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Mercedes Benz - W123 230E & W124 200E - Both happy and working ok


Peter C

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According to a copy of Autocar magazine dating back to 1991, a pre-options W124 200E retailed at £19,020 whilst Ford wanted £19,435 for a Granada 2.9i Ghia. Take your pick.

Don't forget the extra cost for the MB-Tex and sunroof, I think by this late stage the electric front windows might have been standard. A radio wouldn't have been though , or an aerial !

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One car I regret parting with, a non sacco board 200E manual with keep fit windows and not much else. Hammered it through Germany and loved every minute. Sold it for 4 hundred quid because I was a bit skint and kick myself every day since. Sigh.

 

 

Watching this fred with interest.. and just as an aside, those rear aches ARE structural.. within 30cm of a seatbelt mounting I'm afraid..

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One car I regret parting with, a non sacco board 200E manual with keep fit windows and not much else. Hammered it through Germany and loved every minute. Sold it for 4 hundred quid because I was a bit skint and kick myself every day since. Sigh.

 

 

Watching this fred with interest.. and just as an aside, those rear aches ARE structural.. within 30cm of a seatbelt mounting I'm afraid..

I’ve just checked out the details, that car was last MoTd and taxed in 2011/12.

 

Shame, looks a honey in your photo.

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I’ve just checked out the details, that car was last MoTd and taxed in 2011/12.

 

Shame, looks a honey in your photo.

 I know, it was a cracker. A Pineappler bought it I think. I tidied up the wings, stuck some new boots on it and took it home to Stuttgart. No idea why it died so soon.

 

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Here it is at the  W124 Estate factory in Bremen.

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I bought one of those £47 Argos dual action polishers to buff up my Boxster but it made sense to practice on the old Benz first, plus it really needed a spit and polish.

 

I sprayed on a mist of water onto the panels and spent an hour going around the car using a five year old bottle of T-Cut, then a quick coat of Autoglym polish. The paint came up a treat, shines really nice. I touched up a few stone chips and now the 200E looks like new, well almost.

 

A few arty farty shots taken to celebrate my achievement.

 

This is my favourite version of the W124. I like the Bruno Sacco panels and much prefer the large grille, black bumper inserts and amber indicators, which the phase three cars lost.

 

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Nice. I've just realised looking at your pics my car is missing all its rear badges... perhaps I'll badge it as a 200 E?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More likely I'll badge it as a 430 'cos poseur!  :) 

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I popped over to the Enfield Pageant this morning. Easy cruising on the M25.

 

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This afternoon I stripped off the sill cladding and front wings.

 

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Aside from mostly innocent surface rust, the jacking points were found solid whilst the sills looked brand new.

 

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A quick tidy up with a wire brush drill attachment followed by a coat of Hammerite and job done.

 

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Tomorrow I’m going to tackle the front wings. I bought a 700g tub of filler today, hopefully that will be enough.

 

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More tomorrow.

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Great progress! Also spotted the OSF tyre is a conti- generally considered the tyre of choice for these and IMO a good sign, as are those sills- most of mine were never that solid even 10 yrs back.

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Great progress! Also spotted the OSF tyre is a conti- generally considered the tyre of choice for these and IMO a good sign, as are those sills- most of mine were never that solid even 10 yrs back.

All four tyres are matching nearly new Continentals. The previous owner didn’t give a shit about cosmetics but must have spent ££££ on maintenance.

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