After a two year break, sitting in the very back of the shop gathering dust, my trusty old 300E is back on the road as my drive to work car.

She is a 1988 300E manual transmission car. There were only a little more than 300 of these cars shipped as US models in '88 and a little over 700 in '86.

I looked for a manual transmission 300E for about two years and found this one in 1997. It had 70K miles on it then and was in really nice shape. I got COMPLETE records on the care including every receipt. I drove it around several states for a few years before buying a new manual tranmission C Class in late 2000. That car didn't work out very well with HUGE amounts of electronic related problems so got rid of it and went back to the 300E.

I got it out of the back of the shop a few months ago. I put it there with a bad A/C compressor and a few other maladies. After getting it out I had several problems including:

Cruise Control intermittent, then just stopped working altogether. I found a bad clutch switch, replaced that and have reliable cruise control.

I finally got my hands on the CORRECT compressor for the car, got it in, evacuated and charged. I was keeping my eye on the evaporator to see if it would leak any R12. After I was convinced that the system was tight, I recovered the R12, replaced the receiver/drier and did a THOROUGH evacuation and recharge. She still has the factory evaporator.

I had applied for a 500Km Award badge before putting her away and they somehow lost the paperwork. I sent off another app and received the badge.

I put brakes on the back including calipers, rotors, pads, and hoses. I had done the same to the front, not long before putting her away.

I just put a new set of Michelins on her. I have a rim clamp tire machine and Coates 1001 Computer Balancer. All of them were within an ounce and a half of balance without weights, but I got them all balanced within a few grams. I've had her to ninety and it's as smooth as silk.

This car has a 500E rear sway bar and heavy duty Bilsteins. I drive 20 miles one way to work over a really fun, winding and hilly road to town. This car eats up that road and makes it a very pleasurable drive.

Next year she will qualify for an Antique license plate.

Edit: I forgot to mention what I have left to fix on the car. Both right side windows are inoperative. The sunvisor hooks are pulled loose from the headliner. The plastic trim at the lower front corner of the left rear wheel opening is broken loose. The front lower valence is busted on the bottom. It's always something.

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I thought that from all the hell raising, people wanted me to post something non political.

Silly me!

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I enjoy your political comments. We think very similar thoughts. I don't post much, but I do follow the commentary.
Ironic that I also just pulled a car out of the back yard to put back on the road. My 87 300d is a set of tires and rear brakes from being on the road.

I hope you haven't been texting while driving ... especially with that phone.

Nice ride Larry.

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1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

It must be a lonely, lonely world you live in, A&R . . . it is a lovely car and I hope you enjoy putting many more miles on it.

Obama be praised, that's quite a nice car Larry. Bet she'd handle even better with some stickier tires.

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:LOL:

No that phone got lots of use in the late nineties, early 2000's. The analog towers are turned off now, but I just decided to leave it there for the nostalgia of it.

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Do you only need pads and rotors or calipers also? I replaced everything back there including the hoses. I'm really glad I did.

Keep us posted on your 300D.

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Multiple Personalities? I have three myself. How many do you have.

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Only one. The problem is that people often misunderstand what I write, or take it too seriously.

It really hurts me when the people I genuinely like and respect most, misunderstand what I write or take it too seriously.

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I am Guilty of that.

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Depends what you mean by "that". ...Or does it?

It could be OK Larry but, the perpetual blathering about Obama wears me thin. The other guy was just as bad. Seriously, WTF can you do about politics anyway and why alienate everyone here by going off about every little thing Obama does or doesn't do?

Whatever...I'm glad you got your Mercedes going again, I wish I had the wherewithal to do that but I don't anymore so, I wimped out and bought a (bleeding-heart liberal ride) CR-V.

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For some reason, this all reminds me of something my Stepmother said after she fell and suffered a concussion...the EMT crew was trying to assess her condition and asked her (she was a yellow dog, brass collared Democrat) who was president.

Her reply?

"That GODDAM*ED George W. Bush!"

Interesting...

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I already have those parts, including new seals for the calipers. Just waiting for a break in the heat we've had for the last week or so.
Wish I had room in my air conditioned garage. LOL