![]() ![]() Several solutions were posted there, the most useful of which is give the right front corner of the top a sharp smack with your fist.which actually works. In the meantime my son found a stream about the problem on the MB forum. They hooked me up with an appointment on my return trip to Wyoming to evaluate the problem. I bought the car As Is with no warranty of any kind but gave Mercedes Benz Omaha a call anyway. ![]() The trunk opens and moves forward to receive the top.but nothing other than the whirring of the hydraulics obviously trying to do something. In the morning I discovered that the convertible top would not fully retract. I drove it to Cedar Falls, IA that evening. I rented a car, drove to Omaha and the dealership was very accommodating, picking me up in Council Bluffs for a late evening car pickup. This particular car is a one previous owner 2001 SLK 230, barrillo red. I bought the car over the phone and never saw anything but pictures before I picked it up. The search took me two months and I finally found what I was looking for at Mercedes Benz Omaha. What are you thinking when you order a 2 seater sports car with an automatic transmission? I find that mystifying. I've discovered that only about 10 percent of these have manual transmissions. The R170 version of the SLK was only made from 1998 through 2004, averaging about 10,000 US versions each year. I live in the Rockies and the mountain folk aversion to rwd vehicles is near legendary so my search took me well out of my area. ![]() Having just three owners from new, the Mercedes-Benz has a recorded mileage (at time of consignment) of 119,225 miles.The experience put me in the market for a replacement. The rare Designo edition features the original Designo interior floor mats with Yellow stitching, and roll-over bar with a Designo finish, as well as being specified new with heated front seats, a high-capacity battery and an adjustable steering column. Fitted with the 2298cc straight-four M111 supercharged engine allied to the five-speed automatic transmission, the SLK is finished in the striking colour combination of Yellowstone with Yellow Designo interior and body-colour retracting hard-top. Manufactured in 1998, the SLK 230 offered was supplied new to the United Kingdom, being first registered on the 17 th of November that year. At the touch of a button on the centre console, a hydraulic system controls the fully automatic folding process in which the boot lid is also integrated. The roof design consists of a folding steel hardtop with both halves linked by a mechanism that is locked securely when the roof is closed. Massively successful in its first year, worldwide sales hit 55,000, over double the entire nine-year production of 190 SLs and between 19, over 311,000 SLKs were sold. By late 1991, under Bruno Sacco, the first design sketches were drawn, with scale models being built in the first half of 1992. Reputedly previously in the ownership of a relation of the Lotus founder, Colin ChapmanĪt the start of the 1990s, after the introduction of their two-seat grand-tourer, the R129 SL, the launch of the Mazda MX-5 encouraged Mercedes-Benz set out to create a new compact roadster, slotted below the SL.Striking colour combination of Yellowstone.Black and Yellow Designo interior with original Designo features.Only two former keepers from new and current registered ownership from 2004. ![]()
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