Oh, boy ~ I foolishly dropped the ball on a lister here who offered me one for the right price (I forgot plain & simple) and bought one from Mercedes via a third party who bent me over sharply however I at long last have one in my grubby hands .

Mercedes has FIVE MORE in the Fontana, Ca. whse. so if you need one ORDER IT NOW, here's the part # : 123-766-00-43 .

Under $100 list price .

Made in Germany .

Too bad I can't upload the photo of the new handle in its factory Mercedes package...

I hope my Foster boys don't break it.....

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I have never seen a broken handle, its the tab on the latch it screws to that breaks off. How are you going to deal with that?

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

Had a new mechanism piece made a couple years ago out of stainless...



Cost was about $25 but nobody seemed interested so I never pursued it further. Making a much stronger piece than factory is definitely possible. In fact the hole was undersized and drilling it out cost two drill bits so that stuff is tough!

-Rog

That is pretty cool. After driving these cars for 15+ years now I have a whole pile of rear latches that have that tab broken off.

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

As usual I missed the actual problem .

I have no idea how I'll fix it, maybe Rogviler will sell me a new piece....

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I'd love one, and I'm sure my friend's is broken too.

Please keep me in the loop on this .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Well ;

At least I fixed the third row seat belts and installed new support struts so the hatch won't be hitting anyone's head .

The Pelican hatch struts are the same manufacturer as the originals, only the printing on them is different .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I would be interested in buying the piece as well. Out of my three wagons, only one has the inner handle, and that is only because I lucked out and found an intact one in a junkyard last year.

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

I'll have to look into it again. I think there's a way to order it direct now. I have no interest in being the middle man for manufactured custom parts, I've seen how that goes.

Understood .

Please do see what you can find, my wagon is very nice and I'd like to get it fully sorted out .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Subscribing.

Could use one of these myself, but completely understandable in regards to being the middle man.

Mercedes is making the latch again. They’re less than $100. I bought one but didn’t compare the two to see if the design changed.

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1985 300CD, CA
172 Anthrazitgrau/Palomino 154

1985 300TD, CA
040 Schwarz/Palomino 154/3rd row seat

1985 300TD, CA
473 Champagner/Palomino 154/Cargo cover

Well, if anyone wants to try it, I got it set up on Shapeways:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/LHS7Q6FNH/merchandle9

Cost went up a little bit over the years. This is the same material I had it made in originally, their rendering is just really dark for some reason. It's been several years since I worked on it but I'm pretty sure I had fixed the hole size (this is the 9th revision). If not, use a drill bit you don't care about or use a sharpener on it. The only thing that's fiddly is taking the shaft apart, not losing the pieces, and then doing something to the end to keep it together. I think I was going to tap it for a screw but ended up peening the end over as it had enough material to do that. But there are several ways you could accomplish that task.

Originally I was going to have a bunch made, then do an exchange program basically. You send me your broken one, I send you a fixed one and fix the broken one for the next person. There would have to be a lot of people interested in that though. But if anyone wanted to do that you have my blessing.

? Anyone have the current P/N ? .

Is it any better than the originals ? .

TIA,

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better