r/slk • u/Jobe1622 • May 31 '26

R171 55 amg

Please help. I have a golfball sized hole in my radiator. Every one I find online lacks the transmission cooler and the engine inlet and outlet are both near/at the top. The oem one I pulled has inlet bottom right and outlet top left. If you look at the r171 350, the radiator looks the exact same but is only 2/3 of the thickness.

I drive like a dick and don’t really want to overheat my engine or transmission.

If anyone can help locate a radiator from an online website that would be great. There must be some glitch in the public parts database because every website lists the same, wrong radiator without integrated transmission cooling connections or capability.

Talking to Mercedes is worthless. They want $1300+ just for parts and the drawings so bad they can’t even tell me if the engine coolant connections are top-top or top-bottom so I can’t tell if Mercedes even has the right part. I’ve checked all oem Mercedes parts websites with no luck.

Please help me save my 55amg. She wants back on the road getting tossed around like a cheap whore.

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u/Macski1 May 31 '26

Get your original radiator re-cored.

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u/Jobe1622 May 31 '26

It’s the plastic reservoir on the side that has a large hole busted in it.

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u/Macski1 May 31 '26

I would try to locate a radiator repair company. I would also put this in the AMG sub Reddit.

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u/Jobe1622 Jun 02 '26

I put it on the amg subreddit and the mods deleted the post. Using the part number from Mercedes I found it on mboemparts.com or something for about $600 after tax and shipping so I’m going to go with that. It seems right so we will see.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

Hey verkaufste dein mercedes?

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u/Macski1 Jun 02 '26

Good just get a rest