With 250K miles, the front seats of my 1987 300TD are very soft, although the MB-Tex is generally in excellent condition, appearance wise.

I'm sure others here have addressed this problem...so I'd like some tips.... or links to other threads about firming up the seats.

Please comment on this idea >>>>>>

I've seen a couple of cars in the wrecking yards with good firm seats....wrong color.. Sometimes my local self service yards have a "half price" day and the seats can be purcahsed inexpensively......so I'm wondering if would make sense to consider getting two nice firm fronts......????? ..and swapping my MB-Tex covers onto them. Is it possible .....?? ...and how much of a job it would be to swap.

Also, are the electrics usually swappable ("plug and play") between all the W124 chassis front seats...up through the 90's models?.

Warren C.

POOL NOODLES!!

They work AWESOME!

W123 Seat repair with Pool Noodles PIC'S

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91 350SD
14 F150 Eco
19 Fusion Hybrid
11 GT500

Warren, there are seat rebuild kits available for these cars.

Pool noodles do infact work well, but don't overdo. I pumped up our front seats so much I couldn't get my legs under the wheel.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

When I lived in Socal the local mbz indy gave me the address of a local upholstery shop that rewelded my springs and installed new foam,then reinstalled the seat cover,it was about 250 dollars,and it was worth every penny,Johnny (79 300d)

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85 300sd SOLD ,85 745i,95 740i,1972 Suburban,1938 International

I cut 1" long sleeves out of 1/4" copper water line (the stuff they sell for refrigerators). Slide it over one side of a broken spring, push the spring together, and slide the sleeve over the break. Crimp with pliers.

I'm 190lbs and the seat on my daily driver w201 has held up for more than a year so far with that fix.

Also, swapping seat 'skins' is not hard once the seats are removed from the car and disassembled.

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1973 280 - Current Project Car
1979 240d - 100% Stock
1982 380sl - 100% Stock
1985 190e 2.3 - Heavily Modified

The cushion skins can be replaced with the seat in the car in a 126. Maybe a 124 is tighter. I imagine same can be done with the back with the headrest off but I haven't done it.

Sixto