isobars
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- 300SD'79, E300TD '95, 300TDT '82, 280CE '84, 250L '84, 300SEL LPG '91, 300D '80, 300CE '91, 300E '89
Hi All,
I’ve been trying to avoid buying a W123 Coupe for a while; however, I can feel my resolve weakening. My initial objective was to buy a Turbo version from America, firstly for the turbo, and secondly for the lack of rust.
Prices there have gone high – or it seems so since I’ve been looking, but isn’t it always like that – so I thought I’d see if I could find something decent in Europe - forget the Turbo, use the savings on transport and tax to pay the fuel bill. As things are generally cheaper in England than in most places these days, I’ve been ferreting around in GB.
Anyway, I’ve noticed something - I think - during my search. Is it my imagination or did hardly anyone buy a Mercedes in the eighties in Britain with MB Tex? Everything seems to be cloth. It, (the cloth), wears terribly, and although some think the Tex makes you perspire it’s no worse in my experience than leather, and the problem with cloth is that it s(t)inks right in!
I have to say as well that it seems to be the world’s hardiest wearingiest thing. I’ve hardly ever seen a rip in it and certainly never any thinning. I put a set of ladders in my 116, (just). They rested across the parcel shelf and the arm rest on their way to the foot-well. I’d forgotten that my wife, bless her, had added a three inch screw and a lath to stop them slipping apart at the top. Part of the design was to let the lath rest on the screw preventing further problems. I digress. Upshot was that said screw (the head-end, that is) spent 24 hours burying itself into the armrest leaving a half inch indentation. Next morning – GONE!!! I honestly thought we’d had the fix-it fairies in.
So why have I posted this? Well, I’ve forgotten. So, clutching at straws….. as we have the production figures for every model and factory since the year dot somewhere on the internet, does a list exist of every colour painted and every cloth stretched round a seat frame?
Cheers,
Paul
I’ve been trying to avoid buying a W123 Coupe for a while; however, I can feel my resolve weakening. My initial objective was to buy a Turbo version from America, firstly for the turbo, and secondly for the lack of rust.
Prices there have gone high – or it seems so since I’ve been looking, but isn’t it always like that – so I thought I’d see if I could find something decent in Europe - forget the Turbo, use the savings on transport and tax to pay the fuel bill. As things are generally cheaper in England than in most places these days, I’ve been ferreting around in GB.
Anyway, I’ve noticed something - I think - during my search. Is it my imagination or did hardly anyone buy a Mercedes in the eighties in Britain with MB Tex? Everything seems to be cloth. It, (the cloth), wears terribly, and although some think the Tex makes you perspire it’s no worse in my experience than leather, and the problem with cloth is that it s(t)inks right in!
I have to say as well that it seems to be the world’s hardiest wearingiest thing. I’ve hardly ever seen a rip in it and certainly never any thinning. I put a set of ladders in my 116, (just). They rested across the parcel shelf and the arm rest on their way to the foot-well. I’d forgotten that my wife, bless her, had added a three inch screw and a lath to stop them slipping apart at the top. Part of the design was to let the lath rest on the screw preventing further problems. I digress. Upshot was that said screw (the head-end, that is) spent 24 hours burying itself into the armrest leaving a half inch indentation. Next morning – GONE!!! I honestly thought we’d had the fix-it fairies in.
So why have I posted this? Well, I’ve forgotten. So, clutching at straws….. as we have the production figures for every model and factory since the year dot somewhere on the internet, does a list exist of every colour painted and every cloth stretched round a seat frame?
Cheers,
Paul