Looking at a 1995 SL600

[tomf301]

A friend of a friend has one for sale for $9-10,000. 75,000 miles but I don't know much about the maintenance history. Its in good shape. What do you think? What are the major failures on these little beauties. No need to be gentle - I have a 1997 BMW 740iL that I maintain myself (best friend has a lift). The e38 has 251,000 on it and when I turn off the traction control and power brake it a little it will break the back tires loose.

[POS]

The V12 is supposed to be crazy expensive to maintain, and insanely expensive to repair. In addition, nothing on those R129s is cheap. So, if have a good $3000-$4000 a year to spend on maintenance, get it.

[Big Al MA]

I have a '94 500SL and it's a bag of money to keep it up. the big thing I know of is the original wiring harnesses being crap. They begin to crumble due to the engine heat. This happened to mine and it's going to cost +-$1k to fix, depending on what I can do myself and what assy are done.

If you have to go to the Stealer or even an Indy for repairs it's going to be a bag of money every time. Be prepared to not do everything yourself. I have owned and personally maintained BMW's, Volvos and numerous american cars, and I can tell you that these are really different - high engineered.

[Gilly]

Looking at a 1995 SL600