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If you said “I hate both equally!” then man oh man does Bring a Trailer have a perfect vehicle for you. Presenting a 2007 R63 AMG that needs a good detail and a new torque converter. According to the seller, his MB dealer said they would need to replace the entire transmission at the great cost of $9,000.
Edit: Forgot to say it has 127k miles too
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Absolutely positively undoubtedly unquestionably, no. No thank you.
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CP. Sure, it’s a unicorn, but a family hauler shouldn’t be a reliability gamble.
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I may be at the “I own 3 British vehicles” level of hate, but even I have limits. ALL my fucking nopes. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
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NP for me. I’m a healthy crackhead.
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can you transport all the notes in your 3 vehicles?
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just a little crack goes a long way
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White is rare on these, I think.
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Obligatory Demuro “Quirks and Features” video
Why am I STILL in the grays? A King deserves better
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maybe you’re not an author here? Doug needs to buy this to match his E63
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I feel like my love for doing uneconomic repairs on unreliable, painful to own vehicles is well documented and I still vote CP.
Neat car, but (A) if the torque converter/ transmission is dead, I assume this was due to neglect by the owner. What other problems lurk from deferred maintenance? And (B) even if you fix it, you’ll still have a pretty ugly minivan, albeit a fast one.
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the seller states the car still drives well, but has rough shifts in “sport mode”..which MB then said its the torque converter.
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Does my car give me credentials to become an Oppo Author tho?
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I can, yes. Two of them have a fairly high GVW.
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Totally, but you’d have to find a mod to make you an author. Despite my name, I don’t have supreme power :(
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Yeah, sorry. Didn’t notice that at first. I wonder what led them to that conclusion? One would assume the first step would be to do a fluid and filter change before jumping to replacing the transmission. Maybe drop the pan and look for lost friction material.
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Look at how rough that thing is around the edges. It has as many paint flaws as my WJ, and I drive it through the woods. My wheels are in better shape, too.
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I’ve seen this car! I used to see it often when I lived in NC!
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You are out of the grays. You have commenting privileges but not authorship yet.
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Woohoo! Thanks!
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You’re welcome. Once you have a bit of commenting history, find an authorship request post if you want to be an author here.
So is that your car?
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Not mine. Found on the interwebs. He’s quite the character , the Altima is surely his old car
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Darn, I was hoping that you were him. I have so many questions.
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You can tweet him, lol https://twitter.com/othellograham
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more like bring a basket amirite?
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I’m genuinely interested and will try to buy it if the price stays low enough. When I get back to the shop from lunch I’m going to pull up history and the trans diagnosis if they uploaded it. These transmissions are stupid easy to take apart. If I do buy it though I’ll be selling the E55. Which would be bittersweet.
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If you bid and buy it, please make an Oppo series on it. We would all love you
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Im definitely watching it. Series though? A few posts at least for sure!
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I think he means can you, right now, do this. Not, do you theoretically have the ability to.
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Godspeed sir, and good luck! In my limited experience, bring a trailer buyers have some kind of vitamin deficiency that causes them to routinely pay 10-30% over market value for literally everything.
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That they do! But this is an AMG, so perhaps they’ve heard some crazy horror stories!
Update: it’s already over what I could pay for it right now, so I’m talking to our mutual friend to see if he wants to go in on it with me.
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Nice! I think there’s some money to be made on it if it stays below $20k, but this is BAT so anything can happen :p
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I was thinking the same. 15 should be safe, but 20 would be the limit.
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That thing is perfect for an AMG tech. All others should GTFO
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Go tell all the other bidders!
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Lol. Good luck and tell us all about it when you win! Would make a great story!
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When!? Seems unlikely
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does it need head bolts though?