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It was nice of Styria to send me a hello - how are things going message but I have been very busy with work, Lodge and Family. I stopped driving my 6.9 after a scare with malfunctioning brakes and it has spent the past two months on my hoist waiting for a spare day or two. I am pleased to say...

I've come a bit late to this posting but it shows the vast amount of work required to bring almost any 116 up to reasonable working order. Congratulations to Styria for the work as well as the photography. The carpets are beautiful and look more like RR than Benz and are the colour of the...

Here are a couple of old photos taken before the rear seat was re-upholstered The first is full vertical The second is full recline The difference is much more noticeable sitting in the seat than looking at it. Other cars of the same era had this feature - I remember purchasing a new...

I'm hoping for a major improvement in feel after the near failure I had a few weeks ago when the front brakes went awol while descending a multistorey carpark. I am replacing the master cylinder, one front caliper with new (Caliper had a broken off titty for the missing pad sensor wiring on...

I started my brake rebuild today and removed the servo unit in about 35 minutes. Three nuts are visible after removing the knee roll and easily removed with a 13 mm socket but the left upper one is not visible from underneath - but is when the instruments are removed and a couple of long...

This is a sum of my 2 1/2 years of 6.9 experience. 1) Spheres - unless you know the history of the car or else it is performing flawlessly they are likely to all need replacing so that you can start with a known quantity. They are in my opinion the single most important part to get right first...

What actually looks better in my opinion are 126 (?AMG) side skirts as seen recently on a 6.9 sold in the US. Sorry Styria - I actually like my "Black German Sausage" as the car presents now but if I end up with a full kit I would definitely paint it and remove that towbar that AMG69 went to a...

Having fixed my "canary" HVAC fan I was left with a recurrence of an old sunroof rattle as well as a new rear end noise which started when going around right hand corners. 1) Sunroof rattle - when I purchased my 6.9 it had an annoying rattle at the leading edge of the sunroof which then...

Since I purchased my 6.9 (2 1/2 years ago now) I have contended with a squeak at one or other fan speed which this summer has become almost continual and has often made me leave the car at home. This week a new US fan motor arrived from autoausaz.com and on a beautiful Perth day I started...

Anyway here are the fruits of this xmas trim job Old headlining This was dirty and a pale cream colour which was out of place to me in a car with black upholstery and gray carpets New headlining Much better match with the carpet and clean and shiny. Here is the old knee roll that had...

The mats were procured by AMG 69 and I do own a genuine early AMG steering wheel. Here it is fitted - with my grandson at the wheel about 18 months ago. I quite like the feel of the wheel but it blocks the view of the speedo and anyway after 30 years driving big benzes I actually like the...

For anyone interested in this quick fix here is a photo of the noodles with the skirt lifted. This first attempt used a somewhat anaemic pool noodle and when my wife arrived home with a more robust pair of noodles for my grandson I elected on another try. I tried replacing the front one...

Spent an hour in the shed in the cool tonight and made a start on removing the headlining. Removed the rear, front and side reveal mouldings. View towards the front from rear seat with mouldings removed. View towards the rear from front showing the headlining is just a bit in the middle...

I have made a start on the Xmas trim job and have a couple of questions for the experts (Hint Brent). 1) I have removed the sunroof panel trim and have found that my car appears to have had it's headlining replaced at some stage in the past. The headling appears to be a dirty cream although...

I purchased the following EPC + WIS ASRA electronic parts catalogue as well as the complete workshop manual that starts after the 116 finishes and installed it onto my then 32 bit XP computer...

This is the system in my car (pardon the rusty towbar arm) and it is resonant enough for a middle aged hood without the freedom of a twin system - but I am still expecting a tap on the window from Mr Plod at some stage. They are not easy engines to muffle. Bill

The last two Xmas' I have re-trimmed the front and then the rear seats courtesy of new Leather supplied by GAHH via Styria. This Xmas I will be replacing the roof lining and recovering the front kick panels and knee rolls in new black backless carpet. At present the carpets are in gray with...

The 116 has the steering that Mercedes was quite (positively) famous for feel and precision before rack and pinion arrived and changed the expectations. All RHD Mercedes Benzes for decades have a tendancy to run down the camber of the road and pull a tiny little bit to the left - this was...

While trawling through the internet I have kept tripping over this e-bay store with decals for a lot of models including 116. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200387558723&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT I purchased a set which duly arrived about 10 days...

And the final result The harsh light of the flash makes the colours look a little more different than reality plus my 3 year old grandson has helped by leaving some dust on the seats and his plastic lizard on the transmission tunnel. Bill