Official Trunk Triangle club thread - Page 4 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

JimmyL · #46 05-30-2007, 09:00 PM

I am a member of the Folding Wagon Triangle Club, a sub group of the Triangle Club.
When I get a regular type for the Squash, plus the holding hardware, I will feel like a full member.....

Looks like a normal triangle

Unhooks at the top

Folds flat at the bottom. The middle part is plastic, and just folds up

Slides into it's handy dandy yellow holder, which fits together snugly

Has a holder in the jack/med kit area

And then closes up all nice and neat, hopefully NEVER to be needed.....

rs899 · #47 05-30-2007, 09:14 PM

I was going to say they weren't fitted because they didn't have to, but then there's the first aid kit.

I got my 2 , fittingly, from junk acquisitions.

The first came attached to the parts car 84 300D with the blown engine I still have lying around festering.

The most recent was last weekend at upullit. I spied one on the shelf where they collect things like oil, spray cans , booster cables, jacks etc that they find in cars. I asked innocently " How much is this item?" The gentleman replied "Things like that I have no idea and no way of making up a price for - so its FREE"

Pays to be a regular.

#48 05-30-2007, 10:00 PM

Interesting, I always wondered what that holder was for on the door.

KAdams4458 · #49 05-30-2007, 10:21 PM

I don't have one, but I suspect my car came with one, as the little lever for holding the triangle in place is installed on the car.

Can anyone tell me why it would have the lever installed on the trunk lid if it didn't come with a triangle? Maybe someone could explain to me why the car also has everything but a sunroof. It's not grey market, since I can't find a tag in the door jamb from being imported and modified.

Maybe a few details would help... The car in question is a '77 300D, manufactured in 10/76. That puts it early in production, so maybe even US spec cars got the hardware for attaching the triangle in the beginning? That seems wasteful to me, and waste isn't a German trait.

dieselbryan · #50 05-30-2007, 10:23 PM

Where can I order a warning triangle? dieselbryan

Mark DiSilvestro · #51 05-30-2007, 10:52 PM

With all the discussion about warning triangles, does anyone know why those, (and someone on another thread also said the emergency kits) were supposedly deleted for the US-market? Did some DOT regulator believe that during an accident, the emergency kit would fly off the rear shelf and injure someone, or that the citizens were too stupid to properly use an emergency triangle?

Happy Motoring, Mark

TheDon · #52 05-30-2007, 10:58 PM

they were mandatory in europe and not in america. The first aid kit wouldnt really fly. Ive done some heavy braking and didnt lose it.. Today I got a prime first aid kit from the junkyard.. Asked the guy.. how much and he said take it.. ^_^ no triangles though.. or fire extinguisher brackets.. .-sigh-

weird thing though. my new first aid kit doesnt say first aid or anything on it... the previous one I pulled from an 84 300D and it said first aid etc etc

I cleaned everything on my new one.. even the lil case of aspirin.. that still had it in there... Took out the bayer and cleaned it...

winmutt · #53 05-30-2007, 11:11 PM

Dumb question, did anyone else change the spring stop on the trunk lid? I did and one of them gave... Need to reweld it back

KAdams4458 · #54 05-30-2007, 11:17 PM

Wait, the first aid kits weren't in US market cars? I have one of those as well. Given its age and condition of its contents, I refer to it as a "gangrene kit."

And, we've dived off topic fast, haven't we? I apologise.

truckinik · #55 05-30-2007, 11:23 PM

My 82 280ce has one also. along with all of the rest of Euro drab. Cloth interior and all. No pics yet, but it made the Craigs list thread a few weeks ago, before I bought the car. So it's posted somewhere here. I haven't taken delivery of the car yet though, so have no pics of my own yet.

Boardmonger · #56 05-31-2007, 12:34 AM

Lance, the car you highlighted is my brother's 79 300d euro, no "diesel" script.

I got another triangle last week for $4. I sold it to my friend for $4. The e300 also has one in the trunk. Anyone with a wagon want to trade a folding triangle and package for a regular traingle?

rs899 · #57 05-31-2007, 06:31 AM

I thought all US cars had first aids kits- mine all do

The plastic holder for the triangle IMO indicates that the car was a European delivery model and it came with a triangle. The original owner picked it up in Europe , drove it around awhile and had it shipped back. Mercedes and others had a very popular program in place years ago to do that- you could help pay for your vacation with the savings on the car picked up in Europe. They built them to US DOT requirements, but still had to meet the driving safety requirements in Europe, hence the triangle.

Rick

tami · #58 05-31-2007, 09:10 AM

I have the little symbol in my wagon, but no idea how or where the triangle would work... now I know what to look for and how it worx!

Now I just have to find one... Please, if y'all find one for the wagon, get in touch

TheDon · #59 05-31-2007, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boardmonger

Lance, the car you highlighted is my brother's 79 300d euro, no "diesel" script.

I got another triangle last week for $4. I sold it to my friend for $4. The e300 also has one in the trunk. Anyone with a wagon want to trade a folding triangle and package for a regular traingle?

you keep finding those dang things.. I can never find any.. I want extras

Mark DiSilvestro · #60 05-31-2007, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rs899

I thought all US cars had first aids kits- mine all do

The plastic holder for the triangle IMO indicates that the car was a European delivery model and it came with a triangle. The original owner picked it up in Europe , drove it around awhile and had it shipped back. Mercedes and others had a very popular program in place years ago to do that- you could help pay for your vacation with the savings on the car picked up in Europe. They built them to US DOT requirements, but still had to meet the driving safety requirements in Europe, hence the triangle.

Rick

Someone on another thread claimed that the triangles and first-aid kits were both deleted from US-market cars due to some DOT regulation. Doesn't make sense that Mercedes would sell cars with empty first-aid bins.

My Euro-delivery '81 240D has the triangle and first-aid kit, while my '82 240D has neither.
The PO's teenager used the first-aid bin on the '82 as a junction-box for his monster-speaker cables. I've removed the amatuer audio wiring and hope to find a nice "gangrene-kit", as KAdams4458 called it.

As for the missing triangle, I'll use one of the pair of cased German triangles, that I rescued from a neighbor's trash many years ago. They're similar to the diesel-wagon triangle in the photo posted by JimmyL.

Happy Motoring, Mark