Diagrams showing all drains and where and how to lube the roof seals and mechanisms.
Mercedes slk roof leak.
Large amounts of oil are leaking from the right side of the roof near the sun visor and the right vent window.
Over the years mercedes have launched to the market 3 generations of the mercedes slk cabriolet representing sportlich sporty leicht light and kurz short.
Do you treat your seals with gummi phledge.
If you find out that the convertible top reservoir is low in fluid that means that you have a leak most likely at one of the convertible lift cylinders.
The mercedes slk 172 cabriolet third generation continued with the popular two piece metal folding roof known as the vario roof which included a choice of a roof painted in the vehicle colour a panoramic vario roof with dark tinted windows or a panoramic vario roof with magic sky control containing a glass roof that could be switched to.
The hydraulic roof actuating cylinder on the driver side was leaking hydraulic fluid.
I hope you enjoyed my simple video picture explanation on how i fix the leaks in my point 1 in my slk 200 vario roof.
I would recommend rebuilding all five of the hydraulic cylinders.
I have a 99 slk and the top will not go down.
Hope this helps good luck.
It seems like the channel on the right side of the hardtop is now filled with oil and it is dripping on the right passenger seat headrest and floor board.
You can see the leak on the plastic panel in the slk s trunk.
There are many drains on that roof.
The majority of mercedes convertible problems are caused by a bad relay weak lift cylinder or lift cylinder leaking by the o ring.