Wanna buy SLK 230K 2002 Cabrio ANY EXPERIENCE?
 

Hi. I want to buy Mercedes SLK 230 Kompressor 2002 Cabrio with automatic transmission with 70k kilometres (real - just summer car).

I just know MB got problems with reliability in past years. Anyone got experience with this model / year ?

I'm worried cause if autotranny or compressor brokes, it will cost way too much comparing to price of the car today.

Thank You for sharing any experience. It might save me from nightmares :D

1 bump for me :)

Be careful they don't sue you :)

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Mercedez has never had a quality issue. It gives a a good name to german pieces of shit like BMW and porsche.

You're joking right? Mercedes became shit once they were bought by chrysler in 98 or so. The older ones were great and i still see a ton of them rolling around without any issues, and from what i'm hearing the brand new ones are just starting to be decent quality.

If you are hellbent on that car, I would at least hold out for something with a manual transmission.

My girlfriend has a 2004 SLK 200k automatic black/black. This is the newer model and looks better in my opinion (interior and exterior).

It's a very small car and the seats SUCK. I'm tall and my back hurts if I'm sitting too long in the seats. But the automatic hard top ROCKS, we drive it open everyday, today, yesterday - everyday when there's sun. Even if it's cold outside, it's still pretty warm inside the car with the top down if you turn up the heater.

We've never had any problems with the car (my gf put 10k km's on it in a year) but she has the newer model so I'm not sure how it compares to an earlier version.

The engine in the 200k is way too slow in my opinion by the way so I would definitely go for at least a 230k.

The automatic transmission is good (sometimes a bit slow if you floor it, it shifts down a gear or 2 automatically). So I had to get used to that. Overall, it's a cool, small car....especially in the summer and warm nights when you want to go to the beach etc. But I would think twice about it if you're over 1.95m. It just feels crammed if you drive it with a closed roof. It's no problem if you have the top down though.

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Does that your psychiatrist say?

BMWs are very reliable in past decade. Never heard of any problem. Even supersport like M3 CSL works well.

dude, you confused that - it's exactly the opposite

Thanx alot
 

Thank You very much. This is what I call valuable info. Even if Yours is 2004, new model, I think this 2002 might be OK (doesn' have kid problems of new models). New model from 2004 will be quite expensive for me, I like it too but it's more I want to spend on car. Yes, it's small but I don't need bigger cause I don't want kids in next few years. And this car looks great and all I need is one seat for me and one for girl :) No place for kids in my car :D

And seats are somehow tough if You're longer with wide chest. but I'm 176cm/80kg and it fits me well.

Thank You once again.