It takes a good solid day (8 hours) to remove and install the hydraulics. That
is, a total of two days. It’s not difficult work, but it’s time consuming and
involves removing a lot of trim panels and such.
The guy in Oregon, Klaus of Top Hydraulics, will rebuild the full set of
cylinders and lo
I had a convertible top repair shop guy tell me that if he had one R129 a
month to do he could pay his bills. He said he had done a lot of them
Dan you know about the cylinders in these tops.
Dwight E. Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:28 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
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Not only that, they’ve replaced the soft top just a couple years ago, which is
a major expense and not an easy DIY job. I’ve done it on other cars, but I
don’t think I would do it on an R129.
That’s a heck of a deal for the car.
-D
> On Mar 19, 2020, at 12:38 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
>
Oh yeah it is an R129, haha I didn't look closely, a drive-by look!!!
stupid me. Yeah that would be a really good deal for the last 129.
That job is on my list for the SL600... Have not yet gone topless on it...
--FT
On 3/19/20 12:32 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Very nice and a heck
Very nice and a heck of a deal for someone who wants an R129. One of the final
years and has the “Sport” package, which is fairly rare.
No issues to speak of with these. From the description it has a hydraulic leak
on the left top lock, a real easy one to change and not expensive to have
rebuil
This looks nice, AMG wheels, not a bad price, but were these earlier
models prone to issues? Needs a new top cylinder, probably all at some
point.
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