LostKiwi
Senior Member
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2006
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- Location
- Midlands / Charente-Maritime
- Your Mercedes
- '93 500SL-32, '01 W210 Estate E240 (RIP), 02 R230 SL500, 04 Smart Roadster Coupe, 11 R350CDi
He sold the SL600.What I don't understand is you make this argument in many a thread and yet you have a R230 SL 600 which has to be possibly the most "designed to fail" (or in my opinion more just designed with gimmicks/complexity to a price which means it fails) car ever, from what I hear even a 1990s Bentley Turbo R is cheaper to run than one of those!. If you really spend so much time worrying about all this design to fail stuff why not just buy an old W124/W123/R129/W126 and be done with it. All my W124s including my completely mechanical 33yr old daily driver have done 20k/mile and never ever had a failure that wasn't easily fixed by someone with tools and basic mechanical skills. As I'm a bit of a beginner with no garage (not even a drive) I've had to pay for some of the rare failures they've had but even then have fixed half myself with a bit of help from here. At the end of the day people don't care about this designed to fail stuff but if you do you can quite easily buy some nice 80s/90s stuff that fits the bill.