How many people still have the original parts book/manual that came in the glovebox? Do models other than the 124 have them?

Only one of my cars ever came with one, the '87 300Dt. My '91 didn't when new so it must have been discontinued by then.

Curious, ...

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Gone to the dark side

- Jeff

I have one.

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

Is this a small little book I take it? If they came in 123's I'm sure I'll find one in my 82, it has everything still in the plastic star embossed sleeve, right down to the cruise control stalk usage card.

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Chris
64 190D R.I.P.
80 240D W/617 engine -for sale
82 240D -for sale

Same footprint as the owner's manual, just twice as thick.

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Gone to the dark side

- Jeff

I have one but it didn't originally come out of any my cars glove box.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

I have one for my W201. It didn't come with the car, but I tripped across it and bought it.

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'98 E300 DT
'87 190D 2.5 turbo RIP
'92 S500 Sold
'03 3.2TL-S A-Spec

Glovebox? I don't even have one of those! Unless we are counting the storage compartment in the center console. No, sadly mine (and it is a 124) didn't come with any of the original manuals, so now I am trying to locate some. If anyone has any ideas, I am open to them. TMAllison has suggested getting manuals through MBCA.org, so I am going to check there.

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'95 E300D ("Tank") - 231,000 miles
'79 240D ("Biscuit") - 197,250 miles (Sold)
'83 240D ("Ding-Ding") - 217,000 miles (Death by deer)
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Keep a vigilant watch on Ebay. My 500SE manual was in German and the car was not sold in the US - finally found one on Ebay AU in English.

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When I bought my '82 300D in '92, there was a post card in the glove box that had to be mailed in to MB USA in order to get the parts book. (The original owner never mailed it.) I figured that 10 years was probably a little late, but I sent it in anyway. A couple of weeks later, the parts book arrived in the mail.

However, since the book does not contain the actual part numbers, it's not all that helpful.

I had one that came with my old 300TD, but I sadly didn't get anything with my current car, not that the parts manual did much.

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I have mine, but some person wrote in crayon on the inside cover so i cant read when it was printed.

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1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

pearl black 1983 240d 4speed (Converted!@$$%) atleast the tranny was rebuilt.

I have a couple of them. One says on the front cover "MOD 123 then under that "catalog "G", and under that 11/79

The other one says "catalog F", no date, this one is spotless, not a dirty finger print anywhere. So further along in the alphabet is a later date?? Never have quite figured that out

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Another place to look would be a local auto swap meet, even though it's not an old hot rod, there are vendors there whom collect and sell old manuals from various places and cars, and you'd be surprised what you can and will run across in their caches.

I looked in my pouch today, no parts book just the owners, maintenance, and consumer information books, the red paper cruse control card with elastic string, and yellow plastic emergency card. The maintenance book shows the car lived in or near Stuttgart until at least 3/15/83 and drove at least 24K miles there according to dealer stamps.

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Chris
64 190D R.I.P.
80 240D W/617 engine -for sale
82 240D -for sale

Her's a picture of one that I bought, I told my friends about it, and one of them got one for W124 that he had.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=180159166009

100% feedback, too. Answers all questions, pleasure to deal with. Might ask him if he has any more. This was 3 months ago when I got one. It came apparently in the gloveboxes of some cars that were sold to people that lived far away from dealers.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I have mine - mainly it helps me see how parts all fit together.....

Mine has a black cover.

I also have a list of all of the service stations in the US and Canada that had diesel in 1980.

Not too helpful 27 years later

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Current Mercedes
1979 maple yellow 240D 4-speed

Gone and fondly remembered:
1980 orient red 240D 4-speed

Gone and NOT fondly remembered:
1982 Chna Blue 300TD

Other car in the stable:
2013 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI / 6-speed MT