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Old 11-21-2012, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by rmmagow View Post
Help!
Every time I go on Ebay to just poke around I end up buying parts for my old W123 even if it doesn't need them yet. Case in point, today I just quickly wanted to check prices for thermostats and ended up buying an unneeded thermostat housing assembly and a spare power steering pump! $100.00 spent and I still haven't bought the actual thermostat!

At least I didn't buy another W123 (been there, done that, got the T-shirt).

Oh Well, better to have it and not need it I guess :-)
From my experience - once you get to the stage where everything is in bits and you can't get in the garage anymore you kind of think...




...may be it is time to slow down a bit on the new parts acquisition phase and get building and writing up those DIYs...
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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!
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