Mercedes-Benz SL 560 R107 Excellent Condition | Recent repairs around 15K AED

Description

AED 15,000 has just gone into it. The oil pan and the steering box are both resealed on Mercedes-Benz parts. Leave it on a clean floor overnight and the floor stays clean.
Out of eighteen years of R107 the 560 SL is the one to have. Biggest engine the car ever carried, 5,547 cc of M117, and Mercedes-Benz only ever sent it to North America, Japan and Australia. There is no European 560 SL.
An R107 V8 weeps in four places: the oil pan, the rear crankshaft seal, the front of the gearbox and the steering box. This one was doing all four. All four are done.
None of that is bolt off work. The sump sits over the front crossmember and a steering box has to come out of the car to be resealed properly, which is why most cars this age are still weeping and why this one is not.
Everything fitted is Mercedes-Benz genuine or the German original equipment behind it. Bosch, Varta, Lemförder, ZF, Sachs, Elring, all of it on the invoices.
61,277 miles in forty years, a shade over fifteen hundred a year. The original hardtop is still with it and the mechanical file behind it is fresh.
The work · AED 15,000
This is every job and what each one involved.
Engine. The oil pan came off, was repaired and welded, and went back on a new gasket. Oil filter housing renewed complete with its gasket. Oil pressure switch and rear crankshaft seal replaced, both engine mountings with them. Fresh oil to the correct grade and a new filter. Engine bay and underside cleaned once the leak repairs were finished, so the next weep has nowhere to hide.
Transmission. Torque converter seal renewed and a complete seal kit fitted, front pump seal included. Pan gasket, filter and transmission mounting all new. Fresh fluid to specification, level set with the engine running at temperature. With the gearbox out, the flexplate and the starter ring gear were inspected. With the driveline apart, so were the propshaft flexible discs and the centre support bearing.
Fuel system. All four fuel hoses repaired or renewed, machine work included. Fuel filter and pre filter new. The system was then pressure tested and confirmed dry.
Steering. The steering box came out, was repaired and resealed on a new seal kit, and went back in. Box coupling, tie rod assembly and steering damper all replaced.

Power steering flushed and refilled, pressure and return hoses inspected. Four wheel alignment on completion, and there is a printed sheet with the before and after on it.
Electrical. Main battery new. Terminals and clamps cleaned, hold down secured.
Roof and finish. The soft top was fitted and checked for seating, latching and sealing. Then a full detail inside and out: paintwork, wheels, engine bay, cabin, carpets, seats and boot.
Handover. Road tested. No leaks, levels correct, steering correct, no warning lights.
Matching numbers. The Daimler-Benz plate is still on the door shut: 05/86, model 107. That is the chassis number the work was booked against.
Quad round headlamps, amber lenses, the impact bumpers and a speedometer reading in miles. That is the 560 SL as Mercedes-Benz built it, and it is the look the model is known by.
Seventeen inch bolted split rims, white centres and polished lips, wearing 225/45ZR17. Not the eight hole fifteens it was delivered on, but period, and they suit it. The originals are not with the car.
This one was never restored and it does not pretend it was. Somebody simply looked after it.
Hagerty puts a 560 SL in good order at USD 22,300 and an excellent one at USD 55,300. Two and a half times the money for the same car in better condition.
That spread is the whole argument. On an R107 the buyer is paying for the file, not the badge, and the cars that have moved are the ones that came with paperwork.
Values came off the floor around 2015 and have climbed since. A 1989 car took USD 260,400 at auction in August 2024. That is the record rather than the rule, but it shows where the ceiling has gone.
Mercedes-Benz built 49,347 of them in four years and every one is now forty years old or close to it. Sorted examples are getting harder to find, and that is the half of this market still going up.
237,287 R107s were built across the run, so parts are on the shelf and specialists know the car. That is not true of most things appreciating at this rate.
Figures from the Hagerty Price Guide and from classic.com. Both are public. Check them on this car before you buy it.
Asking AED 95,000.
Two roofs, five and a half litres, and a file that says what has been done to it. Mercedes-Benz meant this to last forty years, and it has.
We will look at a part exchange. The file goes with the car, and the invoices and the alignment sheet are in it. Put it on any ramp you like before anything is signed.

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