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My name is Dave, I'm a 21 year old student and I drive a W123 230CE. I'm a member on retrorides (although don't post much) and used to be a regular on pug306.net incase there are any familiar faces lurking??
I bought the car about 6 months ago now off of retro rides for £500. Spent another £450 getting it welded up, MOT'd and Taxed. Unfortunatley it has recently cost me more money than I should've ever spent on a car of this value....but who can put a price on love right!?
It suffered a bizarre overheating problem after spitting out its coolant all over the M3 one fine summers evening on my way back from Uni. Eventually turned out to be a dead rad... so that was about £300 spent. Then about 4 weeks later the head gasket went pop.... and after failing miserably at replacing it myself, £550 later it lives again. It was so expensive because I bought all the bits from Merc, and also a few other jobs had to be done such as welding out a mahoosive crack in the exhaust *****mold.
It still has some rather nasty issues, the main one being an almost comatosed gearbox which can be a real pain to live with. Theres also a few funny noises coming from the suspension. And its not looking too great on the rust front either.
I haven't really done anything to the car apart from spend money on keeping it alive. It was lowered when I bought it and also has a nice bassy sub where the first aid kit usually sits
SO... without further ado
Sorry for the old pics, and also the ever-so-slightly scummy backdrop. The cars unfortnatley looking a little worse for wear these days.
I hope there are a few W123 gurus on here, I have quite a few questions to ask!
My name is Dave, I'm a 21 year old student and I drive a W123 230CE. I'm a member on retrorides (although don't post much) and used to be a regular on pug306.net incase there are any familiar faces lurking??
I bought the car about 6 months ago now off of retro rides for £500. Spent another £450 getting it welded up, MOT'd and Taxed. Unfortunatley it has recently cost me more money than I should've ever spent on a car of this value....but who can put a price on love right!?
It suffered a bizarre overheating problem after spitting out its coolant all over the M3 one fine summers evening on my way back from Uni. Eventually turned out to be a dead rad... so that was about £300 spent. Then about 4 weeks later the head gasket went pop.... and after failing miserably at replacing it myself, £550 later it lives again. It was so expensive because I bought all the bits from Merc, and also a few other jobs had to be done such as welding out a mahoosive crack in the exhaust *****mold.
It still has some rather nasty issues, the main one being an almost comatosed gearbox which can be a real pain to live with. Theres also a few funny noises coming from the suspension. And its not looking too great on the rust front either.
I haven't really done anything to the car apart from spend money on keeping it alive. It was lowered when I bought it and also has a nice bassy sub where the first aid kit usually sits
SO... without further ado
Sorry for the old pics, and also the ever-so-slightly scummy backdrop. The cars unfortnatley looking a little worse for wear these days.
I hope there are a few W123 gurus on here, I have quite a few questions to ask!
. Well some do, a lot of the guys think its cool, and the odd girl too. But I'd say the majority of my friends don't get it all, which can get really frustrating after hearing the same "Why don't you just get a nice modern car instead of spending all your money on that old rusty thing!?" over and over.....
