Oh dear lord, not another... (Merc W124 Estate content)
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Sorry. I know. In addition to the MX5, E39 M5 and some other stuff these are rapidly turning into the PH whole new thing
However, I'm so pleased with this brown bus that I thought I'd sling up a thread.
Motivated by several threads on here plus hooning around as a young boy in the back of a 7 seat W123 280TE I thought I'd buy one. I really don't need another car but hey, what the f
k.
This popped up about 15 miles from my gaff:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C603842
Not a bad advert but several things to worry about. So, accompanied by magic fingered Talkwrench (who looks after all my cars, builds most of them) we went for a look see. It turned out that there wasn't really a reason not to buy it so I did. £750. Then took it home for a wash.
191,000 miles, full service history (and I mean FULL) and a fabbo spec. It is properly loaded with kit. Full leather, orthopaedic electric seats, climate control, electric adjustable steering column, loads of wood and stuff. Most things I've tried seem to work too. Best bit is the general woodiness complete with Alpine wood stereo. Well, I say wood...
After the kids had finished using it as a climbing frame we all gathered round, my eldest daughter christened it 'Brando' and we gave it a bit of love. Sponges dropped onto floor, hard bristled brushes used by 3 year old on bonnet, that kind of stuff. It came up pretty well.
The most satisfying job was arming everyone with an old toothbrush, spraying all around the windows and panel joins with some cleaning stuff from under the sink and letting them get busy. The amount of crap that came out was amazing - moss, green gunk, leaves etc.
Then we just loaded up and went in search of ice creams.
That's it really. It needs some tweaking. Oil leak here, noisy diff there, 4Matic ECU needs changing (but got one with the car). Some of the problems can probably be fixed with a cup of tea, some others may result in me pushing it into a reservoir in the dead of night. Whatever, as I said to a friend I had a lunch last week that cost more money than this car.
It failed to start this morning, think it didn't like the cold weather. It came round though after a bit of WD40, hammer and fuse replacement action. So I slung it in the garage and will smoke around in it like Princess Diana's secret boyfriend for a bit at the weekends.
Oh, it likes a drink too. It came with just under half a tank of juice and I used most of that over the course of 70 hard pedalled miles yesterday.
If any other W124 estate nutters want a boot liner or roof bars I will, in proper Turkish market fashion, make you a good price.
However, I'm so pleased with this brown bus that I thought I'd sling up a thread.
Motivated by several threads on here plus hooning around as a young boy in the back of a 7 seat W123 280TE I thought I'd buy one. I really don't need another car but hey, what the f
k.This popped up about 15 miles from my gaff:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C603842
Not a bad advert but several things to worry about. So, accompanied by magic fingered Talkwrench (who looks after all my cars, builds most of them) we went for a look see. It turned out that there wasn't really a reason not to buy it so I did. £750. Then took it home for a wash.
191,000 miles, full service history (and I mean FULL) and a fabbo spec. It is properly loaded with kit. Full leather, orthopaedic electric seats, climate control, electric adjustable steering column, loads of wood and stuff. Most things I've tried seem to work too. Best bit is the general woodiness complete with Alpine wood stereo. Well, I say wood...
After the kids had finished using it as a climbing frame we all gathered round, my eldest daughter christened it 'Brando' and we gave it a bit of love. Sponges dropped onto floor, hard bristled brushes used by 3 year old on bonnet, that kind of stuff. It came up pretty well.
The most satisfying job was arming everyone with an old toothbrush, spraying all around the windows and panel joins with some cleaning stuff from under the sink and letting them get busy. The amount of crap that came out was amazing - moss, green gunk, leaves etc.
Then we just loaded up and went in search of ice creams.
That's it really. It needs some tweaking. Oil leak here, noisy diff there, 4Matic ECU needs changing (but got one with the car). Some of the problems can probably be fixed with a cup of tea, some others may result in me pushing it into a reservoir in the dead of night. Whatever, as I said to a friend I had a lunch last week that cost more money than this car.
It failed to start this morning, think it didn't like the cold weather. It came round though after a bit of WD40, hammer and fuse replacement action. So I slung it in the garage and will smoke around in it like Princess Diana's secret boyfriend for a bit at the weekends.
Oh, it likes a drink too. It came with just under half a tank of juice and I used most of that over the course of 70 hard pedalled miles yesterday.
If any other W124 estate nutters want a boot liner or roof bars I will, in proper Turkish market fashion, make you a good price.
Gotcha, hello!
Am trying to ascertain what the grinding noise is from the rear when I pitch the boat into a hard corner. Anything hanging low at the back, exhaust etc?
The bork may be strong with this one. However, I've already had £700 of use out of it so if it needs to go in the canal then I won't be sad
Am trying to ascertain what the grinding noise is from the rear when I pitch the boat into a hard corner. Anything hanging low at the back, exhaust etc?
The bork may be strong with this one. However, I've already had £700 of use out of it so if it needs to go in the canal then I won't be sad
Hello Mark - yup, loving this daft old shed 
- No, it's not a rear WB.
Sox - thanks, I wondered if it was the backbox. It is blowing like a wheezing old man at the join out of the final silencer to tail pipe. On hard right hand corners there is a noise. I get this in the rally Porsche but it's the rear mudguards - I suspect that this is the backbox (or a hanger) getting dragged.
Pretty sure the springs are ok but will check when Talkwrench has some ramp time available for it.
- No, it's not a rear WB.Sox - thanks, I wondered if it was the backbox. It is blowing like a wheezing old man at the join out of the final silencer to tail pipe. On hard right hand corners there is a noise. I get this in the rally Porsche but it's the rear mudguards - I suspect that this is the backbox (or a hanger) getting dragged.
Pretty sure the springs are ok but will check when Talkwrench has some ramp time available for it.
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