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Black Leather on a Green W124

phoenix_nights

phoenix_nights

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94 E200 T
hi,

Sourced some leather seats for my E200 T.

Question:

1. There are black however. Would they look horrendous on a green estate?
2. The wreckers didn't know if they were the 7 seater or not. Would that matter as the back 2 would be down all the time.
3. Would you need to take off the doors interiors to make it suit also
4. Not sure if the car was pre facelift...would that matter.

5. Am i mad trying to fit black leather seats into a Green Car!

Thanks........

Sourced some 8 hole alloys but he is looking for 350euros......!
 
well if my red leather went alright intoi a green car then you'll be fine :)

But you will need to change the doorcards and carpets I suspect or it'll look a bit odd.
 
And I always thought you were just red/green colourblind Sp!ke ;)

Seriously, though; I think black/green would look pretty good. Black goes with everything....

PJ
 
Thanks guys for your input.

Colour already is a light grey cloth. Front Drivers seat has fallen in on itself. Trying to remember what colour dash i have but think its black.

So apart from the seats i will need the doorcards. Is that alot of hassle. And the carpets. Is that much work. What about the boot?

Any one know of handy pictures of black leather in a W124.

Finally. What price would you roughly pay for them?
 
The grey carpet might be OK with black seats, I was just thinking it would be awful with creme carpets. The door cards are simple to swap... say ten minutes each (after you have fiugured out the first one).

Cost... an entire mint condition leather interior with all the bits including trims and carpets will cost you £750+ from a breakers.
 
No, if its black, its got to have black carpets, i saw a Ce for sale on ebay the other day , that had black leather and grey carpets and it looked 'wrong' if you get my drift ....

If its black leather, you gotta have black dash, door cards, and rugs, or its gonna look like you've not done it properly....
 
Thanks sp!ke. I was looking at your gallery pictures. Did you change part of the Dash aswell to Red. If my dash is not black ( i dont think all of it is now that i think of it) would you recommend that.

Would black have been an option on a green estate. Just dont wanna go against what would never have been an option.

How much would you be expected to pay over in the UK for a set of 8 hole alloys. (the guy said they were an option on the C class whereas i always thought they were just for the E class)

Sp!ke said:
The grey carpet might be OK with black seats, I was just thinking it would be awful with creme carpets. The door cards are simple to swap... say ten minutes each (after you have fiugured out the first one).

Cost... an entire mint condition leather interior with all the bits including trims and carpets will cost you £750+ from a breakers.
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Yep, I changed the whole lot carpets, dash, everything. If you're offered it all in the deal then go for it, its not that hard to do.
 
Found these pictures. Looks good but figure i really would need to get everything to black even the rear boot carpet.

Will get the alloys first(how much for 4 set of 8 hole ?), take some pictures of the seats and my interior and see what ye all think...

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On another site i found a couple of wreckers that deal with mercs and basically phoned him up. Otherwise trawl thru local papers.....Its just hard to get the kind you are looking for.
Have decided not to go for black as would really suit a black or silver car. Want cream or green!

Or might just wait and save the cash and buy (now that i know w124s much more) a 95/96 E200T in silver with grey leather. Thats the best combination i think followed by Nautical blue with cream leather.

jaymanek said:
where did you find the leather.. Have been looking for an interior for my 123 for ages!
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mine is dark green with black leather - the carpets are sort of charcoal...
 
phoenix_nights said:
Found these pictures. Looks good but figure i really would need to get everything to black even the rear boot carpet.

Will get the alloys first(how much for 4 set of 8 hole ?), take some pictures of the seats and my interior and see what ye all think...

200481.003.jpg


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Nice photos!

Wait a minute...

At some point I think Mercedes gave up on interior-coded dash tops and made them all black. Good move if you ask me! But the lower dash and centre console are colour coded. Removing the dash is quite a job, but doable if you have the patience

Door cards are easy - there are instructions on the site somewhere. Basically they lift off, so don't pull them

Front seats are easy but heavy. Rear seats in an estate are a little tricky but OK once you figure it all out. 7 seat kits are fiddly to retrofit but if you ignore the seats & belts the only differences are the floor panels (7-seaters have slots & holes routed into them) and the rear quarter trims (7-seaters have cutouts with a plastic trim for the belts)

A pillar trims are OK (pull then towards you in the direction of the back of the car). B pillar trims are a nightmare (two screws at the bottom, big clip at the top). C pillar trims in estates are tricky too, as are D pillar trims which snap

Rear floor in an estate is tricky till you see the two posidriv screws hidden in the carpet. Then the whole floor & carpet comes up in one piece. That's the way into the self-levelling

The offside rear trim with the flap for the jack & first aid kit is difficult to remove but doable once everything else is out

The headlining is a nightmare - leave it alone. The front windscreen trim with the lights & sunroof switch is OK-ish but the rear trim over the tailgate is very tricky to remove without breaking it

I think black leather would look great in a green estate but the carpet would have to be black. What shade of green is it? Tourmaline?

Nick Froome
www.w124.co.uk
 
Yeah nice photos....wonder who could have taken them !

From your instructions i figure it would nearly be easier to just go and buy the combination colour car that one would want rather than retrofit. Very good instructions in that they scared the hell out of me! The reason why i love mercs is the attention to detail and i would hate to retrofit and have some squeaks and rattles in the interior.

Thanks Howard for the link to the grey leather. Really nice and in really good order. Saw a silver estate with grey leather the other day which i thought was the biz. (my next purchase!)

Car is Tourmaline. (i figure there was only 2 types of green; tournaline and malachite green). Its not my favourite colour to be honest but theres not many E200T's floating around the place for sale in Ireland. Mine actually was imported from N.Ireland some years ago. ( I am thinking of buying all available models as they come to the second hand market and creating a monolopy of E200T's....just now need the money and space!)

I figured black in the end would just be too dark. Think that if i was going to go thru all the trouble of retrofitting i best wait for the colour that i want.....cream.

..in the meantime i bought this (girlfriend loved the car so much thought she would like it as a reminder)

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bolide said:
Nice photos!

Wait a minute...

At some point I think Mercedes gave up on interior-coded dash tops and made them all black. Good move if you ask me! But the lower dash and centre console are colour coded. Removing the dash is quite a job, but doable if you have the patience

Door cards are easy - there are instructions on the site somewhere. Basically they lift off, so don't pull them

Front seats are easy but heavy. Rear seats in an estate are a little tricky but OK once you figure it all out. 7 seat kits are fiddly to retrofit but if you ignore the seats & belts the only differences are the floor panels (7-seaters have slots & holes routed into them) and the rear quarter trims (7-seaters have cutouts with a plastic trim for the belts)

A pillar trims are OK (pull then towards you in the direction of the back of the car). B pillar trims are a nightmare (two screws at the bottom, big clip at the top). C pillar trims in estates are tricky too, as are D pillar trims which snap

Rear floor in an estate is tricky till you see the two posidriv screws hidden in the carpet. Then the whole floor & carpet comes up in one piece. That's the way into the self-levelling

The offside rear trim with the flap for the jack & first aid kit is difficult to remove but doable once everything else is out

The headlining is a nightmare - leave it alone. The front windscreen trim with the lights & sunroof switch is OK-ish but the rear trim over the tailgate is very tricky to remove without breaking it

I think black leather would look great in a green estate but the carpet would have to be black. What shade of green is it? Tourmaline?

Nick Froome
www.w124.co.uk
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phoenix_nights said:
..in the meantime i bought this
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but that has a cream leather interior - you should give it to me :)

Andy
 
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