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Nov 23, 2015 16:13:19 GMT
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Back to the original question that D plate can be Googled with ties to the support vehicle IIRC. I think the connections with the D plate are just that the truck has been seen and photographed a lot, and even offered for sale a few times, with that plate on it and nobody seems to have spotted the registration year anomaly. You see this quite a lot on "Bring A Trailer". People get whatever UK plate they can get their hands on and put them on their ex-UK vehicle. If they personally imported it, or bought it from a fastidious owner, the plate is sometimes the old UK plate or at least plausible for the car in question. In this case (I remember watching this episode a few years ago and googling the plate) I think the fact that it's a yellow plate on the front means it's just a random plate that someone put on to add provenance or to try and improve the look. Chasing Classic Cars is one of the only car shows my wife and I can watch together, she says it's like the house buying/selling shows and likes seeing the non-mechanical stuff that goes into getting the cars ready for sale and seeing some of the people who have emotional attachments to the cars they're getting Wayne to sell on. Someone in a FB group I'm in knows Wayne from the pre-war car clubs in the US, says that the show doesn't tell the whole story about him. He's apparently hugely wealthy, very well respected in auction circles and has a huge personal collection, which is probably why he's usually not bothered when a car he's handling sells for way under estimate.
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Last Edit: Nov 23, 2015 16:14:32 GMT by Battles
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Nov 23, 2015 15:51:32 GMT
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It's not I'm afraid! There are a LOT of us in Edinburgh with W124s though. I drove across town one weekend and counted 7 W124s on a trip of only a few miles a couple months ago without trying. The capital of old retro Mercness! I picked mine up from Edinburgh! There are loads of them around Edinburgh but the owners don't seem to wave to other W124 owners. maxypriest, where in Ed did you get yours from? Oh, and I found the car with the odd wheel. Left a note with my number offering a matching wheel, got no reply...
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Last Edit: Nov 23, 2015 15:53:19 GMT by Battles
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Nov 23, 2015 15:30:27 GMT
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Anyone worth their salt with a TIG can repair that. I've had loads of wheels welded over the years (some much worse than that) and never had a problem with any of them. Would only cost about 20-30 quid, assuming you have the missing chunk. bit of a shady area Dez most places will not touch alloys with a bargepole, due to the potential liability of the repair failing. I think it probably comes down to contacts, and I'm not surprised that fabrication-ninja Dez knows someone who could do it. I think an ordinary punter like me, even if I could find somewhere to do it, would either get told "it can't be done" on the basis of them having to guarantee the work or I'd get a curse word job done and massively ripped off by someone because I can't tell a good job from a bad job.
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Nov 23, 2015 15:01:07 GMT
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Looking to get a couple of rear headrests, which aren't dirty or huge, but the seller won't end the auction early so I need to keep plugging away at them. Blue leather rears for a W210 estate, apparently unobtainable in the UK. They'll need posted in the UK to Edinburgh though but I propose to try and bribe you with booze to do that. Can I PM you if I win them and get your German address?
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Nov 23, 2015 14:11:28 GMT
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The best thing I've found for stripping the underside is a powerfile - use ceramic belts, they're a bit more expensive but well worth it. Something like this? www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Decker-350-Watt-Powerfile/dp/B000XSP72KI've never even heard of these before but they appear to be really useful. No good for old underseal though?
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Nov 23, 2015 14:08:42 GMT
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Great looking car, seriously good value in this spec. Good luck with the sale, hope you don't have to break it to get back what it owes you.
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Nov 23, 2015 14:03:17 GMT
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I don't think these are designed to do what you're trying to do (assuming you're trying to get serious lows). I looked at some videos as bortaf suggested and it looks like the range of movement might not translate to being very low without a big overhang at the rear unless you can change the distance between the axle and the airbag bit, or maybe the important distance is between the other mount and the airbag? Something to do with angles and maths I guess, which are both beyond me... Is it a cheap system? (I doubt it but I thought I should ask...) Cheap enough to buy it and maybe try and mod it to fit and change the angles?
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Nov 23, 2015 13:55:15 GMT
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I've only heard of alternators being refurbed if they're rare or very expensive new, eBay suggests a decent new MG ZR alternator can be had for £70 delivered. I can't see an alternator being refurbed for less than that (assuming at least a couple of hours work at £30-£40 per hour).
If the voltage regulator is cheap and easy to swap that might be worth a try for a quicker fix? Even if it doesn't fix that alternator, when you have more than one of the same model of car it's always handy to have something like that in stock.
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Nov 23, 2015 13:45:30 GMT
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This is going to look great. Great price for insurance too, I think I was paying more than that for an '88 Fiesta in the late 90s!
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Nov 23, 2015 13:41:01 GMT
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Great selection. Thanks for sharing the photos.
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Nov 23, 2015 13:40:17 GMT
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Kia Sportage? Gumtree shows half a dozen under three grand local to me, diesels too. No huge personal experience of them but I saw one being used quite seriously off road on a YouTube show (Dirt Every Day) so they must be decent off road. I drove one once when it was nearly new and it felt very car like. I've also driven Jimneys and the stuff like them and they're very un-car like.
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Nov 23, 2015 13:32:20 GMT
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On the central locking, it takes maybe 2 seconds after locking for all doors to lock.. maybe this is normal or is it too slow? 2 seconds seems to me to be in tolerance, I thought you meant a full five or even ten seconds when I suggested an air leak. Maybe TurboDieselWeasel can express an opinion on how long it should take for perfect central locking to operate?
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Nov 23, 2015 11:49:31 GMT
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420 Switchable Automatic Gearbox - I assume standard? - Yes, I've never seen one without the switch. 441 Electric Steering Column - I understand this to be a very expensive, unusual and desirable option. So, on my todo/done list I have: Slightly lumpy - injectors cleaned - When I spoke to the seller of this car he said he'd been told by a local garage that it could be a camshaft problem, I was hugely skeptical of that based on the symptoms he described. If the injector cleaning doesn't cure the lumpiness inspect the HT leads. Even the relatively simple M103 is sensitive (in my option) to the HT leads and rotor being in great shape and the routing of the leads gives the 'main' lead from the dizzy an unfortunate piece of metal to rub against and then arc against. Slow central locking - investigate - It's probably just an air leak. I'd ray rule out the boot being the source of the leak and then try the easy bits (under the seat etc) and just live with it. I found it hugely invasive to do. The boot is important to check because I've had W124s where the air line has failed and they available keys wouldn't unlock the boot so, err, that was that... It has a very slight rumble at speed - I find they're so quiet that rubbish tyres can be to blame. Swap front to back and see if you can shift the sound around to rule out anything more serious. door check straps going off like a gun as you open the doors I have LOADS of spares of these, I even have a choice of colours. For some reason they don't shift on eBay at all but I've sold a few via the Benz forums because lots of people join the forums when they go bad. If they're in good shape just get some grease on them and forget about it.
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Nov 20, 2015 21:59:53 GMT
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Chris Harris is brilliant. I can only imagine that he's not doing some "proper" TV show because he would find it limiting or it didn't suit him. Thanks for posting that. Only problem is that my 6 year old son caught me watching it and has only just gone to bed ! My five year old regularly gets the hump with me if he hears something interesting on TV from his bed or, the horror, later discovers that we were eating biscuits after he went to bed.
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Nov 18, 2015 14:00:01 GMT
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I lost a factory fitted Goodyear Eagle NCT5 from a six month old diesel focus, tyre off rim, rim destroyed, rim dug in and caused the car to 180 on a national speed limit dual carriageway. Needless to say, I was not running stretched tyres on my six month old Focus diesel. Tyres can come off the rims after they burst, stretched or otherwise. Whether or not it's MORE likely to happen would require data to be gathered on it.
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Nov 16, 2015 10:46:26 GMT
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I sold a couple of cars in late summer/early autumn and had lots of serious enquiries from carandclassic.co.uk but it's fussy with photos, I ended up having to go back in and delete and reload photos until I got them the way I wanted. I also had it on eBay but 99% of the enquiries were nutters.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:57:34 GMT
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That's cracking. Glad to see someone's done something constructive with the two-tone colourings on Benzes of that era. They never look right in the same colour as the top bit the slightly different colour never looks right either.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:54:42 GMT
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Have a drive of it first, my OH wanted one and we had a couple of test drives in different ones as I couldnt believe they were supposed to drive in the way they do. Same year Lexus or Ford Maverick are much nicer places to be. I think I understand what you mean, I had a C320 and got C270 as a discourtesy car from the dealer. It put to bed the notion that the straight sixes were smoother than the vee sixes. In an ML it should be okay though, they're much better insulated from everything noisy and dirty.
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Nov 15, 2015 21:51:34 GMT
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That's a great set up. Very clever.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:52:14 GMT
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That sounds like an excellent purchase. Try and find out if the trans fluid has been changed, these probably had the "sealed for life" box and the owner probably knew that was a load of cock and got it changed anyway but it's worth checking. Let us know how you get on.
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