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Hi, I would like to check something before I pull off the mirror components - when the wires are exposed how do you identify which cable connects to which, if they are all black and there is more than one cable broken, which I am assuming there are. I see from a picture in one earlier post that...

I would be lost without a paper, I buy an evening paper every day, and always a Sunday paper. Does anyone remember the good old, brown, waxy loo-paper. You certainly couldn't hang that in against the wall, mainly because it was in a box !!! The old stuff was really good, it did so many other...

Well, you have to have something to read while having a c**p, or a moments' solitude. If you are in Liverpool it is mandatory to use the Sun as loo-paper [this might be a bit of an in-joke]. Nothing like reading the news in the Sun or the Star before having a god old wipe :wallbash: parkman...

I think that this is an issue though, people do forget and that is the problem. If people didn't forget then the men who returned from the 1st world war would actually have had the brave new world that was promised them when they left to be slaughtered. Fifty years later a lot of these old...

As usual, the Western alliance has still not understood the concept of "regime change". This idea is a process whereby one, usually despised, leader is removed, and an agreed replacement leader is then installed, and brings back stability to a country, state, nation, or whatever. So far our...

We use a damp newspaper, because using mobile phones has become too expensive as we have to keep buying Dirithromycin to salve the injured parts. Anyway, I now have dermatitis from having to stick my arm down the crapper to loosen another stuck samsung. parkman

Hi, as I said in my post, I don't believe that most people realise that there is indeed a difference between the two panel fronts. But it is there, in the pictures. And I don't believe that one set of rings will fit both the 124 and the 126, it just doesn't make sense when you look at the...

I am very interested to know if anyone has fitted "chrome" rings to their W126, and whether it was straightforward, or as I have discovered, very difficult to impossible. I ordered a set from a company in Germany about a year ago, and I presumed that the rings would be made the same as the...

Hi guys, thanks for the replies. Mike, Can you give me a couple of days to get back to you. I happen to ring MB and they told me that the wiper arms are still available to order from my local dealer. I know that the will be expensive, if they are available, but I didn't think that they were...

I know that this thread has been used before, there was a posting about a year ago, but I need the items so I am starting a new one. I have a posting in the "Wanted" section also, but not everyone looks in all sections. I need left and right headlight wiper arms, and wiper blades with them if...

I know that this thread has been used before, there was a posting about a year ago, but I need the items so I am starting a new one. I need left and right headlight wiper arms, and wiper blades with them if available, for a 1991, W124, 260E. I don't know whether they are model specific with...

A last post to close this thread. The wheel bolts from the original Mexican Hat rims are radius seat, or dome seat, or ball seat - whatever you want to call them. But not cone, or conical. And the same radius, ball, dome, seat bolt is required for the Penta rim, whether the UK-made rim or...

It's strange, because I always thought that the long bolts, with the extension, were from the SLC's. I had Mexican Hat alloy rims on the car, they were the original rims that came on the car when it was new, and the bolts were the ball shaped bolts, with 28mm threaded section. They are the same...

I remember looking at these wheel bolts a while ago. I just decided that I would opt for the McGard bolts because of the guarantee period they offer on the chrome. It is interesting that you have ball seat bolts. Were the original bolts the same as the following: The following are the same...

Hi, I have just seen your post, and I would be interested in a couple of things. I have Penta's on my 1983 500se, and I used the original wheel bolts, and there was no problem. But I didn't make a note of whether the seat was conical or ball, and I notice that you say your original bolts are...

Hi, I did the same for a 2004 E220, and put in a full sized spare wheel, but the spare wheel cover where you can put tools, underneath the hard boot panel, had to be removed. I got a friend of mine to make a plywood panel the same as the one that comes in the car, with the boot carpet on it...

Thanks, Ian. I will get an e-mail off to McGard this evening, in the hope that the bolts will arrive before the wedding !!! parkman

I have ordered stuff from the States in the past, and I normally get them sent to Dublin as they don't tend to attract import duty. I had an item sent from Australia, about 4 months ago, and that came through the UK with Fedex, and I got a bill for duty from Fedex Northern Ireland, via their...

It is the McGard chrome bolts that I am buying. I have had to persuade McGard, in the States, to sell me two different lengths, including locking bolts. 10 are 28mm, the original bolt length as fitted with the Mexican Hat rims; and another set, 39mm, to allow for the new 10mm wheel spacers...

Hi again ! The wheel bolts that I am after are from an American company, who apparently make a much improved chrome bolt, compared to the older chromed items. I do agree about the quality of a lot of chromed wheel nuts and bolts, but there are a couple of specialist companies who seem to make...