gay" type comments.
Are you blind? Cant you see? Its glaringly obvious that this is Gay:
but this one isnt:
Here's a
just incase I wasn't quite sarcastic enough..... Despite the fact that I own an SLK350, like it and am enjoying it hugely, I don't like it's design.
The silly, pert, stick-up-in-the-air backside doesn't do it for me. The front is great but makes the back look even more ridiculous.
It reminds me of another nasty little mass-made car (Vauxhall Tigra was it?) prevalent 10 to 15 years ago which had a similar unbalanced and out of proportion design.
S3 Graham's two photos say it all.
Sorry chaps, but as an owner, I can say categorically that the SLK is NOT a masculine shape.
There, said it.
The silly, pert, stick-up-in-the-air backside doesn't do it for me. The front is great but makes the back look even more ridiculous.
It reminds me of another nasty little mass-made car (Vauxhall Tigra was it?) prevalent 10 to 15 years ago which had a similar unbalanced and out of proportion design.
S3 Graham's two photos say it all.
Sorry chaps, but as an owner, I can say categorically that the SLK is NOT a masculine shape.
There, said it.
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