[R129 SL] My story : SL280 Softtop

[Anil M Seunath]

Gents :

Its been a while since I've looked at the forum which probably means i 
have not had any issues as of late. But i think its a good thing that i 
share my experience on the Softtop issue 
About two years ago i was active on this forum, looking for ways to get my 
softtop to work .. I had similar issues to most of us here.. It was not 
until i got the diagrams from Jan that i started to understand how the 
soft top worked. In short i pulled out all 12 cylinders and had them 
serviced. Now you can't pull all out at once, since the softtop needs to 
move to get access to some. When i say service, i had a local machine shop 
pull apart the cylinder and replace the o-ring. However they never worked 
.. they all leaked since the o-rings were not to spec and there might have 
been slight damage on the shafts. 
So eventually .. i bit the bullet and purchased all 12 cylinders from 
Mercedes Benz in Pompano, FL. It cost about 2,300 usd. Now the soft top 
works near to perfect. I say near to perfect since the toggle switch light 
still blinks all the time and the roll bar light blinks also. Other than 
that .. the movement of the top is like new. My next project is offcourse 
to get the lights to stop blinking. 

Thanks to the Flying Dutchman for all your help 

Anil Seunath
Trinidad W.I. 
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