W124 320e

[fnkhan68]

Take the chrome arches off and star off the grill and it would be a nice looking example.

1993 MERCEDES 320 E AUTO BLACK on eBay, also, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 23-May-09 20:59:29 BST)

 

[Ian B Walker]

Needs the coil pack cover replacing under the bonnet though. I think, as it is, its a little optimistic.

 

[The G.F.P]

buy it

ill buy the front bumper & fog lights off it ias i need new lights

 

[NW_Merc]

buy it

ill buy the front bumper & fog lights off it ias i need new lights

You vulture

 

[Vlad]

Big money for a 320 with those miles, especially if the wiring harness is still the original.

 

[d w124]

Vlad:find me a nice 320 without bodykit than

 

[Vlad]

Just making the comment that an E320 is not an easy car to sell due to the wiring loom issues on these cars. Its highly likely to need a replacement wiring loom due to its age and that the cost of that (@£700 fitted) will often make an E320 or E280 an uneconomic purchase if its also a high miles car.

Granted you don't find many E320's with the bodykit, but a bodykit's not much use if the rest of the car needs £££'s spending on it......on the other hand if the seller has evidence of the wiring loom being replaced then things start to look up

 

[Roger Jones]

Although my mechanic has yet to detect any problem with the harness on my 1996 E320 Coupé (62k), I would have thought that any such problem would have shown up by now on a 1993 car with 170k on it.

As the owner of a late W124 with no harness problems as yet, I was beginning to feel very lonely, until the owner of a 1996 Cab popped up here to report the same with his car. I've wondered out loud before whether, by any small chance, MB fixed the problem before the very last W124s were built -- unlikely, I know, so I'll just keep my fingers crossed and carry on getting it checked carefully at every service and in between services.

 

[Vlad]

Roger I think you have been lucky....my E320 (1995) with 100k has just had to have its loom replaced....when it was taken off it was in a dreadful state.

What I've seen on other E280's and 320's is a number of them have had running repairs, ie have had bits of new looms spliced into the existing loom which is a stop gap repair, which is why I would want to know whether this E320 in question has had a new loom (if it were my money)....if its still running on its original or a stop gap repaired one, if it blows it would cost £2500+ which would be more than the car is worth.

Shame...as they are such great cars to run and own.

 

[kth286]

The first important sign that a loom disaster is imminent is when one of the coils goes down.

Whilst the top metal cover is off the coils that is the time to snip away the inner loose covering off the main coil feeds.

This will enable you to see if there are any cracks in the insulation of the feed wires to the coils. That is where the wires short across to each other.

All the other stuff about the 'look' of the loom where it is exposed to view is of very little consequence.

 

[manalishi]

I've just bought a '93 280E which has had the loom replaced (and other head and timing chain work in the last year).

Roger - if the premature degradation of this cursed loom is accelerated by exposure to heat, low mileage (like yours at 62k) may be the reason why yours is still OK?

FWIW, I lost count of the number of private and trade late-W124 sellers who can't be bothered to look in the (supposedly) no-expense-spared service history to check whether the loom had been replaced.

 

[vincenz]

Did the loom issue effect both saloon and coupe? Or was it model/body style/year specific

 

[Vlad]

Saloon, Coupe and Estate from late 1992/3 through to end of W124 production

 

[Roger Jones]

"I lost count of the number of private and trade late-W124 sellers who can't be bothered to look in the (supposedly) no-expense-spared service history"

The attitude of some vendors defies belief. The latest one on eBay said, in response to my polite request for a better photo, "If the photo and description aren't good enough for you, don't buy it". Trained in the John Cleese School of Salesmanship, no doubt (remember those training films from the early 1980s?).