First time user of this forum. Glad I found it. This is great.

Has anyone installed this in their E500/500E? How did the installation go? Does is perform as advertised? Would you recommend it? What do you know about BergWerks?

Do a serach and you will come up witht he answers that you seek. A number of members (including) myself have had this unit installed. It works better then advertised (if you ask me)

I would recommend having this unit installed.

BTW: I have a 94 E500.

Greetings Tony and welcome!

There's a good number of 500e500 owners on mercedesshop in the SF Bay area and the S Cal area.

How many miles are on your car and how long have you had it? Color?

Mine's a '94 w/ 42.9k. Pearl Black/Black-

best regards
-fad

Thanks -fad

Mine is silver/black w/ 54K miles. I'm the third owner and have owned this one about 3 yrs. Had a '92 500E prior to this.

I can also vouch for the Bergwerks module. Works like a charm. I dunno how I went for so long without first gear start. What's more, Carl's a great guy.

Do you have any pics of your current or previous car?

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1994 E500

I installed mine on the 500E about 3 months ago. It works like a dream ! I cannot recommennd this product highly enough, and the after sales support from Carl is superb . . . .

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1993 190E 2.0L (Euro.) sold
1991. 500 SEL (Euro.)
1991. 300 CE (Euro.) sold
1993. 500 E (U.S. spec.)

Not a 500E but I have a first gear start kit as well. I also have most of the stuff that Bergwerks offer, they are an awesome bunch of guys.

Matt.

I have a RENNtech first gear start valve-body; I highly recommend this mod (regardless of its vendor/flavor).

FYI - I live and work in the East Bay and I'm in SF, frequently.

Welcome to mercedesshop.com!

Greetings, Tony.

Perhaps we can get together sometime.

As you see, -fad and I are two other bay area E500 owners. We have many 500E friends locally as well.

Do you come into the City?

Regards,
Bob

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'94 E500 Anthracite
'92 300E 4Matic (donated to charity)
'90 300TE 4Matic

Maybe we can convince Carl to come to the SLO meet and bring a few units along, for those of us who are "disadvanaged".

Tom
92 500E
PS I live in Marin County.

Tom,

Any idea whose black E500 (not 500E) was in San Rafael on Saturday? I saw it parked on 4th Street.

-fad, that wasn't yours, was it?

Regards,
Bob

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'94 E500 Anthracite
'92 300E 4Matic (donated to charity)
'90 300TE 4Matic

Greetings Bob- no wasn't me.

I was home polishing my new OE wheels!

best regards
-fad

Tom,

How are you "disadvantaged". Going down to Carl's shop is well worth the trip, IMHO. I drove down there for the Bay Area.

Bob-

It would be great to get together. Sounds like a good group of car fanatics! How many E500/500E owners do you know of in the South Bay Area and down the peninsula? I don't make it up to SF as much as I would like.

Tony

I think Tom was referring to those W124-036 types who do not have a 1st gear start solution; he is suggesting Carl bring some units with him to SLO
to perform "field expedient" installations.