and
miles later ...






I think it still looks good

 

Wow. Car looks amazing for 187K miles. My car doesnt look nearly as good and i just passed 100k

 

Your car looks amazing. your grill looks awesome btw.

 

Wow, blast from the past. Where you been.

CL looks good. Still getting crazy good gas mileage?

I see you got a Vette to replace the M3.

 

Damn! you've been riding out lol. Car looks damn good. Hows she drive?

 

WOW... thats 300 000kms...

tell us your secrets to keep her in good shape!

 

wow very clean. u detail it on a regular basis?

 

that is nice for 50k let alone 187k. wow great job man. cleanest car i've seen above 150k.

 

6 years? Did you get the 1st 1 produced? LOL...
Exterior looks great. What does the leather look like?

Is that the other grill tech test grill you got there?

 

Sweet... You do quite a bit of driving I guess... I'll hit 6 years on Oct 2nd and I've only got 78k on mine...

Any major work done on it recently ?? Just curious as to what a higher mileage CL needs maintenace wise...

 

By next June, All the CL's will be at least 6 years old (by build date)...

August 2002 is about half way thru the 2003 MY production run... My CL is 8866 out of 16xxx and was built in Aug 02.

Time flies when you're having fun...

 

Yup. I just cracked 60k on mine. #941. Delivered March 29 2002.

And to the OP-

I wish my car looked half as nice. Is that the RJ grill?

 

so clean, i wish the previous owners of my car had taken care of the paint, its fading in a lot of spots now, which sucks because i cant afford a paintjob

 

So sick and crazy......... Very clean.........

 

This is what i use to keep my CLS clean

 

lol are you sponsored by mcguires or what? hehehe

i use most of that stuff too.

 

not sure when mine was produced but i hit 6yrs back in april. i wish my baby looked like the op's. not parking in a garage doesn't help either

 

OUTSTANDING!!!
Your paint looks like glass, you got to to market your secret.
I use Zaino and the Klasses and your's got mine beat down.
Love It...

 

Hey mc ... how u doing. Noted u became a mod a while back. You've come a long way from that kid who showed up at a Philly meet a few years back with a stock, used CL young man

Gas mileage has dropped, but only because even Sheetz has started using Ethanol in their gas. I continue to get 'close to' 30 mpg now, down from what it use to be, but only because of the Ethanol. Started to notice the mileage go down about the time a Shell station in Baltimore had cheaper (by about .16 a gallon) gas, but things have switched around and now we're cheaper by about .40 per.

Oh ... by the way ... good eyes! Wondered if anybody would pick up on my replacement for the M3. Had been determined to get the new 335i, but even after a year in production, there were still some things that they appeared not to be able to get str8. So, after denying I'd ever get an American car ... let alone a vette ... I took the plunge this past December and went all out (Museum delivery, including factory tour in Bowling Green). Very enjoyable experience ... plus 436hp @ 28mpg (damn ethanol again keeping me from getting 30+).

I still pop in every now and again, but alot of the names/faces have changed since shortly before we lost RedCL that summer (right after I lost the M3). Spend most of my time on the vette forum these days.

Take care

 

Not as tight as a new car for obvious reasons, but it's my DailyDriver, and I have no complaints at all ... except after I get out of the vet and realize how much tighter I wish it could be.

Washed/waxed regularly ... always garaged ... try to avoid bad situations!

Thank you ... knew there would be a group of people who would appreciate seeing what an older car could look like if taken care of.

Passenger seat looks like it's only seen 500 butt miles. Drivers seat shows signs of cracking etc, but no seperation to date.

No, this is one of the original Grill Tech grills made available by former member SS2000, before Carl started making empty promises about having the companies owner on his personal cell phone ... before he deleted all the threads on the subject ... long before RonJon introduced his version. I still like this one better, because it flows with the car, as opppossed to looking like it's falling away (down and back) from the hoodline like the RJ grill does.

Absolutely nothing other than taking it into the dealer every 7500 miles on the dot! (go figure ... the car looks like this, you know I'm partially anal!!!!) I'm famous at the dealership, and they don't even bother asking the mileage anymore, because they know that - for example - when I pull into the service facility next Tuesday, the odometer will read 187,500 exactly!

I have been a deciple of SAL (Zaino) since right after I bought it, but I tried something totally different this time because I didn't want to 'test' something new on the vette, and I figured after 6 years, I'd rather screw this up then the vet. I want to see if it does everything it advertises, and I'll come back and reveal all if it meets my satisfaction. But based on the reactions above, I think you all give it a big

 

If you ever want to get rid of it, I'd love to take it off your hands

 

By the way mc, and not to start this war again, but incase you didn't notice ...



That's 295.5 miles since the last fill-up! nuf sed?

 

wow, that mileage is really impressive! i'm lucky to get 300+ miles to the tank around town, let alone 2/3. and she looks real clean too!

 

Love the Servos, and nice to see a CL can make it this far.

 

Car looks great, mines got just about 90k now and hopefully looks that good by the time it hits 180k.

 

Your CL is in incredible condition. I too use all of those same products, it's just the damned stone chips that are killing my hood that drives me crazy.

 

Car looks great, it's nice when people take care of a nice car as it gets older. Still looks brand new.

 

If not for the unavoidable stone chips and a couple of scratches here and there, I'd say it looks better than brand new ... and the way it should have looked from the factory in the first place.

 

Your CL looks clean and well maintained.

I think your CL would look better without chrome wheels....IMO.

Other than that...nice.

 

They're not chrome ... they're machine finished with painted rims ...

and a bit of Zaino