Recent content by Kam1972

Thanks for replies, I thought I let the forum know its possible to rebuild these cars back but it's pain to get the parts etc as mercedes stop doing them plus they ridiculous expensive so I did this on budget of no more than £7k that's including purchase price of car at the time was £3.5k the...

A while back I asked this forum for some help about 3 years ago before lockdown. Brought a car on surface looked good but the engine had head gasket issues ecu problems bad wiring basically everything that's wrong with these cars I suffered from. Ideallyi should of scrapped the car but I thought...

Thanks for the reply yes the ecu pins are fine it seems that the transistors are at fault so ecu good but need to repair the transistors inside the ecu. Appreciate the advice.

All apologies for not responding back earlier but busy at work and getting the car ready I have the gasket job done aka oil leak in coolant plus all the ignition system over hauled etc. Basically what need is ecu as the wiring loom was a mess so got sileck to re do loom cheaper than merc...

Thanks appreciate the advice

Dear all Sorry for the delay but this project car is going for full restoration. Got the body work sorted out including brakes and discs and pads etc. Car passed mot with no advisors. Just had the wiring loom fixed by well know specialist sileck as when doing the head gasket the wiring was...

Thanks for reply, I am going to check the bulk head check and the fuses for corrosion and clean them up plus I am going to get the instrument cluster contacts all cleaned up. Thanks for the advice

Dear all I thought I update you all ; basically I had all the rust on the inner arches repaired by expert old merc bodyshop plus all the jacking points rust cut and repaired. The car flew the mot after I replaced all the brake discs and pads, now I need to resolve the head gasket as leaking...

Dear all thanks for replies sorry for delay in responding back but work commitments. Just an update the rust is being sorted out; old rust is being cut out and professionally resprayed on all the inner arches. Basically I am getting the sorted mechanically and body work rust removed. Next year...

Dear all thanks for comments, took your advice and took it to good repair shop; strangely they did the same thing aka checked the sills and jacking points and guess what they are solid as rock so the fundamentals are sound. I am trying source the parts as I going to cut the rust out and weld I...

Well going around bodyshop and getting rough quotes I am getting depressed as realistically this should been mot failure. As all the shops I visit agree that I did all the right checks basically fraudulent mot test stations used. As requested here are the pictures of the rusted front inner...

I just send some pictures after I cleaned all the rear and front dirt which has accumulated over the years appears the arches were never cleaned. Gave car good wash and clay bar the bodywork after 4 hrs still more work but looks better

Here some pictures of the car

I am planning to get the car checked at reputable bodyshop tomorrow and will take some detail photos of the inner arches and the areas that are affected. At this moment I got bit the bullet and see what my options are but realistically the car mechanically with the exception of oil leak is...