[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by greglepore

IDK. They're gorgeous. But the interior plastics are brittle, and your alternative now is 3d stuff. Nice, pricey. Soft tops are a thing of the past. Your 55 roof is better. The hyd issues are the same, but doing the fabric on the 129, well, just watch the Mercedes oem video on youtube. Its like 20 hrs. My fabric is great but I opened the top once at 40 degrees and one window split, f me. Don't ever jump start the car under any circumstances without defusing a bunch of stuff, also learned the hard way.
I'd really rather have an AMG 63 at this point, but it'll be where my 129 is in 8-10 years, and I'd be almost 80 and too feeb to do anything about it.

After spending a lot of time working on the R230 SL55, I can tell you that a lot of improvements were made throughout the life of the R230. I feel like my R230 SL63 was a much better made car, and there were a lot of improvements made to the ABC suspension and other components over the life of the model. The SL55 is going to my son eventually, and I’ll be looking for a late SL63 with the P030 Performance Package to replace it. Unless I find a good deal on an SL65 and then all bets are off.