Introducing The Ultimate Daily Driver Build!

I've recently acquired a flood car from a 2004 Mercedes S55 AMG, which includes front bumper side skirts rear bumper and hood. The car also had issues with its headlights, which are now being replaced as part of my plan to refurbish the vehicle. People have been complaining that I haven't cleaned my headlights in a while, and it's because I'm replacing them.

I've decided to vinyl wrap this entire car, something I've never done before but feel confident about given my garage's cool conditions thanks to the frigid air conditioner. However, I'm aware that there's a risk of having two disparate colors on the door jams if I don't take steps to mitigate it. To achieve a satin pearl finish in blue, which is close to midnight blue, I've searched for advice and experience from others who have done similar jobs.

I want to make sure that the vinyl wrap looks good on this car, especially with its thick bumpers and side skirts. I plan to get new wheels as well, opting for 20-inch concave wheels with not too huge tires, considering it's Florida and there aren't many potholes around. I also intend to do some repairs that this car desperately needs.

One of the issues I'm addressing is a crank pulley problem common to every Mercedes W221 engine due to the rubber layer on the pulley disintegrating over time. The pulley itself has been eating away, and I'll have to take it apart and replace it with a new one. To do this, I need the correct tool and some basic mechanical skills. After installing the new crank pulley, hopefully, my engine will be as smooth as silk.

I'm aware that this project won't be completed overnight due to the time-consuming nature of repairs and modifications, but I'm excited about the final result and eager to get started. With a little bit of patience and elbow grease, I'll transform my car from a flood-battered vehicle into a sleek and modern ride that reflects my own unique style.

I've taken steps to organize my workspace with a batch of DIY storage solutions and have been working on this project in my garage, which provides the necessary conditions for me to focus. As always, I invite readers to like, comment, and subscribe to my channel, where they can stay up-to-date with my progress and join in on conversations about cars and modifications.

I've noticed that some of you are eager to share your own experiences with vinyl wrapping, which is why I'm asking for any advice or feedback on this project. Additionally, please feel free to share any questions or comments you may have; it's an essential part of my content creation process.

Lastly, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has supported me so far through likes and subscriptions – your support means a great deal to me, and I'm grateful for every single one of you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to another lovely day I know I haven't done one of these in a little while but that all changes today because I'm actually starting a new series in which I take that car behind you my mercedes-benz s 540,000 and I turned that into what I'd like to call the ultimate daily driver now I daily drive this thing all the time right now and actually I mean over two years it's gotten a little bit I'm not going to say more unreliable but it has been you know there have been a few issues namely after I did my little towing experiment I realized that the car now leaks a bit of oil so I'm gonna let you look at it not the bugs going to my face but I'm going to let you look at see this is my garage floor and you can notice a few things all these oil stains so this is oil and that is automatic transmission fluid neither of which is good for the car so what I'm going to do by the way before I get into that this is not dirt these are bugs so when I first did this tour I had just these huge gaps like right here and right there and these bugs were coming in I had the whole garage professionally cleaned and about two days later I had no lie like ten million bucks so I had to get creative I just went to Home Depot I got a bunch of like sealant and I got expanding foam and I sealed the hell out of this garage door and now no bugs are coming through other than you know these are validly trying but I don't think any of them really really got through I do need to wow this is a good million maybe more who knows what whatever that's it's not important right now so this is the car this as my viewers will know is my 2000 Marseille DS Benz S 500 it's perfectly fine there's nothing super wrong with it but it does need maintenance and I do want to make it a little more user friendly for for daily driving I mean it does look a little bit dated and it's not exactly what I'd call the ultimate daily driver I think this car has a lot of potential in it and especially for the price I paid I got this thing for 3 grand so I'm gonna do a series in which I repair this car I modify it and then I make it into something just absolutely special so today I'm just going to do a quick diagnosis of what this car needs and maybe maybe a quick repair too but I think right now the main thing is just going to be these so what I think is a problem with this automatic transmission fluid I think that might be just a seal on its a connector like an electronic connector so I ordered a new one of those and this I have no idea what that is so I'll have to do it diagnose that but for now I will put that car in here and as you can see I have my little portable a/c working and I don't actually have all my tools I got some tools in this little makeshift cracks at the craftsman toolbox but I did order a whole new cabinet set and I have like some Harbor Freight stuff coming but all my tools are still in the trailer so hopefully all the tools that I need to change all this stuff is in my little toolbox so fingers crossed on that all right now that I got the car in the air I am going to let you see under it well actually this is my first time looking under the car and you guys can join me so I'm a little LED light everything here is just stuff I bought at Harbor Freight except for this thing of water on Amazon no I'm not sponsored by Harbor Freight okay actually you know what I'm gonna get off of this creeper because I don't have that much room slide under here okay so get a little bit of better light so that's the oil pan for the automatic transmission and I'm not sure where it's you can see right there there's a there's an oil leak now I have to pinpoint where it's coming from doesn't look like it's leaking on to the exhaust or anything like that I mean the general condition of the underside it's it's good there's no rust anywhere but yeah I have to all right that's probably not great I'm hoping that's not my rear main seal and I'm hoping it's just a valve cover or something gasket that's leaking down there because if it is a rear main seal that is a huge problem okay I'm gonna try to pinpoint where this or this connector is supposed to be okay now I have actually found it it was a little bit hard to find but yeah this is definitely the source of my automatic transmission fluid leak you can see that this is the the connector here there was like a little bit of a shielding panel here I just took that out with a Torx bit and if you look around here there's it's all clean and automatic transmission fluid is actually a solvent it will if you ever look inside like a mattock transmission it's usually spotless like these things clean very very well so this is all clean and you can tell the rest is a rest of my car is a bit dirtier for the wear it as a daily driver but this is definitely where the leak was coming from so what I'm going to need to do is I'm going to need to take off this connector I think some fluid is going to come out I'm going to catch that and then there's two o-rings within this connector that I should replace what I'm replacing the entire thing and if anybody wants to figure out how to do it I'm going to show you how and the part is I believe it's like seven dollars and it's an OEM Mercedes part it's pretty simple to replace I think it's just a pull off and and push back on there might be a bolt involved but uh let's check it out well I hit my first snag because I don't actually have the socket that I need to take this out I'm sure I have the socket somewhere in my big-ass toolbox in my trailer I'm going to have to go digging for it but I'm just going to let you see what I'm what it is I'm dealing with so this is the new part all right so there's two o-rings right here one and two and the ones on my car they're probably really perished engine just leaking whatever massive fluid but if you look inside there's a little you see that I don't know if you can focus yeah so there's a little looks like a seven millimeter or it's definitely not an eight because an eight is too big and I don't have any seven millimeters on hand and since this is the only car I have I can't do a tool run so I'm gonna have to go digging for tools in my trailer but I won't do that right now what I'm going to do right now is address something that a few of you guys have clued me into well it's it's something that I was supposed to do a while back when I did my air suspension my air aye sir fix so I removed my wheel now some people have been complaining about that I didn't didn't show how to remove the wheel just take off some lug nuts that's basically it but um remove the wheel remove this this splash guard and here is the the new air compressor and what I did when I first installed it this whole thing the mount was broken and I welded on a new bolt and it was supposed to give it you know a little bit of it this is supposed to have a little bit of play but to play here it's way more you can see it's it's going up a lot and see if I can shine the light on there and the play here it's almost non-existent just because these threads are all broken so what I did is I got a new one all right so this installs with one two three bolts and I'm going to be installing it right there I'm just going to do that quickly so you guys can see that this is moving along somewhat even if I don't have the right tools for it I think these are just tens well these are definitely tens because I installed tens there and then those are I don't know they probably look like twelves or 13:13 probably because it's a German car after all okay so here is the offending article now this is not exactly falling apart but you can see if there's a lot of surface rust and you can take a look at this I mean there's like see if I can get that to focus come on come on there Wow this is taking forever yeah there's like three threads just on this thing and they're rusty and yeah that's not it's not gonna be very good but this is not a new part but it's in very good shape and you can see all those little guys all those threads that are supposed to be this does not like to focus in on blacks that's not it a little in sensor but this part is going in now VDS otto dismantler warranty void above a black who cares so this is going in now and i think i have some new hardware to put on here and let's see if we can't make this operate as intended okay so this is a bit of a win I got everything tightened and I actually might need a new mount right here like there's these little sort of bull I don't know how to explain it they're bolts but they also have like a little tube in the middle and they basically space out these two sections and this one is fine I got a new spring for this side and the other Springs are fine but these might be a little little small so if this starts making a rattling sound then I'll not only to replace the back to over there but it is mounted right now should be fine I don't think any sounds any any errant behavior should be coming from this unit but another bit of good news I will show you what the situation is with this alright so I took out took out the actual connector so this is what connects to the ECU and this was kind of saturated in the automatic trans fluid but if you look at the connector right here look now scared if you look at the connector right here I do have to take out that seven millimeter I'll just put a socket in there unscrew it take this out and I'll note the orientation of this because otherwise I don't think it's going to go in the same way but yeah I'll just take this out and put the new one in and we'll compare the two alright this is extremely uncomfortable but I took out this connector now yeah this is a little bit worse for the wear I'm gonna kind of slide myself out of here we're going to we're going to compare it whoops to the where's that new okay so here's a new one next to the old one and see right away the o-ring has just become I don't know it seems like really fattened and seems more squidgy this one is a little bit smaller and yeah I guess you can see that lots of fluid has been making it past this and it is a common failure point on the 72 2.6 transmissions these are the five speed transmissions for Mercedes and they they put them in everything from like the 350 models to the 600 models so yeah if you have a transmission fluid leak it's likely this part let me put this back in there I'm going to clean up the transmission a little bit the transmission side clean that up and then install this and hopefully we should be good to go okay now what I'm going to show you is basically the finished product of me fixing this automatic transmission fluid leak and also a few things I found about that oil that I mentioned before so going back under here again not a lot of space I can't wait until I get my lift I put the brand new connector right there cleaned it up and everything's looking pretty pretty tidy other than this obvious oil leak now I was really scared because this kind of look like a rear main seal leak and the rear main seal is a seal that goes around basically the crankshaft and it connects to the transmission transmission would have to come out and yeah it's a I'm not going to say it's a common problem but it's it's a problem that would it's in enough of these cars that it gets to be concerning around this mileage however there's a little access port here and you can feel around with your finger and if if it is the rear main seal I should be able to put my finger in here well that looks a little erotic I should be able to put my finger in there and this should be just doused with oil and I'm feeling around and there's nothing really in there I mean it's a little bit dirty but it's it's not doused with oil like like this is so remain seal is fine and if I look let me see if I can get this on camera like you can see that there's more caked on oil coming up from here so the oil problem it's going somewhere up there so if I look into the engine bay hello if I look into the engine bag let me get some light actually I can't see crap let me see if I can maybe something coming from the front of the engine I mean there's definitely some signs of weeping from a bad install of the valve cover you can see that RTV that red RTV just everywhere so I'm going to have to redo that but I can't see anything that's necessarily egregious but I will have to look further um but that automatic trans fluid leak is gone I don't know why I'm looking down there it's not like it's going to be leaking anytime soon what I need to do now is I have a dipstick might as well might as well get the dipstick okay for any of you that have a Mercedes especially of my vintage you'll notice that the automatic transmission does not come with a stock dipstick now I bought this one I think it was like 26 bucks and it it is just a aftermarket dipstick and I don't know why they didn't come with them but the hole is right here there's an access port for it just this little plug take that out and then you basically put the dipstick mmm yeah you put it down there and I'm not going to do it right now because the garage door is closed and I don't want to kill myself but he's supposed to have the car on and get it up to temperature around 80 degrees Celsius and this dipstick has these markings let's see if we can get in on that well it's on the other side all right so you have 80 degrees Celsius so it should be between there and there and this is 25 degrees Celsius so that is basically cold when the car just starts up and then the hydraulic fluid expands and it should be right here under operating temperature my car was having a problem where this after a while would just you know operating temperature were just it wouldn't even register on the scale and I would have to put in a lot a lot a lot of fluid just to get it up to here and I did that right before the move and I think that the extra pressure or the extra strain of the trailer just kind of did this thing in and just started spewing automatic transmission fluid but I think it should be fine now I think I do have the special trans fluid by the way if you want to fill up a Mercedes you need fluid that's called mag one na g - one but a good reader viewer listener know yeah somebody just clued me into this you can its Valvoline max life full synthetic ATF and it works for Mercedes and you know that by looking back here and I wish if I wish my my hands could work right here it says Mercedes Benz na g1 Mercedes Benz for their fluid wants something crazy I think it's like fifty dollars per gallon or it might might even be more but this is just your regular sort of ATF and it works fabulously so just get a bunch of extra gallons or quarts or whatever you have this is in Walmart I think it's like I want to say fifteen to twenty bucks a gallon so these are just absolute lifesavers I do also have some mobile one 0w forty just in case I haven't had to use this yet but I will be doing an oil change and I have to get more of this and an oil filter but I think for now that's about it as you can see the car is just taken apart I will be doing let's see I have brakes for this car which are which is in those boxes I have will have to do brakes front and rear and the really big issue that I just figured out is a suspension now I do have new suspension but if I can get light in here because everything is kind of like in in bad shape but it's it's serviceable what isn't serviceable let's see if I can get back here hey see what isn't serviceable is this right here see if I can get that yeah this is bad news so this should be a boot and there should be grease in there this is completely dry and this is what was squeaking anytime somebody got in my car anytime the suspension no just went up and down this was sleeping a lot and this overtime can just snap off and we do not want that so what I'm going to do is since I do have the part I'm going to install it but I don't have the ball joint this is a ball joint by the way I don't have the ball joint removal tool from Mercedes well the specialized Mercedes part Mercedes tool I did buy it it's on its way from England but for now the car is gonna sit and since it's my only car I'm gonna have to get a rental car so yeah I don't know when that's going to come in but for now I'm going to just do some some more work around the car and I will have a sort of overall plan for this and I'll clue you into that now I want this car to be just the best daily driver that you can get for any amount of money just um obviously there's going to be more cars there's going to be cars with more tech nology and probably better fuel economy and maybe more comfort but I want this to have everything I want this to be the best bang for the buck ultimate daily driver that I can make it so one of the things I'm going to do is I have a AMG bodykit it's a it's a real authentic mg body kit it's from a car I had it was a flood car from a 2004 Mercedes s55 AMG so that includes front bumper side skirts rear bumper and the hood and I also have to get the headlights and that's also the reason why people have been complaining that I haven't really cleaned my headlights or at all and that's the reason because I'm replacing the headlights I'm going to go through all that there is a little bit of wiring involved but yeah the issue with my plan is that the car that I had the s 55 was black and this car it is very dark but it's not black it's blue it's actually midnight blue so what I'm going to do is I'm going to vinyl wrap this entire car I've never vinyl wrapped anything in my life I mean I have I have like small items small interior parts and stuff and they came out okay but I've never done something as big as this but I do have a garage I have you know it's fairly cool in here thanks to that nice frigid air conditioner and I think I can do it I just have to basically take the car apart I have to do some bodywork or there are some dents and dings and and bubbles and stuff I have to take care of but I think I can do it and so I don't have to have like two disparate colors on the the door jambs I'm going to make it also a dark blue it's not going to be exactly the same I don't really care if it's like an exact match but blue on blue should be fine it's going to be I want to make it like a satin pearl I don't know leave a leave a message in the comments if any of you have had some sort of experience with like a satin pearl vinyl but I think it would look really good on this car especially with the you know the nice thick bumpers and and the nice side skirts and I am going to get some new wheels it's not going to be rolling on these 16's anymore I was thinking about some 20s and maybe some concave wheels not not not super huge tires on there but you know whatever I mean it's Florida so there's not a lot of potholes here and I can lower the car as much as I want I will also be doing the s55 AMG exhaust which does not fit on this car but I will make it fit and you'll go through that whole experience but for now I think I'll leave it there and the next video on this car will be just some more regular maintenance I'm going to be doing repairs that this car desperately needs I'm going to be doing suspension I'm going to be doing the brakes I'm going to be doing oh the crank pulley so some of you may have noticed that I said this engine kind of rocks back and forth and it makes a vibration it feels kind of Cammy you know it's very like Boop you know that kind of stuff apparently it's an issue with every single Mercedes w221 because the crank pulley crank pulley itself it starts eating itself like there's a little rubber layer and that rubber layer just disintegrates so the crank pulley is down there just kind of like in the bowels of the engine and I have to take that apart I have to take that off I have a brand new crank pulley I have the crank pulley tool so I will be putting that on and hopefully this engine will be as smooth as silk and I know that's a overuse cliche but hopefully I'll be able to balance a quarter right there on its end on this engine so yeah I'm excited I won't have a car for a few days but this thing should be freaking awesome you know come all the mods and all the repairs that I'm going to do so as you can see I'm way dirtier and this is not how I usually do things actually it is I'm completely lying but I've made a batch myself to be a little bit more organized and the only reason why it's like this is because I don't have my toolbox yet I don't have my cabinets yet I don't have my tools my tools are still in that stupid trailer if you like this video as always like comment and subscribe I enjoy every single time I go on my channel and I see more subscriptions and more subscriptions there's more than 11,000 of you guys and thank every single one of you if you didn't like the video as always click the dislike button you know I like I like feedback I read every comment so you know maybe I'll change something maybe I won't I will get a tripod by the way I know I haven't heard a lot of you so this is me that's my Mercedes and stay tuned for next time when hopefully I'll have a running car byehello and welcome to another lovely day I know I haven't done one of these in a little while but that all changes today because I'm actually starting a new series in which I take that car behind you my mercedes-benz s 540,000 and I turned that into what I'd like to call the ultimate daily driver now I daily drive this thing all the time right now and actually I mean over two years it's gotten a little bit I'm not going to say more unreliable but it has been you know there have been a few issues namely after I did my little towing experiment I realized that the car now leaks a bit of oil so I'm gonna let you look at it not the bugs going to my face but I'm going to let you look at see this is my garage floor and you can notice a few things all these oil stains so this is oil and that is automatic transmission fluid neither of which is good for the car so what I'm going to do by the way before I get into that this is not dirt these are bugs so when I first did this tour I had just these huge gaps like right here and right there and these bugs were coming in I had the whole garage professionally cleaned and about two days later I had no lie like ten million bucks so I had to get creative I just went to Home Depot I got a bunch of like sealant and I got expanding foam and I sealed the hell out of this garage door and now no bugs are coming through other than you know these are validly trying but I don't think any of them really really got through I do need to wow this is a good million maybe more who knows what whatever that's it's not important right now so this is the car this as my viewers will know is my 2000 Marseille DS Benz S 500 it's perfectly fine there's nothing super wrong with it but it does need maintenance and I do want to make it a little more user friendly for for daily driving I mean it does look a little bit dated and it's not exactly what I'd call the ultimate daily driver I think this car has a lot of potential in it and especially for the price I paid I got this thing for 3 grand so I'm gonna do a series in which I repair this car I modify it and then I make it into something just absolutely special so today I'm just going to do a quick diagnosis of what this car needs and maybe maybe a quick repair too but I think right now the main thing is just going to be these so what I think is a problem with this automatic transmission fluid I think that might be just a seal on its a connector like an electronic connector so I ordered a new one of those and this I have no idea what that is so I'll have to do it diagnose that but for now I will put that car in here and as you can see I have my little portable a/c working and I don't actually have all my tools I got some tools in this little makeshift cracks at the craftsman toolbox but I did order a whole new cabinet set and I have like some Harbor Freight stuff coming but all my tools are still in the trailer so hopefully all the tools that I need to change all this stuff is in my little toolbox so fingers crossed on that all right now that I got the car in the air I am going to let you see under it well actually this is my first time looking under the car and you guys can join me so I'm a little LED light everything here is just stuff I bought at Harbor Freight except for this thing of water on Amazon no I'm not sponsored by Harbor Freight okay actually you know what I'm gonna get off of this creeper because I don't have that much room slide under here okay so get a little bit of better light so that's the oil pan for the automatic transmission and I'm not sure where it's you can see right there there's a there's an oil leak now I have to pinpoint where it's coming from doesn't look like it's leaking on to the exhaust or anything like that I mean the general condition of the underside it's it's good there's no rust anywhere but yeah I have to all right that's probably not great I'm hoping that's not my rear main seal and I'm hoping it's just a valve cover or something gasket that's leaking down there because if it is a rear main seal that is a huge problem okay I'm gonna try to pinpoint where this or this connector is supposed to be okay now I have actually found it it was a little bit hard to find but yeah this is definitely the source of my automatic transmission fluid leak you can see that this is the the connector here there was like a little bit of a shielding panel here I just took that out with a Torx bit and if you look around here there's it's all clean and automatic transmission fluid is actually a solvent it will if you ever look inside like a mattock transmission it's usually spotless like these things clean very very well so this is all clean and you can tell the rest is a rest of my car is a bit dirtier for the wear it as a daily driver but this is definitely where the leak was coming from so what I'm going to need to do is I'm going to need to take off this connector I think some fluid is going to come out I'm going to catch that and then there's two o-rings within this connector that I should replace what I'm replacing the entire thing and if anybody wants to figure out how to do it I'm going to show you how and the part is I believe it's like seven dollars and it's an OEM Mercedes part it's pretty simple to replace I think it's just a pull off and and push back on there might be a bolt involved but uh let's check it out well I hit my first snag because I don't actually have the socket that I need to take this out I'm sure I have the socket somewhere in my big-ass toolbox in my trailer I'm going to have to go digging for it but I'm just going to let you see what I'm what it is I'm dealing with so this is the new part all right so there's two o-rings right here one and two and the ones on my car they're probably really perished engine just leaking whatever massive fluid but if you look inside there's a little you see that I don't know if you can focus yeah so there's a little looks like a seven millimeter or it's definitely not an eight because an eight is too big and I don't have any seven millimeters on hand and since this is the only car I have I can't do a tool run so I'm gonna have to go digging for tools in my trailer but I won't do that right now what I'm going to do right now is address something that a few of you guys have clued me into well it's it's something that I was supposed to do a while back when I did my air suspension my air aye sir fix so I removed my wheel now some people have been complaining about that I didn't didn't show how to remove the wheel just take off some lug nuts that's basically it but um remove the wheel remove this this splash guard and here is the the new air compressor and what I did when I first installed it this whole thing the mount was broken and I welded on a new bolt and it was supposed to give it you know a little bit of it this is supposed to have a little bit of play but to play here it's way more you can see it's it's going up a lot and see if I can shine the light on there and the play here it's almost non-existent just because these threads are all broken so what I did is I got a new one all right so this installs with one two three bolts and I'm going to be installing it right there I'm just going to do that quickly so you guys can see that this is moving along somewhat even if I don't have the right tools for it I think these are just tens well these are definitely tens because I installed tens there and then those are I don't know they probably look like twelves or 13:13 probably because it's a German car after all okay so here is the offending article now this is not exactly falling apart but you can see if there's a lot of surface rust and you can take a look at this I mean there's like see if I can get that to focus come on come on there Wow this is taking forever yeah there's like three threads just on this thing and they're rusty and yeah that's not it's not gonna be very good but this is not a new part but it's in very good shape and you can see all those little guys all those threads that are supposed to be this does not like to focus in on blacks that's not it a little in sensor but this part is going in now VDS otto dismantler warranty void above a black who cares so this is going in now and i think i have some new hardware to put on here and let's see if we can't make this operate as intended okay so this is a bit of a win I got everything tightened and I actually might need a new mount right here like there's these little sort of bull I don't know how to explain it they're bolts but they also have like a little tube in the middle and they basically space out these two sections and this one is fine I got a new spring for this side and the other Springs are fine but these might be a little little small so if this starts making a rattling sound then I'll not only to replace the back to over there but it is mounted right now should be fine I don't think any sounds any any errant behavior should be coming from this unit but another bit of good news I will show you what the situation is with this alright so I took out took out the actual connector so this is what connects to the ECU and this was kind of saturated in the automatic trans fluid but if you look at the connector right here look now scared if you look at the connector right here I do have to take out that seven millimeter I'll just put a socket in there unscrew it take this out and I'll note the orientation of this because otherwise I don't think it's going to go in the same way but yeah I'll just take this out and put the new one in and we'll compare the two alright this is extremely uncomfortable but I took out this connector now yeah this is a little bit worse for the wear I'm gonna kind of slide myself out of here we're going to we're going to compare it whoops to the where's that new okay so here's a new one next to the old one and see right away the o-ring has just become I don't know it seems like really fattened and seems more squidgy this one is a little bit smaller and yeah I guess you can see that lots of fluid has been making it past this and it is a common failure point on the 72 2.6 transmissions these are the five speed transmissions for Mercedes and they they put them in everything from like the 350 models to the 600 models so yeah if you have a transmission fluid leak it's likely this part let me put this back in there I'm going to clean up the transmission a little bit the transmission side clean that up and then install this and hopefully we should be good to go okay now what I'm going to show you is basically the finished product of me fixing this automatic transmission fluid leak and also a few things I found about that oil that I mentioned before so going back under here again not a lot of space I can't wait until I get my lift I put the brand new connector right there cleaned it up and everything's looking pretty pretty tidy other than this obvious oil leak now I was really scared because this kind of look like a rear main seal leak and the rear main seal is a seal that goes around basically the crankshaft and it connects to the transmission transmission would have to come out and yeah it's a I'm not going to say it's a common problem but it's it's a problem that would it's in enough of these cars that it gets to be concerning around this mileage however there's a little access port here and you can feel around with your finger and if if it is the rear main seal I should be able to put my finger in here well that looks a little erotic I should be able to put my finger in there and this should be just doused with oil and I'm feeling around and there's nothing really in there I mean it's a little bit dirty but it's it's not doused with oil like like this is so remain seal is fine and if I look let me see if I can get this on camera like you can see that there's more caked on oil coming up from here so the oil problem it's going somewhere up there so if I look into the engine bay hello if I look into the engine bag let me get some light actually I can't see crap let me see if I can maybe something coming from the front of the engine I mean there's definitely some signs of weeping from a bad install of the valve cover you can see that RTV that red RTV just everywhere so I'm going to have to redo that but I can't see anything that's necessarily egregious but I will have to look further um but that automatic trans fluid leak is gone I don't know why I'm looking down there it's not like it's going to be leaking anytime soon what I need to do now is I have a dipstick might as well might as well get the dipstick okay for any of you that have a Mercedes especially of my vintage you'll notice that the automatic transmission does not come with a stock dipstick now I bought this one I think it was like 26 bucks and it it is just a aftermarket dipstick and I don't know why they didn't come with them but the hole is right here there's an access port for it just this little plug take that out and then you basically put the dipstick mmm yeah you put it down there and I'm not going to do it right now because the garage door is closed and I don't want to kill myself but he's supposed to have the car on and get it up to temperature around 80 degrees Celsius and this dipstick has these markings let's see if we can get in on that well it's on the other side all right so you have 80 degrees Celsius so it should be between there and there and this is 25 degrees Celsius so that is basically cold when the car just starts up and then the hydraulic fluid expands and it should be right here under operating temperature my car was having a problem where this after a while would just you know operating temperature were just it wouldn't even register on the scale and I would have to put in a lot a lot a lot of fluid just to get it up to here and I did that right before the move and I think that the extra pressure or the extra strain of the trailer just kind of did this thing in and just started spewing automatic transmission fluid but I think it should be fine now I think I do have the special trans fluid by the way if you want to fill up a Mercedes you need fluid that's called mag one na g - one but a good reader viewer listener know yeah somebody just clued me into this you can its Valvoline max life full synthetic ATF and it works for Mercedes and you know that by looking back here and I wish if I wish my my hands could work right here it says Mercedes Benz na g1 Mercedes Benz for their fluid wants something crazy I think it's like fifty dollars per gallon or it might might even be more but this is just your regular sort of ATF and it works fabulously so just get a bunch of extra gallons or quarts or whatever you have this is in Walmart I think it's like I want to say fifteen to twenty bucks a gallon so these are just absolute lifesavers I do also have some mobile one 0w forty just in case I haven't had to use this yet but I will be doing an oil change and I have to get more of this and an oil filter but I think for now that's about it as you can see the car is just taken apart I will be doing let's see I have brakes for this car which are which is in those boxes I have will have to do brakes front and rear and the really big issue that I just figured out is a suspension now I do have new suspension but if I can get light in here because everything is kind of like in in bad shape but it's it's serviceable what isn't serviceable let's see if I can get back here hey see what isn't serviceable is this right here see if I can get that yeah this is bad news so this should be a boot and there should be grease in there this is completely dry and this is what was squeaking anytime somebody got in my car anytime the suspension no just went up and down this was sleeping a lot and this overtime can just snap off and we do not want that so what I'm going to do is since I do have the part I'm going to install it but I don't have the ball joint this is a ball joint by the way I don't have the ball joint removal tool from Mercedes well the specialized Mercedes part Mercedes tool I did buy it it's on its way from England but for now the car is gonna sit and since it's my only car I'm gonna have to get a rental car so yeah I don't know when that's going to come in but for now I'm going to just do some some more work around the car and I will have a sort of overall plan for this and I'll clue you into that now I want this car to be just the best daily driver that you can get for any amount of money just um obviously there's going to be more cars there's going to be cars with more tech nology and probably better fuel economy and maybe more comfort but I want this to have everything I want this to be the best bang for the buck ultimate daily driver that I can make it so one of the things I'm going to do is I have a AMG bodykit it's a it's a real authentic mg body kit it's from a car I had it was a flood car from a 2004 Mercedes s55 AMG so that includes front bumper side skirts rear bumper and the hood and I also have to get the headlights and that's also the reason why people have been complaining that I haven't really cleaned my headlights or at all and that's the reason because I'm replacing the headlights I'm going to go through all that there is a little bit of wiring involved but yeah the issue with my plan is that the car that I had the s 55 was black and this car it is very dark but it's not black it's blue it's actually midnight blue so what I'm going to do is I'm going to vinyl wrap this entire car I've never vinyl wrapped anything in my life I mean I have I have like small items small interior parts and stuff and they came out okay but I've never done something as big as this but I do have a garage I have you know it's fairly cool in here thanks to that nice frigid air conditioner and I think I can do it I just have to basically take the car apart I have to do some bodywork or there are some dents and dings and and bubbles and stuff I have to take care of but I think I can do it and so I don't have to have like two disparate colors on the the door jambs I'm going to make it also a dark blue it's not going to be exactly the same I don't really care if it's like an exact match but blue on blue should be fine it's going to be I want to make it like a satin pearl I don't know leave a leave a message in the comments if any of you have had some sort of experience with like a satin pearl vinyl but I think it would look really good on this car especially with the you know the nice thick bumpers and and the nice side skirts and I am going to get some new wheels it's not going to be rolling on these 16's anymore I was thinking about some 20s and maybe some concave wheels not not not super huge tires on there but you know whatever I mean it's Florida so there's not a lot of potholes here and I can lower the car as much as I want I will also be doing the s55 AMG exhaust which does not fit on this car but I will make it fit and you'll go through that whole experience but for now I think I'll leave it there and the next video on this car will be just some more regular maintenance I'm going to be doing repairs that this car desperately needs I'm going to be doing suspension I'm going to be doing the brakes I'm going to be doing oh the crank pulley so some of you may have noticed that I said this engine kind of rocks back and forth and it makes a vibration it feels kind of Cammy you know it's very like Boop you know that kind of stuff apparently it's an issue with every single Mercedes w221 because the crank pulley crank pulley itself it starts eating itself like there's a little rubber layer and that rubber layer just disintegrates so the crank pulley is down there just kind of like in the bowels of the engine and I have to take that apart I have to take that off I have a brand new crank pulley I have the crank pulley tool so I will be putting that on and hopefully this engine will be as smooth as silk and I know that's a overuse cliche but hopefully I'll be able to balance a quarter right there on its end on this engine so yeah I'm excited I won't have a car for a few days but this thing should be freaking awesome you know come all the mods and all the repairs that I'm going to do so as you can see I'm way dirtier and this is not how I usually do things actually it is I'm completely lying but I've made a batch myself to be a little bit more organized and the only reason why it's like this is because I don't have my toolbox yet I don't have my cabinets yet I don't have my tools my tools are still in that stupid trailer if you like this video as always like comment and subscribe I enjoy every single time I go on my channel and I see more subscriptions and more subscriptions there's more than 11,000 of you guys and thank every single one of you if you didn't like the video as always click the dislike button you know I like I like feedback I read every comment so you know maybe I'll change something maybe I won't I will get a tripod by the way I know I haven't heard a lot of you so this is me that's my Mercedes and stay tuned for next time when hopefully I'll have a running car bye\n"