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View Poll Results: How many MILES do you do a year in your SL? | |||
Less than 2000 | 3 | 8.57% | |
between 2 and 5 thousand | 20 | 57.14% | |
between 5 and 15 thousand | 10 | 28.57% | |
more than 15 thousand | 2 | 5.71% | |
Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll |
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How much do you drive your SL?
I have followed many posts here and am intrigued at the mileage that some people have on their cars. They vary from just a few thousand to hundreds of thousands.
So I thought I would ask the question, how many miles/kms do you put on your car in a year, and how many miles does it have? I have only owned my 92 SL500 for 14 months but put up 10,000 kms (6000 miles), and it now has 58,000 KM (35,000 miles) FYI I am in the process of changing this over for a 94 SL600. I know fuel prices are a concern but this car will be my main drive because 1) I LOVE driving the SL and 2) I cant see the logic in owning another car just to keep one car younger.
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Regards Vince Alfonso (in Hong Kong) 92 MB 600 SEL 94 MB 600 SL 92 MB 500 SL (for sale) 93 BMW 740i |
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I've called it 2-5K, though it might go a little higher depending on the year. It's my main drive in the summer. I'm absolutely with you--it's too good to leave in the garage--but I won't expose it to our winter salt around here.
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Craig Bethune '97 SL500, 40th anniversary edition '04 Olds Bravada (SWMBO's) '06 Lexus ES330 '89 560SL (sold) SL--Anything else is just a Mercedes. (Kudos to whoever said it first) |
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I store my "87 560 in the winter. In the summer I drive it only in nice weather on weekends or weekday evenings. This car is our toy,and we do take it for a ride in the countryside on occasion.It's fun going topless in the summer breeze.
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Hi All
I put about 4k a year, mostly in the spring and summer. I have 88k on the clock. So far only had two decent top down days and I spilt the driving between the SL and the E Cab-63k The daily driver is a 94E320-64k. Happy driving. joe moon
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Just got the SL inspected. I drove just over 4000 last year.
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Bruce Hat 2000 ML320 50K miles 1997 Jaquar XJ6 41K miles 1992 300SL 70K miles - Mint 1995 E320 Wagon 105K miles "Sold" - 10-6-04 1998 E320 "Totalled" - 1-14-04 If you want to know how crooked a stick is, just lay a straight one next to it. It's not the tall sails that bring a ship to the port of destination, but the unseen wind. Uncle's quote to me at 12 yrs old "Why walk when you can Bogaloo" |
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Re: How much do you drive your SL?
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We have 3 between my wife and I, and each time we go out it's for a different purpose. - The SL500 is mine for solo city trips (non rain only). - The Jag is when we both go out and take someone else out as well (all weather) or when I need to go out in rain. - My wife drives her SLK to work each day (all weather), which is only a couple of kilometers away. We mesh quite well, and probably put on only 20-100kms a car each week. Now all we need is an SUV for when it rains or for carrying something big home, or for lending out. I had a 91 Honda Accord station wagon for that purpose which I lent out to close friends and family on odd occasions. That's gone to my daughter now. And I have a friend--an exMercedes dealer who is now a property investor--who bought a couple of cheap Japanese cars so he can lend to his friends when they visit from overseas. It saves them hiring a rental car. What a nice thought! Ken Silver -------------- ~1993 SL500, glistening triple black, xenons: http://www.kensilver.com/SL ~1999 SLK 230 Kompressor, silver /black, CD, immaculate (my wife's) ~1991 Jaguar Daimler, shiny grey / grey leather, best in country! ~ex 350SL, 230E, 280E, MX5 and a lot of other makes not nearly as nice. |
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I now drive our '83 380SL daily to work (except during snow season) as my wife has fallen in love with our '95 C280, leading to our "swapping " vehicles, which is perfectly fine with me . I'll probably put about 5K miles on it yearly since work is near and we usually drive the C class when we go out. The SL now has 160K on it and is a joy to drive.
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1983 380SL 1995 C280 1995 S500 coupe 1990 Mazda Miata 2004 Suzuki Hayabusa |
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When the 560sl was my only car, I put about 12k on it per year. Now that it's the second car, it only gets 2k, but they're the best miles of the year.
David |
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Would have to agree with Ken. I consider myself very fortunate to be the owner of three Benzes at the same time. I love all three and use the TE for the daily driver. My wife only puts around 5 to 6 K a year on the 400,,, my old car,,, and I put around 5 to 6K on the wagon. The SL might get the most use, as I drive it when the weather gets better and put it away in November or so. I don't like driving the SL when bad weather threatens, and use a car cover at work to keep the UV's from getting to it. The Ram pickup does an excellent job of hauling whatever.
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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K 07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K 02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K 05 F150 Silver 44K |
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I drive "Dieter" every seven days alternating with the Volvo V70 Cross Country. I love both cars and both have very different characteristics, however, I noticed that the SL has virtually no squeaks, rattles, scraping sounds whenever I drive it as compared to the Cross Country. It just goes to show the great quality in a ten year old car that cost about as much as a townhouse back in 1994.
The driving average is about 5-6K per year for each vehicle.
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'94 SL500 Tourmaline Green, 120K miles as of February 27, 2005. http://home.earthlink.net/~boudreaux...ictures/17.jpg Updated photo September 2004 |
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