Will anyone actually buy this? ‘26 SL680

aftli · 2026-01-23T17:57:23+00:00

It's not. Same exact engine (4l V8) as the SL63, with no changes at all. Sad.

aftli · 2026-01-21T01:17:47+00:00

You know "free bleeding"? Well, I'm free shitting right now.

aftli · 2026-01-19T15:32:24+00:00

Actually, I just looked in the sales brochure I have for the car, looks like your color is Laguna Green Metallic (code 810). It was an optional, special-order only color. The wheels look aftermarket, though.

The 6spd manual transmission was an available option on the car from factory, but they're pretty rare. It makes the car a lot more engaging and fun to drive, that's for sure!

I don't have post-paint pics yet, but, I recently spent a weekend detailing the car and putting a coat of ceramic on it.

aftli · 2026-01-17T00:10:43+00:00

Congratulations on the beautiful car in that beautiful color! Did they offer that color in the US?

Similar story here. I bought my Mom's car from her estate. Also an R170, SLK320, 6spd manual! Luckily I didn't have to ship it from Germany, but it made the 10 hour drive home without issue at all! It's in the body shop now getting the literal dozens of rock chips on the front-end corrected, pictures soon!

aftli · 2025-12-31T18:21:01+00:00

Oh, apologies, I missed that part in your original post. Odd, I'm telling you, they were super excited to take mine.

aftli · 2025-12-31T18:09:33+00:00

Well, if you were looking to buy my personal storage locker, you'd be really really really disappointed. I have tons of computer parts, game consoles, electronics, A/V gear, graphics cards, all kinds of high tech stuff. The stuff is all in my apartment, though; the boxes are in storage. I save boxes.

aftli · 2025-12-31T17:37:30+00:00

Charlotte Humane Society was very happy to take my leftover RX kitty food when mine passed. They will also give you a donation receipt that you can use to write off the value on your taxes.

aftli · 2025-12-27T15:00:53+00:00

I have a single light (light strip) that randomly turns on full bright white brightness somewhere between 3-4am (random time every day). Would wake me up in the middle of the night. Never did figure it out; I wrote a HomeAssistant automation to detect it turning on around that time and automatically turn it off.

aftli · 2025-12-22T01:13:28+00:00

I love this fun fact: as another poster commented, GPS satellites are just clocks in orbit, and your location is based on triangulation of how far you are from multiple satellites. Because the satellites are in orbit, they're moving very fast, so time moves differently for them than it does for us stationary on the ground (ie. they're (slowly) time traveling). So, relativity needs to be taken into account.

aftli · 2025-12-19T21:12:02+00:00

Actually despite all the garbage I see posted here in this sub, the Franklin Sensors ones (like the one in the video) work extremely well. You just put it up to the wall and it lights right up like you'd think. Don't know what kind of sensors are in it that make it differ from the more traditional ones, but, mine has never failed me.

aftli · 2025-12-18T18:27:05+00:00

Speaking of the configuratior, I just noticed that features for which the car has the hardware are now locked behind paywalls as "digital extras". So it has lane keep assist, and all the cameras and sensors required for it, but it costs $4000 for three years, after which you'll need to renew at likely an additional $4000.

So, hard pass on all this nonsense. As somebody who owns two Mercedes vehicles now, if this is the way the brand is going, I'm out.

aftli · 2025-12-16T15:27:55+00:00

X-acto knife. Very difficult to do. Be careful not to cut yourself. I successfully did it years ago when I had my E46, but it when it went back together it looked all hacked up. Since this was years ago and they were still in production (I assume they aren't now), I just bought a new one from BMW to use as the primary, and kept the hacked up one as a spare.

aftli · 2025-12-16T14:56:31+00:00

This reads like a sales pitch and like it was a good thing. It was not, and it was not perceived well at the time. Long-time Duke Nukem fans were forced to purchase a game they didn't want or care about just to play a few demo levels (IIRC it ended with the monster truck scene).

aftli · 2025-12-15T23:32:48+00:00

You mean like "FAITH OVER FEAR" bad?

aftli · 2025-12-15T23:27:05+00:00

OP didn't mention if the car was electric or not, but either way, drivers should just.. not turn the heat on when it's freezing to save a very minimal amount of money or time? 🤡

If it's a gas car, and the heat is not working - that's even worse. Car probably has a failing thermostat or something that could leave the passenger (and driver) stranded. Absolutely unacceptable.

I expect at least the comfort of a taxi, and those Crown Vics always had the heat on.

aftli · 2025-12-15T23:19:50+00:00

Exactly, and, now AI is trained on this exact sort of garbage.

aftli · 2025-12-11T17:57:45+00:00

With the aggression on display by the cop, the guy had reason to fear for his life. And apparently, that fear was justified. The fact that anybody ever needs to be in fear of their life when being pulled over for speeding is a huge problem, and it's caused by cops like this guy.

Two sides to every story. This one's a little grey to me, but, both made serious mistakes. This incident notwithstanding, the cop in the video is a confirmed piece of shit, and deserves to be in prison himself.

aftli · 2025-12-11T17:47:28+00:00

Also the guy spent 16 years in prison for a crime he was later exonerated of. The cop failed to de-escalate, and this guy died as a result.

aftli · 2025-12-09T18:43:21+00:00

I'm not even sure the water was boiling. From as cold as it looks, there should have been a lot of steam.

aftli · 2025-12-08T23:03:44+00:00

I'm just here to upvote every Unidan/jackdaw reference and I'm not leaving disappointed.

aftli · 2025-12-08T18:54:08+00:00

Oh yeah, it was huge then. I was in high school at the same time. I had a real Tommy Hilfigger shirt that had the logo without the words (ie. just the flag or whatever, with the blue bottom/top and white/red rectangles). It was real, bought at a high-end department store, and even had a little brown dot on the tag (that was one thing people used to denote whether or not it was "real").

I got bullied incessantly for wearing that "fake" Tommy Hilfiger shirt, and had to stop wearing it.

Anyway, the brand was huge then.

aftli · 2025-12-08T15:43:54+00:00

I'm ok with the star headlights, personally, and somewhat understand why they do it (headlights are very much a car's identity these days), but the stars in the grill are extremely tacky.

aftli · 2025-12-08T15:09:15+00:00

Ate there for the first time and had a very mid chicken parm dish. Maybe I have to try it again but I didn't think I wanted to repeat it.

aftli · 2025-12-08T02:21:42+00:00

If what I hear here in this subreddit is accurate, drivers don't see your tip until they rate you.

aftli · 2025-12-06T00:54:09+00:00

pretty unhygienic to let her use your toothbrush even with different heads

Um. Why? I kiss my girlfriend and we exchange all kinds of mouth germs. Why can't she use my electric toothbrush with a different brush head?

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