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Mods - unsure what section to post this under? Hi folks, My vacuum pump located under the rear seat bench for soft close, central locking etc, has given up on my 1997 S420. I believe this is due to the motor burning out from running for long periods of time, trying to draw vacuum with leaks...

Mods - unsure what section to post this under? Hi folks, My vacuum pump located under the rear seat bench for soft close, central locking etc, has given up on my 1997 S420. I believe this is due to the motor burning out from running for long periods of time, trying to draw vacuum with leaks...

As titled I have a 98' S420 W140 without SLS, and the rear suspension runs too low. As you might be able to see from the (random, crappy) pictures, the rear has about 1" of clearance between the arch and top of the tyre wall. A couple of MB specialists, PCS, WGMB and Starwerx, have seen the...

I'm fairly competent with a spanner but without easy access to a ramp and a trip to Le Mans coming up, I had to turn to a garage to help me on a few jobs. Having not taken my W140 to a specialist before, I thought I'd share my experience of Wayne Gates. I had spoken to Terry on the phone and...

Hi All, I have decided to bankrupt myself in the most luxurious way possible, W140 ownership! My car is a late W140 S420 SWB. It's a 1998 model and I bought it recently at fairly low milage, 80k. It also runs a Lovato East-Fast LPG kit, with a smallish toroidal tank in the spare wheel well...

Has anyone got the facts on spark plugs for a later M119 please? I have seen this online; "Later 95-99 engines (>011674) with direct ignition require a different plug FR8 DPP 33+ gap at .040 (1.1) versus the earlier 92-94 cap and rotor engines (<011673) which require FR8 DC4 gap at .032...