OK, need to start looking for another 140 pretty soon for the wife. My
old 93 was pretty good, had the typical ac evaporator problem which was
fixed under warranty. Im trying to refresh my memory about the 140's
and newer cars in general. I do remmeber the 92 and 93 had some sort of
I suspect the evaporator issue is the same as on the W124 chassis, a
fatigue failure at the crimp seal between the copper inlet/outlet lines
and the aluminum core. This has been fixed in replacement (OEM, not
aftermarket) evaporators.
The wiring problems were in the E Class models, with
My 92 500SEL had the wiring harness replaced under warranty at 35K
miles. Looks like it was around 2800 bucks installed but that was 10
years ago.
On 7/29/05, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yea, Im probably looking at 94 or earlier, maybe even 92-93 as they are
in the sub 10K range
The car in question was an S420, I think -- age unknown at this point.
The problem was the BODY harness, not just the engine harness (no power
to an O2 sensor causing intermittant check engine light idling).
The warning was for ALL the harnesses at the computers (including the
climate
Yawn, it's late just finished a 3 hour highway drive in the w140,
really nice to drive. So lets see...
a) 92/93+ had shimmy problems, fixed that by redoing suspension
system which lowered the car an inch or so.
b) expect the oem expensive blower regulator to fail, third-party or
later
Yea I knew about all those problems. Now wiring deal, so the 92's and
93's had the same problem?
John M McIntosh wrote:
Yawn, it's late just finished a 3 hour highway drive in the w140,
really nice to drive. So lets see...
a) 92/93+ had shimmy problems, fixed that by redoing suspension
Yes, my 93 had biodegradable wiring, which was replaced when it
shorted out and toasted the fuel mass air sensor.
the FMAS and wiring was 1K for parts, installation was relatively
cheap.
I'll note we drove it seattle to San Diego return at Easter, did I
mention it drives really nice.
-0500
From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 140's, new cars, degrading wiring etc
Yea I knew about all those problems. Now wiring deal, so the 92's and
93's had the same problem?
John M McIntosh wrote:
Yawn, it's late just finished a 3 hour highway drive
