W126 560SEC Odd fault? please help!

[rcarr]

I have owned my 560SEC for over 3 years now, I have lovingly kept it and tried to restore it back to its original factory spec by sending it to our local MB Dealer.

After over £10000 of work done on suspension and a reconditioned engine, the car was running really well and I felt I was slowly but surely getting on top of the restoration and was planning to send it to our local body shop to get it resprayed.

I was returning home from work, sitting at a roundabout waiting for the road to become clear and all of a sudden the car left the roundabout (so an eye-witness says) and plunged through a set of trees over the edge of a car park then through another set of trees at full throttle! It came to rest, axle deep in mud still at full throttle and on fire! I was knocked unconscious and was rescued by the fireman who kindly cut me out. Luckily, this incident happened on the grounds of our local police station, the 1st policeman on the scene was able to switch the engine off, while it was at full throttle and still in "drive."

As stated previously, I was knocked unconscious and have amnesia from about half a mile before the crash until I woke up on the stretcher, not understanding why I was there and what happened to my beautiful Mercedes!

Can anyone shed some light on this incident? Are w126s known to become erratic, any advice would be welcomed.

Cheers

Richard

PS Please find a pic of the car as it lies in the recovery yard

Edited by rcarr on Tuesday 28th November 13:06

[rcarr]

Of course not! I have always wanted one since I was very young!

I wanna buy another one when I am actually earning proper money! Send it to Mercedes Benz Classic in Fellbach and get them to go over it with a fine tooth comb.

I also fancy making a race version of one! There is a guy who races one at the Nurburg 24hrs and the Silverstone 24 hrs!



PS All the emergency services people were suprised to see me walking about the next afternoon.

I had massive head injuries, suspected broken neck, fractured jaw and fracture skull, luckily after several x-rays showed nothing was up. Concussion, whiplash and burns on my arm from the flames.

I was more worried about the car than about my injuries! I didnt believe my Dad when he told me that it was a write-off, both of my parents went to the scene of the crash before coming to visit me at hospital.

Dad took me to the recovery yard a few days later to see if it could jog my memory, but still nothing! The recovery men were shocked I was walking about!

I'll never buy anything other than Mercedes! Never! If it was another car, I would be dead!

[rcarr]

Thanks for the consern Arif, but, my Dad is a doctor and they had all sorts of tests run on me before I left the hospital, they said other than the obvious damage to the exterior of me I was fit as a fiddle.