Titivating my Mercedes 124
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The other side looks good. Looks good. There’s a repair kit available and I’ll get two. The Man is going to do the welding. There is a good vid here as well. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lh9S9m1rj0Y?rel=0 Might as well do the rear axle links while I’m at it...
Edited by r129sl on Saturday 8th December 18:50
Boy one and I stripped the rear passenger compartment ready for the repairs later this week. So far I am £1.17 and half a dozen cola bottles to the good. We did find quite a lot of moisture in the boot and there is a fair bit of surface rust here and there. This car is not going to last forever...
I bought new repair parts from MB at quite considerable expense (about £300 for both sides). I've also bought a loan of Dynax S50 for filling them up and dealing with other cavities. Hopefully we can get this sorted before the new year.
I bought new repair parts from MB at quite considerable expense (about £300 for both sides). I've also bought a loan of Dynax S50 for filling them up and dealing with other cavities. Hopefully we can get this sorted before the new year.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Great to see the exploitation of child labour education of your son. Nice work.
What he said!!Please also keep us updated with your soundproofing, I need to copy you and Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Congrats on keeping the car in such a good state, yes, it gets very tiring, but what would the pcp be on a car of that caliber?
I don't want a fifth car. The tax and insurance alone add up to another £800 a year. I couldn't part with this one. I think for the time being we'll just keep running this one.
The fleet is a bit lopsided, really. My wife is using (wrecking) the E430 as her daily when it is supposed to be my long distance car. This estate car continues to serve its purpose well, albeit needs a month every year off the road to keep it on the road, as it were. The SL is a bit pointless, wife finds it uncomfortable, the rear seats are less than idea for the children, and it isn't an out-and-out sports car. And I feel a tit driving a cabriolet. Then the 190 is not being used as a daily by my wife, has been pressed into service as such by me, but isn't really fast or refined enough for my use.
I think the idea fleet would be:
300 CE (in an ideal world a Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 targa in cream over brown cloth with tele dials and no spoilers)
300 TE 4Matic or w210 E55 AMG estate
190 E 2.6 or some other interesting saloon like a w124 or w210 E430
On this analysis I should chop the SL and the 190 and get a 124 coupé. But then I have owned the SL for over 15 years and 250,000miles so that would be silly.
Of course, tomorrow is another day with another ideal fleet.
The fleet is a bit lopsided, really. My wife is using (wrecking) the E430 as her daily when it is supposed to be my long distance car. This estate car continues to serve its purpose well, albeit needs a month every year off the road to keep it on the road, as it were. The SL is a bit pointless, wife finds it uncomfortable, the rear seats are less than idea for the children, and it isn't an out-and-out sports car. And I feel a tit driving a cabriolet. Then the 190 is not being used as a daily by my wife, has been pressed into service as such by me, but isn't really fast or refined enough for my use.
I think the idea fleet would be:
300 CE (in an ideal world a Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 targa in cream over brown cloth with tele dials and no spoilers)
300 TE 4Matic or w210 E55 AMG estate
190 E 2.6 or some other interesting saloon like a w124 or w210 E430
On this analysis I should chop the SL and the 190 and get a 124 coupé. But then I have owned the SL for over 15 years and 250,000miles so that would be silly.
Of course, tomorrow is another day with another ideal fleet.
For me, the 911 looks better the plainer it is. I absolutely love the no-spoilers and tele dials look of a 3.2. I did find a cream Carrera 3.2 coupé (with brown leather) on tele dials for sale in Cheshire about five years ago, sub 100k miles, they wanted £30k for it, which seemed mad at the time but a bargain now. I also recall seeing a Targa in white, on teles, roof out, tooling around Paris after midnight one sweltering July night. That was a cool look. It seems hardly any were specified without "sport equipment" (front rubber spoiler and rear whale tail) and Fuchs alloys. A lesson for today. Don't buy the Carrera S, buy the plain model.
In the fantasy, I'd have mine without front fogs and without a passenger side door mirrors. Maybe a coupé would be better than a Targa. I dunno. Academic, really.
924 Turbo is a forgotten classic. I love the vents in the front. Another missed opportunity was the 924 Carrera GT that languished for aeons in the Pistonheads classifieds at £20k. f
k knows what that would be worth now.
In the fantasy, I'd have mine without front fogs and without a passenger side door mirrors. Maybe a coupé would be better than a Targa. I dunno. Academic, really.
924 Turbo is a forgotten classic. I love the vents in the front. Another missed opportunity was the 924 Carrera GT that languished for aeons in the Pistonheads classifieds at £20k. f
k knows what that would be worth now.Edited by r129sl on Tuesday 18th December 21:53
r129sl said:
For me, the 911 looks better the plainer it is. I absolutely love the no-spoilers and tele dials look of a 3.2. I did find a cream Carrera 3.2 coupé (with brown leather) on tele dials for sale in Cheshire about five years ago, sub 100k miles, they wanted £30k for it, which seemed mad at the time but a bargain now. It seems hardly any were specified without "sport equipment" (front rubber spoiler and rear whale tail) and Fuchs alloys. A lesson for today. Don't buy the Carrera S, buy the plain model.
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In the fantasy, I'd have mine without front fogs and without a passenger side door mirrors.
My cabrio (1988, bought from the first owner in 2006) is spoiler-less (C00 so no "Sport," model per se there), although being an early MY89 (May 1988 build) it has 6x16 and 8x16 Fuchs, as opposed to the 6&7s that preceded. [IMG]http://www.coys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cars/1987-porsche-911-3-2-carrera/53_256_50.jpg[/I]
In the fantasy, I'd have mine without front fogs and without a passenger side door mirrors.
Even when I bought it, many said that I "had," to add the spoilers to it; as I like the lines without, I have, remarkably, resisted.
I would love to find a set of 16" Teledials but they are, I believe, rather rare.
I hold this forum - particularly this and the barge thread - responsible for my recent purchase of a 310k mile E300D estate.
And bloody lovely it is too.
Yes it's tatty, yes it's costing me money, yes it's less economical, less toyful, slower & less convenient than driving my other car or riding my bike to work.... but it just feels good.
r129sl - I hope your car is back on the road & eating up the miles, where it belongs. Bravo!
And bloody lovely it is too.
Yes it's tatty, yes it's costing me money, yes it's less economical, less toyful, slower & less convenient than driving my other car or riding my bike to work.... but it just feels good.
r129sl - I hope your car is back on the road & eating up the miles, where it belongs. Bravo!
It is back from being welded up. There is not much to see but various little bits and bobs were attended to at the same time as the subframe mounting points. Four new subframe mounting bushes were added, too. And my boy and I comprehensively coated the underside with various Bilt Hamber coatings.
I stripped the interior before driving it over to the Man's shed (above: cool shed). It was apparent that a lot of noise comes from the rear end of the car. I have accordingly set about adding quite substantial sound deadening. Under the boot floor and the rear seats I have added a layer of silent coat foil and bitumen, a layer of 12mm closed cell foam and a layer of mass loaded vinyl. This work was surprisingly easy. I expect it will make no difference whatsoever.
I stripped the interior before driving it over to the Man's shed (above: cool shed). It was apparent that a lot of noise comes from the rear end of the car. I have accordingly set about adding quite substantial sound deadening. Under the boot floor and the rear seats I have added a layer of silent coat foil and bitumen, a layer of 12mm closed cell foam and a layer of mass loaded vinyl. This work was surprisingly easy. I expect it will make no difference whatsoever.
So he has followed through on his intimations and has escaped from his maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles Tyneside underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a welder of fortune. If you have a rusty Mercedes, if no-one else can help you, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire The Man.
Everybody knows the mans a fool, he's crazy, he sees people that ain't there, and he's always talkin' in circles.
The sound deadening is a big success. No noise at all from the rear end, much quieter when the engine is running hard. I think I'll do the front floor and bulkhead next, though it is a bit trickier. It's such a good car, the 124. Everything else is rubbish in comparison.
The sound deadening is a big success. No noise at all from the rear end, much quieter when the engine is running hard. I think I'll do the front floor and bulkhead next, though it is a bit trickier. It's such a good car, the 124. Everything else is rubbish in comparison.
Passed its MOT today at 379,975 miles. It turned 380,000 on the way home.
I also had new front discs and pads fitted and new brake fluid. One slider on each front calliper was seized, which was giving a very soft brake pedal and probable had something to do with the discs warping in the first place. It is driving great again. Tomorrow, however, I am in the 463 G-Wagen in order to collect a massive tipping trailer for my log transportation activities. We did three loads with this (excellent) little trailer yesterday but something with more capacity will be better.
I also had new front discs and pads fitted and new brake fluid. One slider on each front calliper was seized, which was giving a very soft brake pedal and probable had something to do with the discs warping in the first place. It is driving great again. Tomorrow, however, I am in the 463 G-Wagen in order to collect a massive tipping trailer for my log transportation activities. We did three loads with this (excellent) little trailer yesterday but something with more capacity will be better.
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