Lotta work :tu: (BTW, I see Schwarzie in there :wink: )

 

Any idea how many 43s have been made? I dunno if you can estimate with the same method considering the 43 engine is shared with other mercedes models.

 

As the engine is not unique to the SLC43 you cannot use the same method.

 

That's a lot of work for an easier source to answer your question: MB in Germany knows the worldwide numbers and they are published as a 'must' by government. I don't keep track on where these numbers end up, but I do where the guys live who do know. I'll ask the German SLK club. They keep a track record of all models produced. Just for fun the list of Dutch SLK55's, sorry no engine numbers:

Licence-Build-Color-OEMprice
00-TZJ-8 02/05/2012 Blauw € 128.011
1-KDF-00 13/09/2011 Grijs € 100.048
2-KXH-16 12/04/2012 Zwart € 100.605
3-SNT-31 11/06/2013 Zwart € 104.092
3-TLN-22 15/03/2013 Wit € 109.994
46-XVK-7 29/08/2012 Grijs € 121.539
4-XHV-78 20/03/2013 Zwart € 103.714
50-XXR-7 13/09/2012 Groen € 115.912
5-TVR-41 26/05/2014 Grijs € 127.068
61-TLK-7 01/03/2012 Zwart € 103.402
7-SPD-03 29/05/2013 Zwart € 111.570
8-ZKP-08 21/05/2014 Zwart € 113.647
92-XDB-4 15/05/2012 Zwart € 106.225
9-KFH-97 05/04/2013 Wit € 104.315
GG-710-R 24/02/2014 Wit € 107.062
GT-984-T 07/01/2013 Zwart € 97.297
HG-787-B 11/04/2014 Zwart € 107.130
HR-059-Z 17/02/2015 Wit € 119.474
HX-654-K 15/01/2016 Zwart € 116.007
JG-898-G 11/04/2013 Wit € 104.742
JJ-617-Z 08/04/2016 Wit € 130.900
KL-756-T 24/06/2015 Zwart € 108.300
PP-627-T 29/12/2014 Grijs € 135.527
RR-699-R 23/09/2015 Zwart € 106.891

Date in EU notation: DD/MM/CCYY, Wit=White, Zwart=Black, Grijs=Grey, Blauw=Blue. There quite a penalty on buying polluting cars, two taxes, one new (a scale), one VAT (21% also on the new tax). This is public information in NL, so no privacy rules being broken.

 

That's a lot of work for an easier source to answer your question: MB in Germany knows the worldwide numbers and they are published as a 'must' by government. I don't keep track on where these numbers end up, but I do where the guys live who do know. I'll ask the German SLK club. They keep a track record of all models produced. Just for fun the list of Dutch SLK55's, sorry no engine numbers:

Licence-Build-Color-OEMprice
00-TZJ-8 02/05/2012 Blauw € 128.011
1-KDF-00 13/09/2011 Grijs € 100.048
2-KXH-16 12/04/2012 Zwart € 100.605
3-SNT-31 11/06/2013 Zwart € 104.092
3-TLN-22 15/03/2013 Wit € 109.994
46-XVK-7 29/08/2012 Grijs € 121.539
4-XHV-78 20/03/2013 Zwart € 103.714
50-XXR-7 13/09/2012 Groen € 115.912
5-TVR-41 26/05/2014 Grijs € 127.068
61-TLK-7 01/03/2012 Zwart € 103.402
7-SPD-03 29/05/2013 Zwart € 111.570
8-ZKP-08 21/05/2014 Zwart € 113.647
92-XDB-4 15/05/2012 Zwart € 106.225
9-KFH-97 05/04/2013 Wit € 104.315
GG-710-R 24/02/2014 Wit € 107.062
GT-984-T 07/01/2013 Zwart € 97.297
HG-787-B 11/04/2014 Zwart € 107.130
HR-059-Z 17/02/2015 Wit € 119.474
HX-654-K 15/01/2016 Zwart € 116.007
JG-898-G 11/04/2013 Wit € 104.742
JJ-617-Z 08/04/2016 Wit € 130.900
KL-756-T 24/06/2015 Zwart € 108.300
PP-627-T 29/12/2014 Grijs € 135.527
RR-699-R 23/09/2015 Zwart € 106.891

Date in EU notation: DD/MM/CCYY, Wit=White, Zwart=Black, Grijs=Grey, Blauw=Blue. There quite a penalty on buying polluting cars, two taxes, one new (a scale), one VAT (21% also on the new tax). This is public information in NL, so no privacy rules being broken.

Thanks for your response. It was a lot of work and it just shows that only being able to search by visually scrolling pages you can miss things hence missing @bigboyows car. I will be interested to see the German SLK Club reply to you.

 

Looking through the pages there is one member whose car was delivered on 1 Jan 2016. I am going to PM them and ask if they would request a datacard or alternatively let me know the engine number as this must be one of the last one's produced.

My R172 55 was registered 29th April 2016, I have asked my dealer and MB Brooklands, they "think" its the last one registered in UK, I'm not sure but would love to know. Surprised they couldn't tell me.

 

Thanks for your response. Your engine number is 3460 so my estimate of 3500 is not far adrift. I will update the list with the details of your car as soon as I can. Has anybody got a later engine number than 3460 so that I can add them to the list?

 

I have following engine numbers with delivery dates and reg plates:

13 plate- Delivery Date 03 07 2013 - engine 152980 60 002423, 799U DIAMOND WHITE
14 plate - Final Inspection date 10 12 2013 - engine 152980 60 002570 - Obsidian Black
14 plate - Delivery date 08 04 2014 - engine 152980 60 002740, 799U DIAMOND WHITE
64 plate - Delivery Date 16 05 2014 - engine 152980 60 002820, 032U DESIGNO-MYSTIC BLUE
65 plate - Delivery date 03 06 2015 - engine 152980 60 003363, 996U HYACINTH RED. It looks like it's 2 numbers down from last on the pdf list.

Had more but they were on my work computer and I didn't copy it. These data are from time when I was looking for a car in 2016.

I assume there's couple more brand new engines lying around, as spare parts.

According to "How Many left" there's 456 of SLK55 AMG AUTO (up to 2015) registered left, peak number was 466 and 61 of AMG SLK 55 AUTO (from 2015), peak number 62. So in total there was around 528 SLK55 registered in UK. Some cars could have be written off before new ones were added to stats, so it's estimate.

 

From www.kba.de (German required)

R172 SLK55AMG
2016: 34
2015: 89+54
2014: 84+70
2013: 87+63
2012: 224+132
2011: none

The 'plus' numbers have something to do with the way these cars are registered in Germany, for our purpose, just put them together.

These are the cars sold in Germany. World wide numbers are a 'company secret'. Too bad.

 

From www.kba.de (German required)

R172 SLK55AMG
2016: 34
2015: 89+54
2014: 84+70
2013: 87+63
2012: 224+132
2011: none

The 'plus' numbers have something to do with the way these cars are registered in Germany, for our purpose, just put them together.

These are the cars sold in Germany. World wide numbers are a 'company secret'. Too bad.

The 'company secret' is the problem and that is why I have gone down the route I have albeit time consuming. The uniqueness of the R172SLK55 engine makes it possible to use the engine number and the datacard that we have access too to get an answer on total production numbers or fairly close to it. I think we are fairly close at 3460 with @bigboyows car.

 

That list doesn’t have SWMBOs Fire Opal Red 55 on it. It was registered on the 26th June 2015 so it post-dates all of those and I know for a fact that there were several registered afterwards ours.

If you e-mail Mercedes Benz customer service I’m sure they’ll give you a definitive answer.

 

That list doesn’t have SWMBOs Fire Opal Red 55 on it. It was registered on the 26th June 2015 so it post-dates all of those and I know for a fact that there were several registered afterwards ours.

If you e-mail Mercedes Benz customer service I’m sure they’ll give you a definitive answer.

Is SWMBO a member as I cannot find them in the member list. Quite happy to include the car in the list if you have a datacard with the info. We have now identified an R172 SLK55 registered on 29 April 2016 which I need to add to the list. As fas as Mercedes Benz is concerned several members here have asked them in the past for production numbers and the response has always been that it is confidential. If it had been that easy I would have done so.

 

No, she’s not a member. She resolutely thinks that cars aren’t interesting. She got the 55 because I cancelled my order and got a CDi250 instead. She currently runs a white 43 which she enjoys more because it’s less of a handful in the wet.

If you check “How many left”

You will see that the pattern for registrations on R172 SLK 55 Cars was;

2011 - 1 (bit of a slow start)
2012 - 214 (the best year ever)
2013 - 115
2014 - 97
2015 - 94
2016 - 12 (this would have largely been MY2016 cars build after June 2015 that sat unregistered in showrooms for a few months.)

But knowing what was registered in any one market doesn’t tell you what was actually made - plus Mercedes Benz are legally obliged to provide spares for 10 years after production stops so they have more engines in spares stock than were put in cars so you can’t really link the engine number to the number of cars made.

It’s likely that the biggest markets for the 55 would be the US and Middle East. In the UK it appears there were 532 registered and I doubt that the UK is 17% of Mercedes worldwide sales so I think there must be more than 3500 in total.

 

No, she’s not a member. She resolutely thinks that cars aren’t interesting. She got the 55 because I cancelled my order and got a CDi250 instead. She currently runs a white 43 which she enjoys more because it’s less of a handful in the wet.

If you check “How many left”

You will see that the pattern for registrations on R172 SLK 55 Cars was;

2011 - 1 (bit of a slow start)
2012 - 214 (the best year ever)
2013 - 115
2014 - 97
2015 - 94
2016 - 12 (this would have largely been MY2016 cars build after June 2015 that sat unregistered in showrooms for a few months.)

But knowing what was registered in any one market doesn’t tell you what was actually made - plus Mercedes Benz are legally obliged to provide spares for 10 years after production stops so they have more engines in spares stock than were put in cars so you can’t really link the engine number to the number of cars made.

It’s likely that the biggest markets for the 55 would be the US and Middle East. In the UK it appears there were 532 registered and I doubt that the UK is 17% of Mercedes worldwide sales so I think there must be more than 3500 in total.

I have been to that website and I made it 554 registered for use on the road in the UK. Of those registered there are currently 517 which are licenced and 16 that are SORN ( statutory off road notification). The difference of 11 cars I can only guess is that they may have been exported or met a sadder ending.


Of the latest car identified ( engine number 3460) it was delivered on 15 September 2015 and Registered on 29 April 2016. With regard to the numbers I have only given a breakdown of a) The US and South America b) UK and the rest of the World. The majority of those however in b) are in the UK and is from their profile on this site.


It will be interesting if any existing member of this site who has a later R172SLK55 and who has not posted yet and asked for a Datacard comes forward to reveal a later car.

 

Shame you didn't decide to start this stats earlier, before most UK websites decoding reg plate to VIN number were working. At the moment only one is left and only works for some users. Then you could periodically check cars on sale and check their info online.

 

Hello Agnes. What is that website? That would only work presumably for UK cars but well worth a look if you can point me in the right direction.

As a fellow owner I am interested how rare our cars are and with only around 3500 in total I believe being produced worldwide that is pretty rare. Regards Martin

 

https://www.blueprint-adl.com/blueprintlive/ But if you were not registered earlier, it won't work for you. It seems that some users were not deleted and can still access it. My username doesn't work any more. All thanks to GDPR.

 

https://www.blueprint-adl.com/blueprintlive/ But if you were not registered earlier, it won't work for you. It seems that some users were not deleted and can still access it. My username doesn't work any more. All thanks to GDPR.

That's a shame.:surprise:

 

SLC43 seems to be doing reasonably well in UK, 366 total registrations in 2016 and 2017. And I hardly ever see them.

 

It was interesting trying to find some info.

VERY slightly off topic (R171) http://www.slkworld.com/amgs/10914-canadian-amg-sales-production-numbers.html

 

I have done the same as MartinatMersea.


21.12.2011 2012 WDD1724751F 037290 Engine nr 15298060 000082
06.09.2015 2016 WDD1724751F 119200 15298060 003561

First SLC: 01.11.2015

This means that about 3500 engines are produced ( SLK55 AMG )

 

I have done the same as MartinatMersea.


21.12.2011 2012 WDD1724751F 037290 Engine nr 15298060 000082
06.09.2015 2016 WDD1724751F 119200 15298060 003561

First SLC: 01.11.2015

This means that about 3500 engines are produced ( SLK55 AMG )

I have just updated post 1. I Pmd @CA Bob who I noticed had a very late registered R172SLK55 in his profile. He kindly applied for a Datacard and from his engine number of 3631 his car must be one of the very last produced.

@Slk55nor do you know the colour of the 2 vehicles you have identified? I will gladly add them to the list. What was your source for the information you provided above?

 

Here is your Datacard with the engine number which is 3137.

Thank you! Excellent!

 

i moved the datacard request to the request section so other members do not request in this thread
sent you both the link

 

Ok, thank you!

 

here is your engine number

Engine no.: 152980 60 003137

datacard in datacard request section as noted above

 

Hi @MartinatMersea great to see you today. My data card says my 55 is 1883 with a release/delivery date of 14/2/2013 so am half way through-ish. My colour is listed as Designo Mystic Clue (not blue, not a typo I beleive) and this has got me interested in these stats as to how many there are of this colour. According to howmanyleft there was some 60 odd blue 55's but as this is a Designo colour I am intrigued as to where this fits in with your numbers and also why it is Clue and not blue. Weirdly enough there are many sites and Google results as Mystic Blue and a few as Mystic Clue so am still baffled. But it is leading me to think it is now an exceptionally rare colour choice. If you or anyone else can shed some light in this then I would be highly appreciative for this.

 

In answer to the option we spoke of yesterday to open and close the vario roof with the key it is option 880 CLOSING SYSTEM WITH INFRARED REMOTE CONTROL. With regard to colours my research did not go down to the variances in colour. Unfortunately I cannot revisit the core data I used because since the site changed format that data is no longer accessible to me.

 

Because of ☝ , found quite a few "mystic clue" units out there for sale, quite a few is a relative figure though.

 

Hi @martina yes I have option 880 which was a nice surprise - will have to keep spare key batteries from now on. Appreciate the feedback on numbers, I may just have to do a FOI request and see what that brings up.

 

Hello Ged. What colour does it say on your V5. On mine it just says silver but the manufacturers description is Iridium Silver. Another member who also owns an SLK55 with a much lighter designer blue car than yours ( he was at Bealieu yesterday) tried an FOI and was declined the information. I don't think the DVLA records show anything more than the core colour.

 

DVLA only records base colour, red, blue, silver etc.
MB got touchy about releasing much more than base production figures some time back.

For those reading and wondering what colour option they have:
Open door and you will find a 3 digit (typically) code on the pillar.
This can be web searched.
Or, it should be on your datacard along with other factory fitted options:

Vehicle Data Card

Post your VIN & get your Data card

www.slkworld.com

Best we can do on here, I'm afraid.

Be aware of phrases like 'fully loaded'.
Often, choosing one option package eliminates another option.
Also, very few have the roof rack option fitted (although, this may have been removed from the 172 options).

 

So are you naming your 55 'Valentine' Ged?

 

Noticed in the list:

White 20-Jun-13 a 15298060002301
White 23-Jul-13 a 15298060002301

Same engine number - a slip of the fingers on the keyboard or two cars with the same engine number?

 

Noticed in the list:

White 20-Jun-13 a 15298060002301
White 23-Jul-13 a 15298060002301

Same engine number - a slip of the fingers on the keyboard or two cars with the same engine number?

That is an error on my part and the 20th June entry ending 2301 is incorrect and should not be in the list. You are the first to spot it.

 

Thanks all. I've just received my entry to the AMG Owners Lounge today so may follow this up through that channel.

Still no name for my fifty-five.

 

Hello,
The estimation 3500 units SLK55 AMG R172 (2011-2015) made, is it in the world ?

I can try to find it for France. One way will be to have the list of the SLK 55 AMG R172 which are still on the "road". But this data won't be take in account faded away cars.

Let see.

 

Hi
My 2016 55's engine number is 3615

 

My 2016 55's engine number is 3615

So when was Your R172/55 manufactured?