Recent content by Andrew280SEL

Hi all, Haven't posted much lately (shock horror), though I have been lurking a bit. Anyway, at the risk of being run off the forum :eek:, I'm suddenly a bit bored and I've been toying with engine conversion ideas for that old yellow W114 280 some of you might remember I got as a freebie a...

Well truth be known I have heard the W140 series can be a very expensive money pit if you get one that has some of the typical issues known to the model (mind you that goes for most of our beloved Mercs, but I have heard things about the W140 in particular). Certainly if my dad was to purchase...

My dad has had his eye on a particular black W140 S420 (4.2 L V8) Mercedes. He'd already test driven it but wanted me to do so as well, just for the fun of it and so he could also observe things as a passenger (which pays off, he noticed some imperfections he otherwise wouldn't have, such as a...

AKA my guilty desire thread :) If anyone was to ask me what car I would buy today, given the opportunity and $$$, my response may surprise - it would be an old Mercedes diesel, something like a W123 240D or 300D or maybe even a W124 300D since I discovered they actually exist. Obviously I'd...

While not W116-specific (this is to do with my W123 230E), I imagine the principal is pretty much the same for any of the models of this vintage. While the 230E has been going great and had great oil pressure when I first got it, very recently the oil pressure started to dip a bit even while...

This type of thread has probably been done a thousand times over, but it doesn't hurt to revisit such things. What is it you love about the W116, or in the interest of inclusion, alternative model of Benz? This isn't meant to be the W116 Superiority Thread :D I know a lot of us here probably...

I'm just curious. We're all different and have different tastes. I guess the basic question is - when you acquire a car, in our case typically a W116, W107 or any older Mercedes, what do you do about the audio situation? For example, do you: Keep the original stereo (especially if you...

Hello everyone! I picked up my new (new old? old new?) W123 230E yesterday that I was talking about buying in the other thread. I've already fallen in love with it. That's something I love about these old cars - what should be, I guess, a fairly "vanilla" model as far as Mercedes cars go...

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well. I will soon likely be purchasing a W123 230E as a daily driver. I know, I know, a 4 cylinder German taxi, and white no less :eek: I can hear the "boooooring" hoots from here ;) But boring and reliable is kind of what I was after in this case. Not to...

Hi everyone, long time no see (as usual :o). Good few years since I've posted around these parts I think, I'm absolutely terrible like that when that thing called life gets in the way. I had a bit of a reminder somewhat recently though when, unfortunately, my Yahoo email account was hacked and...

Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this particularly belongs here, but we'll see how I go... I'm just wondering what sort of wind noise you guys would think is "right" for the W116, say at general crusing speed (I suppose the W107 would be more or less the same)? I mean, you should be able to almost...

Well I've acquired yet another W116... (though I got rid of my Falcon ute...so it works out OK :p). I don't have any proper pics just yet, just a teaser snapshot I managed to get with my phone.;) Any others didn't turn out right in the lighting conditions. I'll have to get some batteries...

This might seem like a silly question, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good antenna replacement for my 280SEL... You see a rogue overgrown tree branch (one of the trees in the driveway) one day decided to smack out my rear antenna... needless to say the antenna is broken in half...

I present the 7th W116 to join our fleet...... :D Just brought her over this morning on the Spirit of Tasmania, from Melbourne. :) 1979 450SEL 6.9. My dad and I bought it together, almost like an early Christmas present for each other ;) We got it here, washed it (which is why...

Hi guys, I figured I might give a bit of an update of where I am with my two W116's, since I've been inactive for quite a while before coming back on last week. Those of you from the ORG site may remember that my 560,000 km 280SEL, while a beautiful car in appearance, had a couple of annoying...