[R129 SL] RE: R129LIST Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2
Jan Kuylaars
jan at rian-bv.nl
Thu Nov 9 11:46:19 EST 2006
My experience is that you must dry the soft top for two-three days and
then get it into the compartment.
Place the hardtop and leave it there till the weather is good, say 20
degrees Celsius.
Then remove the hardtop and restore the soft top on place.
I read the instruction manual in the beginning what say that it was best
to open some times the soft top during winter
Period to let the moister out. So I did what the manual say. My car was
stored in a garage and the temperature was about
5 degrees Celsius. Before the soft top was open, I heard a loud bang ,
and the soft top stops with opening.
I get out the car and see that both plastic side windows were damaged
and broken into 2 pieces. The big window had two small cuts on both
sides. I warmed up the windows with a hairdryer before I could get the
soft top back in the storage compartment. In the spring I opened the
soft top again and noticed that the plastic become very hard and
breakable.
I put in al new plastic windows for 350 euro, the new windows were soft
and easy folding. After coming out you can see the linings from the
material is pressing down into the plastic. In the beginning I was
afraid the windows will be broken again. This time because it looks to
me that the thickness was less than original. But that was not the
issue.
With new windows or soft top the plastic is soft enough to bow without
cracking by low temperature. After some years the plastic becomes hard
en yellow. I have seen a lot of these soft tops on other cars, and
always with some small cracks in
The side windows.
So the best is to leave it alone completely during winter season, and if
you don't have a hardtop, leave the soft top always up and stretched.
Flying Dutchmen 500 SL.
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1. fake (mwillnow at lightspeed.net)
2. RE: winter storage for rear plastic window (Clay Woodward)
3. Re: RE: winter storage for rear plastic window (Victor R. Lopez)
4. (no subject) (Phil Carbone)
5. Engine Problems (Phil Carbone)
6. Re: Engine Problems (Victor R. Lopez)
7. Re: Engine Problems (Satish Tummala)
8. Re: Engine Problems (Marc A. Fishman)
9. Re: Engine Problems (Phil Carbone)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:59:56 +0200
From: mwillnow at lightspeed.net
Subject: [R129 SL] fake
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:25:38 -0400
From: "Clay Woodward" <clay500 at msn.com>
Subject: [R129 SL] RE: winter storage for rear plastic window
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I recently purchased a 99 sl500 , live in Ohio and am wondering with the
cold winter weather here what would be best for the plastic rear window
of
my soft top while it will be stored this winter in my detached unheated
garage. Im thinking maybe it would be better to keep hard top off and
have
soft top up so the plastic would not be folded up all winter if it were
down. Thanks for any replies.
Clay W.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Victor R. Lopez" <vrlopez254 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [R129 SL] RE: winter storage for rear plastic window
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I've done a couple of things in the past and they both seem to work. The
first is I clean the canvas and the plastic with a cleaner restorer.
Make sure you let the top dry for a few days, just to make sure its
completly dry. I then take a couple of big beach towel and role it so
it's seven-eight inch round. I'll lay it across the plastic window so it
covers the window left to right. I'll lift the top to to point the back
section starts to flip up. I then tuck the towel into the crease (sp) of
the window about the middle has it starts to fold completely into the
compartment I carefully guide the towel into place as the top starts to
close. The towel keeps the plastic somewhat stretched around the towel.
It also helps to have someone help with the top coming down. The other
is I keep the hard top off under a top cover on a rolling rack in the
garage. I keep the canvas top up and I'll lay a couple thick moving
blankets over the body and cover the whole vehicle with a fitted
breathable top. Either way I wont move the top up or down until mid
march early april. Works for me. I'm sure there guys out there that have
a better way.
1999 sl500 sport 35k
1991 348 ts Ferrari 30k
1991 Jeep Wrangle 185K Takes a lick'n and keeps on tick'n
Victor
Clay Woodward <clay500 at msn.com> wrote:
I recently purchased a 99 sl500 , live in Ohio and am wondering with
the
cold winter weather here what would be best for the plastic rear window
of
my soft top while it will be stored this winter in my detached unheated
garage. Im thinking maybe it would be better to keep hard top off and
have
soft top up so the plastic would not be folded up all winter if it were
down. Thanks for any replies.
Clay W.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:17:29 -0600
From: "Phil Carbone" <philcarbone55 at comcast.net>
Subject: [R129 SL] (no subject)
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Has anybody had problems with gaskets and oil in the alternator?
Phil Carbone
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:20:18 -0600
From: "Phil Carbone" <philcarbone55 at comcast.net>
Subject: [R129 SL] Engine Problems
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Has anybody had problems with gaskets and oil in the alternator?
Phil Carbone
97 SL600
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:23:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Victor R. Lopez" <vrlopez254 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [R129 SL] Engine Problems
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nope, had small leak that showed up on the metal plug covers but nothing
like that.
Phil Carbone <philcarbone55 at comcast.net> wrote: Has anybody
had problems with gaskets and oil in the alternator?
Phil Carbone
97 SL600
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:46:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Satish Tummala" <satish at tummala.net>
Subject: Re: [R129 SL] Engine Problems
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Usually from the valve cover gaskets, head gaskets, or the front timing
cover leaking oil into the alternator.
> Has anybody had problems with gaskets and oil in the alternator?
>
> Phil Carbone
> 97 SL600The MB Coupes Website!
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:24:54 -0500
From: "Marc A. Fishman" <marc at mfishlaw.com>
Subject: Re: [R129 SL] Engine Problems
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The is the man with all answers! Hope all is well.
Marc A. Fishman
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:41:10 -0600
From: "Phil Carbone" <philcarbone55 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [R129 SL] Engine Problems
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What kind of answers?
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The is the man with all answers! Hope all is well.
Marc A. Fishman
3000 Town Center, Suite 1350
Southfield. Michigan 48075
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