2007 C55 AMG estate - buying advice
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If you needed to prioritise I would push out the stuff that won't leave you stranded. Rear discs if they are otherwise ok, I'd leave till later. Same for door straps. If the brake fluid is ok and no issues with air in the system then I'd also leave the bleed nipples til next year or one after when due. They will probably need drilling out and helicoiling or timesheet anyway.
edc said:
If you needed to prioritise I would push out the stuff that won't leave you stranded. Rear discs if they are otherwise ok, I'd leave till later. Same for door straps.
Discs were only £300. Also why would you compromise a safety issue over a not getting stranded? Surely all safety items first then the rest
Given the number remaining and that this would have been a what £60-65k Sports Estate when new it’s price to enter is really low especially when you consider that the E60 M5 touring is also low numbers but multiplies of C55 AMG seems bonkers that the M5 is so much more when to buy new it was a similar number and just as special.
Digger I’d wager it’s still plenty fast even today but you have that lovely V8 under its hood
Digger I’d wager it’s still plenty fast even today but you have that lovely V8 under its hood
Welshbeef said:
edc said:
If you needed to prioritise I would push out the stuff that won't leave you stranded. Rear discs if they are otherwise ok, I'd leave till later. Same for door straps.
Discs were only £300. Also why would you compromise a safety issue over a not getting stranded? Surely all safety items first then the rest
With a mild remap you can have 400bhp and 400lbsft. That is more than enough for most needs. The suspension on these is too soft and not well damped enough to cope with much more. The rear tyre size is from memory 255 which is narrower than an 18" shod 986 or 996 which would have 100bhp less. Either Porsche though would leave a C55 behind in the twisted though.
Welshbeef said:
edc said:
Because discs being corroded does not mean it is an accident waiting to happen, even more so being the rears. It also doesn't mean they are not effective. This is used for commuting.
It’s £300. 
The garage said that the reason to swap the discs and pads would be "to remove any vibration through the pedal", it's not a safety issue- at this point anyway.
To be clear, normally I'd just say "do the lot", and I shall do so - but time and cash is tight at this point, a friend is borrowing the car in five days, so there's a limit to what the garage can fix in that time.
I'm thinking of getting this subset of the total done:
NSR spring broken, req 2 new springs, £338.40
OSF ARB link gaitor split, req new link, £86.58
Both torque strut bushes torn, req 2 new bushes £263.28
O/S engine mount has leaked out oil, req 3 x mounts, £572.80
Total £1,261.06
Then when I get the car back, and I've been paid again, I'll tackle the rest.
I'm not going to change the gasket and RMS until we've got to the bottom of whether the breathers are blocked and over-pressurising the crankcase though, as we'd just blow them back out again I suspect.
On the C63 front - I didn't want to risk the headbolts on those engines, read too many "and then I hydro-locked the engine" stories on the owners forums!
To be clear, normally I'd just say "do the lot", and I shall do so - but time and cash is tight at this point, a friend is borrowing the car in five days, so there's a limit to what the garage can fix in that time.
I'm thinking of getting this subset of the total done:
NSR spring broken, req 2 new springs, £338.40
OSF ARB link gaitor split, req new link, £86.58
Both torque strut bushes torn, req 2 new bushes £263.28
O/S engine mount has leaked out oil, req 3 x mounts, £572.80
Total £1,261.06
Then when I get the car back, and I've been paid again, I'll tackle the rest.
I'm not going to change the gasket and RMS until we've got to the bottom of whether the breathers are blocked and over-pressurising the crankcase though, as we'd just blow them back out again I suspect.
On the C63 front - I didn't want to risk the headbolts on those engines, read too many "and then I hydro-locked the engine" stories on the owners forums!
Has your specialist not advised you on the gasket leak? If it's what I think it is it's pretty common. It's a matter of when not if it goes. I've never heard of it being a breather problem. Have a read around some of the Merc forums and as already posted it's not just the C55 this happens too.
edc said:
With a mild remap you can have 400bhp and 400lbsft. That is more than enough for most needs. The suspension on these is too soft and not well damped enough to cope with much more. The rear tyre size is from memory 255 which is narrower than an 18" shod 986 or 996 which would have 100bhp less. Either Porsche though would leave a C55 behind in the twisted though.
Indeed the C55 is a little behind the 911,you'd expect that but with an official ring lap of 8.22 for the C55 that's pretty darn impressive for a fairly heavy car,matching an E46 M3 and above some well known performance icons.AMG did alot of chassis work on the C55 over the earlier C32 model and their hard work paid off.C32 AMG did an 8:37 which makes the C55 all the more impressive and shows just how much development work went into the later car.The C55 AMG also used the front end from the CLK ofcourse which was 80mm longer and needed in order to stuff that big 5.4L V8 in along with all the extras.
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