Does this mean you’re not buying Walt’s W140 diesel now? Seller took the ad down (that’s a first!)
No pictures, it didn’t happen. Dan > On Jul 3, 2016, at 6:41 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I bought this today. The car that Jaime said he would be all over when it was > priced at $3500 or whatever. Anyway it is very very clean, no rust at all. It > is very simple 240d, the mice chewed the glow plug wiring harness and the > wiring at the ac drier. That appears to be it as far as I can tell so far. It > is currently wired with a button to activate the glow plugs. The battery was > dead so we jump started it and it fired right up. Everything works except the > ac and the fan does not turn on. Got to sort that out. It has cruise which > works great. All lights and gauges work. I had forgotten how slow 240s are. > Wow. Drove it back the 120 mile trip back home (not home yet stopped to eat). > It needs tires very bad as these are old and dry rotted, which is my biggest > fear with driving it but so far so good, they just vibrate a lot. I opted to > take the back road highway instead of the turnpike where I would have to keep > it to the floor to drive 80mph turnpike speed. Kept it to 65 most of the way. > When we got to Tulsa by then I had remembered how to drive a 240d so keeping > up with normal city traffic was doable but would have been difficult if not > impossible for your normal driver today. When we made the stop I turned the > car off but was not sure if it would start and it did, but with the key > turned off the charge light stays on, and goes off when you turn the key on. > So something is amiss there which is probably why the batter goes dead. I > unhooked the battery to make sure it did not go dead while we are eating. > > So I will get these small issues sort and see what happens. At the moment I > am in nostalgia mode but I have a feeling I may get bored and sell it. This > is the car you 240d fans would drool over I'm sure. I do not think I have > seen a 123 with this interior color before. > > 1983 MERCEDES 240D W123 4 dr sedan > http://tulsa.craigslist.org/cto/5660753347.html > > via cPro for Craigslist > iOS: http://tinyurl.com/cPro-iDevice > Android: http://tinyurl.com/CL-Android > > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
