BillyW124
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2010
- Messages
- 2,892
- Location
- North West London
- Car
- W124 E320 coupe, W211 E320 V6 CDI, W211 E63 V8 AMG, R129 SL 280 V6, W215 CL 600 V12 Bi Turbo.
..Its going to be fun
After a little while searching ive finally found a 124 coupe doner vehicle to do my electric heated seat conversion. Ok paid a premium but im not talking life or death monies here.
I'll feel guilty when i strip it actually.
Any way forget that.
The bonus is that it has driver side memory and the interior leather is soft and supple without cracks, rips or scuffs. Quizzed the owner of the 140k w124 if its been treated or retrimmed. Not at all was the answer. Glad i dont need to re trim them . It also has the fire extinguisher mounted on the driver seat.
As my car is only going to be stripped out once im going to and Dynamat the enitre floor pan, then use dynaliner on top of the dynamat.
i'll also be carrying out the IR lock set conversion at the same time.
Now, the doner comes with headlamp W/W. I know its a crap system but if i physically have a car with it on why not. It will be a straight swap of all components and wiring, same principle as the heated elec seats.
My word bank of "$£*% words is ready to me unleashed when i undertake this all.
Now heres the my million dollar question:
I want to rip out the cruise control complete. The doner is an N reg E320. I have been advised that i cannot use this on a E220.
I really hope i can do this. Please can we shed some light on this?
...i'm still sane, im NOT touching the AC from the doner. Unless someone can come up with a bright spark idea on how to go about it with minimal heartache which i highly doubt.
The Coupe summary once complete then:
I have been speaking to a chap that has mentioned the EPC codes can be amended if an original OEM retrofit has been carried out. Will need to quiz more about this but he has said this has been done many a time as his workshop carries out mods like this.
When the next EPC update is due, the vehicle data card will be updated with the factory codes for options. I assume there is a fee for this service. But how cool is that?
Let the games commence.
After a little while searching ive finally found a 124 coupe doner vehicle to do my electric heated seat conversion. Ok paid a premium but im not talking life or death monies here.
I'll feel guilty when i strip it actually.
Any way forget that.
The bonus is that it has driver side memory and the interior leather is soft and supple without cracks, rips or scuffs. Quizzed the owner of the 140k w124 if its been treated or retrimmed. Not at all was the answer. Glad i dont need to re trim them . It also has the fire extinguisher mounted on the driver seat.
As my car is only going to be stripped out once im going to and Dynamat the enitre floor pan, then use dynaliner on top of the dynamat.
i'll also be carrying out the IR lock set conversion at the same time.
Now, the doner comes with headlamp W/W. I know its a crap system but if i physically have a car with it on why not. It will be a straight swap of all components and wiring, same principle as the heated elec seats.
My word bank of "$£*% words is ready to me unleashed when i undertake this all.
Now heres the my million dollar question:
I want to rip out the cruise control complete. The doner is an N reg E320. I have been advised that i cannot use this on a E220.
I really hope i can do this. Please can we shed some light on this?
...i'm still sane, im NOT touching the AC from the doner. Unless someone can come up with a bright spark idea on how to go about it with minimal heartache which i highly doubt.
The Coupe summary once complete then:
- Heated and electric with driver side memory seats.
- Headlamp W/W
- Fire extinguisher
- illuminated sunvisors (previously done)
- dipping RVM (previously done)
- IR Lock set (sourced)
- Rear electric blind (perviously done)
- Rear roller top cubby hole (sourced)
- Cruise control
- AC!
- Reach adjust steering column -I can get hold of the bits for it but not really too bothered about that if im honest. As im going all out why not. (does the reach work with memory)?
- a sound dead quality ride.
I have been speaking to a chap that has mentioned the EPC codes can be amended if an original OEM retrofit has been carried out. Will need to quiz more about this but he has said this has been done many a time as his workshop carries out mods like this.
When the next EPC update is due, the vehicle data card will be updated with the factory codes for options. I assume there is a fee for this service. But how cool is that?
Let the games commence.
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