My beautiful little "Buttercup", my 83 240D is very lucky to have lived this long and is entirely rust free, best I can tell. But it maybe has had a little too much UV and my door striker plates show evidence of a lot of sun and heat as the composition material which surrounds the hole the latch pin goes into is very bad, degraded and broken out. I need the drivers side front the most, but would like a whole set if I could get a whole set of four in very good condition. Jim

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The Old is in the New explained!"

1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA
1986 Mercedes W124 300E Black 5 spd 141000, and low mileage 89 M103 replacement engine
2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

There is a vendor in Thailand who sells small trim items in sets, including the striker inserts:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Passenger-side-Door-Lock-Striker-Mercedes-230-240-280-300-1237200204-/230834345310?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item35becc955e

I ordered a set and had them in about 8 days. I haven't got around to installing them yet.

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Now: 1985 300d │ 1980 300td │ 1978 300cd
Then: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

If the door is very hard to latch is it these striker plates?

Zacharia, have you installed yours yet?

Jim, is the drivers side different from the others?

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Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 82 240d, 83 300TD with five speed, 03 Dodge 3/4 ton with cummins six speed; I have had about 33 benzes. I am building a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup street rod at the moment in which I plan to install a 617 and a five speed manual.....or a 64 stude v8.

L/R & L/F are the same, R/R & R/F are the same. If you are in the yards, pull the rears for the front doors. the rears don`t get the use the fronts do.

Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! (this engine was installed only in 240D w/automatic transmissions)

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

85 300D 360K
84 300SD 270k
82 Datsun Kingcab Diesel 474k
80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 3:58 Diff. 150mph spedo 348k
78 240D

If the door is very hard to latch is it these striker plates?

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Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 82 240d, 83 300TD with five speed, 03 Dodge 3/4 ton with cummins six speed; I have had about 33 benzes. I am building a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup street rod at the moment in which I plan to install a 617 and a five speed manual.....or a 64 stude v8.