teamSPB's New Project...Mercedes CLS..time to be PIMP

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[diegoclass2010]

awesome work! and for sure the car is a neck breaker! Love it!

[teamSPB]

Since I had bought the car, I periodically had an error message saying Battery or something, so it was about time I did something about it as it started to come on more frequently.

As I have 2 batteries in the rear of the vehicle, one OEM battery and another XS Power D2400 battery to help spread the load, I knew it wouldn't be showing an error from the rear batteries, which only left the front aux battery.

When I removed all the bits to access the front battery, I noticed it was the original MB battery from new. Not bad considering these are meant to have 3-4 years life in them.

As per my normal actions, once the battery etc had been removed, I cleaned EVERYTHING out and got rid of any leaves, dirt and grime from the area and then waxed it all!

As per the instructions, I had to fill the battery up with the supplied distilled water and let it settle for 20minutes before giving the battery a full charge. In its charge state, the battery now floated at around 12.9v. Perfect!

Then as I went to fit it, as normal, the terminals would not fit! So after a few modifications, I got everything to fit and was on my way to finish the installation.

All back to normal with a new pollen filter to

Next up, I bought a set of AMG stainless door pins as I didn't really like the look of the plastic ones.

The big change in the interior was the addition of a brand new Genuine AMG steering wheel and AMG paddle shift conversion

I also got a custom Carbon AMG gear lever which I have not seen many if any about. Apparently it was made in Sweden according to the guy I bought it off

Ill get some better photos of it later.

Im just downloading some more pics so ill be back with an update shortly

[teamSPB]

Next up was time to clean the seats…now, anyone who has seen the interior of the car will know its relatively clean. However, most people associate 'shiny' leather with 'clean' leather, you couldn't be more wrong!

Leather in its natural colour, will have a matt like finish to it and not feel slippery etc.

Now, I'm guessing the previous owners of the vehicle looked after it quite well but fell under the category of people thinking shiny leather is great.

My rear seats out and ready to clean…before

After

Clean on the left vs untouched on the right

Front seats

A quick reflection shot of the CLS with my Previa (Project DFN U) in the background

Some more of the gear knob

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[graham0599]

I absolutely love the car

[teamSPB]

Recently I have noticed my headlights bulbs have been pretty poor at lighting up the road so I have been looking into getting replacements. I LOVE the Ring Sportz Blue bulbs I had in there, but thinking they have trouble with projector style lamps (As we have had this issue on a Corsa with projector style headlights), I decided to update the car further more. I wanted the bi-xenons but can't find them for the love of God!

I decided instead to use some 55w HID's in 6000k temperature/colour. Looks very OEM and looks exactly like the Xenon equipped cars. Further more, no error lights at all!

55w HID vs 80w Ring Sportz Blue

Next up, I wanted to change the wing mirror for later spec items, I found a set on offer and snapped them up!

Big thanks to 'television' for sending me the instructions on the wing mirrors!

Old vs New

Wing mirror covers removed and looking dirty

It was all washed down and given two layers of Poor Boys Bare Bones for protection

New mirrors on

LED lights on the bottom to fully working

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[FieroGrande]

Dem mirrors are fucking dope. Your carvis so sexy.

[Mtnbikecrazy55]

It's fun following along, love all the little touches.

X2 with clean leather being not shiny!!

[diegoclass2010]

great updates! the seats look killer it looks like most of the wrinkles went away or faded. what process did you take if you don't mind me asking?

[Wood]

Recently I have noticed my headlights bulbs have been pretty poor at lighting up the road so I have been looking into getting replacements. I LOVE the Ring Sportz Blue bulbs I had in there, but thinking they have trouble with projector style lamps (As we have had this issue on a Corsa with projector style headlights), I decided to update the car further more. I wanted the bi-xenons but can't find them for the love of God!

I decided instead to use some 55w HID's in 6000k temperature/colour. Looks very OEM and looks exactly like the Xenon equipped cars. Further more, no error lights at all!

55w HID vs 80w Ring Sportz Blue

Next up, I wanted to change the wing mirror for later spec items, I found a set on offer and snapped them up!

Big thanks to 'television' for sending me the instructions on the wing mirrors!

Old vs New

Wing mirror covers removed and looking dirty

It was all washed down and given two layers of Poor Boys Bare Bones for protection

New mirrors on

LED lights on the bottom to fully working

teamSPB

Nice upgrade! Very subtle yet made a huge difference!!!

As far as the projectors, you should look into "theretrofitsource" ... Its Projector and HID Heavan! I'm actually about to retrofit projectors in my Altima and I'll be using them... And I'm Not trying to take away from your work experience (because you are very fucking handy with a sexy ass machine haha), but they also have a forum for retrofitting called "HIDPlanet" (dont wanna put links because I don't want to go against forum policy). You should check it out, I think they may have what you looking for!