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Last Tuesday was an interesting day but the highlight was picking up Alex's 450SEL aka AAB007 and driving her home. For those of you not familiar with the car she is a metallic light green 1974 450SEL with an olive green interior and over the last few days I've crawled over her checking her out...

Grrrrr Driving the kids to the bus stop this morning I noticed that the rear suspension has gone rock solid AGAIN! This will be the 2nd set of SLS pods to have died in a little over 12 months and its really beginning to irk me. First set were shot when i bought the car and it was the left...

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As Ive mentioned elsewhere my introduction to Mercedes Benz was in the form of a 3 year old W126 300SEL in the early 90's. I drove this car on average 250 to 400 km per day at times working the car 7 days a week and put over 400'000 km on the old girl bringing her mileage up to over half a...

I cop a bit of flak driving Mercedes because I am neither wealthy or posh and I've often had to defend my choices to the great unwashed Falcodore driving masses and over time I developed a bit of a list. Id also like to hear your reasons. BTW this covers my personal experience with W126...

Gents I've decided to have a red hot go at sorting the fuel injection on my 450 and I need help. The issue is that the car wont start on fuel unless I have my foot half way down on the throttle. The car wont idle on fuel The engine runs fine above 2000 rpm, drop it below 2k and it stumbles...

I've started this to centralise my ramblings as well as the goings on with my latest acquisition a 1977 450SE, Topaz Brown. She was an eBay purchase and good value at $1600 although she was not as good as the photos I was still happy to public transport nearly 600 km to pay for her and then...

As I am slowly working through the "Sorting" of my 450 and yesterday I started on the possibly faulty duovalve on my 230TE so I am in coolant replacement mode but this brings with it the responsability of using the correct coolant type.............. I had noticed that MB use a variety of...

Yesterday I ran the car (Dual fuel) on Petrol for the first time. The issue is that it wont start on fuel and wont idle or run under 3000 RPM. When it does run it runs smoothly but the moment she gets below 3k she roughs and dies almost instantly. HEEELP! Tony