Just pretend you have one of the off color interiors and get it painted up.  
Frosch is a green on green. There is no way DBAG was going to pump out a bunch 
of green consoles and dashes for that r107.  The factory color is grey, but 
they paint/dye it to match the Tex on the doors.  Now that the only available  
consoles are black and have split off side carpet, I do not feel poorly about 
masking and doing a rattle can refurb


clay 

2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap
1974 450sl -  Frosch - Two tone green
1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran
1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV
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On Jan 4, 2015, at 5:36 PM, astrasfogel--- via Mercedes wrote:

> 
> A replacement dash or console in any color besides black.
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> Sunday, 04 January 2015, 07:43PM -0500 from dseretakis--- via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com>:
> I've never had problems getting parts for a w123. What parts are hard to find?
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>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 7:29 PM, ernest breakfield via Mercedes < 
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com > wrote:
>> 
>> people seem to love to say this; but the long lists of parts we've needed to 
>> replace on our MBZs seems to imply that these cars are definitely not 
>> "bulletproof", as does the fact that there are local junkyards that they 
>> have so many of them that they won't take them unless you tow them to their 
>> doorstep and sign them over to them. they definitely are not "bulletproof'; 
>> the appeal (to us) used to be that they were reliable and perpetually 
>> maintainable while running B100, but the parts availability has changed to 
>> where that's not even any longer the case. sad, because we enjoyed over 
>> 125,000 miles on our 300D running almost exclusively BioDiesel (without any 
>> troubles related to the fuels), and don't know what we're going to get to 
>> replace it.
>> 
>>     in fact, we have a 20 year old J**p that's done far more severe duty and 
>> has more miles on it and has been cheaper to keep (even including all the 
>> modifications) than our MBZs, and an early 90's Toyota Corolla with over 
>> 325K miles on it that puts both of those to shame while still getting over 
>> 30MPG. sadly, we haven't had anywhere near as much trouble getting parts for 
>> either of those as we now do for the old W123.
>> 
>> 
>> cheers!
>> e
>> 
>> 
>>> On 04/Jan/15 13:55, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
>>> The main joy in driving Mercedes diesels is that these cars are
>>> bulletproof, which is something to enjoy regardless of where fuel prices
>>> happen to be.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes <
>>>   mercedes@okiebenz.com > wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Amen.
>>>> On Jan 3, 2015 11:23 PM, "OK Don via Mercedes" < mercedes@okiebenz.com >
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The fuel prices will continue to flip around for years to come. Do not
>>>> make
>>>>> long term plans, or regret past decisions based on the current aberration
>>>>> or variations in prices.
>>>>> Enjoy the Diesel engine for the technical master piece that it is, and
>>>> that
>>>>> it is not the same as every other engine on the street.
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