Hey Guys, hope the New Year has been treating you well,

The other day, I decided to peruse my old service records and put them all on an excel spreadsheet for ease of access, but now it has me wondering: what should I watch out for/overhaul next?

Keep in mind this is my daily driver, the 1987 560 SEL (that I realized I have yet to post any pictures of) with 205,000-ish miles on it...

-The A/T was rebuilt and overhauled at 129,000
-Ignition Lock and the likes were replaced at 135,000
-Fuel Filter, Fuel pump hose, and fuel feed and return lines replaced at 138,000
-Fuel level sender and gasket at 140,000
-the antenna mast at 141,000
- headlight lenses and doors, valve cover gaskets, front shocks, tie rod assemblies, upper control arms, stabilizer bar to upper control arm bushings, ball joints, drag link, idler bushings, and steering dampener at 143,000.
-Starter motor replaced at 145,000
-Radiator, center and rear mufflers at 147,000
-All the belts at 150,000
-Fuel injectors, injector buckets, air tubes and fuel filter at 151,000.
-all the switches at 152,000
- Fuel distributor at 153,000
- O2 sensor at 154,000.
- Front carrier bushings and steering box at 157,000
- Valves were ground, re-calibrated the valve guides, cylinder heads resurfaced, both head gaskets, timing chain stuff, 8 rocker arms, idler air hoses, air pump check valve, upper seal ring, cam oiler, thermostat, upper housing water pump gasket, motor mounts, radiator mounts, injector cup o-rings, cold start valve gasket, 2 ignition brackets, oil pan gasket, oil level sender, new A/T fluid, A/T seal (had the chassis and doors lubed) at 159,000
-rear ride height sensor adjustment at 174,000
-O2 sensor again at 175,000
-and finally the blower motor and front left window regulator at 202,000.

I have no idea where I came up with the dough to even do that (tallied all up, it cost me over 22,000 )

I'm guessing my rear suspensions gonna need some work soon, but other than that, what else looks suspect?


Thanks again guys,


Carlen

Right on, a nerd after my own heart... thought I was the only one that did that

Right off the bat, I'd say fuel pump check valve and fuel pressure
accumulator.

Drive shaft flex discs.

Replace All the fuses.

Does your car have an OVP relay?

I'd like to see your spreadsheet to see how it compares to my own - maybe yours is better and I can get some ideas from yours. Thanks!

Haha, I had a whole day to 'waste', so I figured it would be a good way to spend it; maybe we'll find a cult of people who do it religiously

I totally forgot to put that I had my alternator and flex discs changed out at 204,000; I couldn't believe my eyes when I heard I was running on the original 23 year old alternator These old Benzes really are built like tanks!

I tried attaching my chart; it's an invalid file type...

I'll try an e-mail or convert it to an image


Thank for the input!

Color me "nerd" also. I have all of my cars on Quattro Pro with every expense detailed. The oldeset was a '87 300E that my mechanic bought. It has about 208K. I spent about 22K over 10 years on this car. My '91 190E (sold), my '93 320CE (money pit) and my '95 E420 (least troublesome) are all documented.
The good news is that none have any transmission problems.
Anziani

I absolutely love the W124; would I ever have to get rid of the W126, I would definitely trade her in for an E420 just like yours

Funny thing is, my parents have/had a '97 E320, and a 2001 E430; the E320 was in the shop for 6 months for its darned transmission at only 75,000 miles, and the E430 with about 68,000 miles shifts weird to me; might just be me not used to a 5-speed...