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Originally Posted by Zacharias
I have never heard of someone doing this, and I can't imagine it's practical.
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Granted, there are a lot of things that are more practical than driving a thirty year old car. It would be more practical to sell the TD and buy a Jetta. But, we like the TD.
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You would have to change both the shifter assembly and the steering column lock mechanism.
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I'd be satisfied to stop at retrofitting the brake interlock, and leave the steering column alone. This would make it so that he or the dogs can't kick the thing out of park inadvertently. And, so that he can't intentionally take it out of park until he's a bit older.
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The former is doubtful, the latter more so, seeing as the shifters aren't even compatible between first and second generation w126, let alone cars designed 20 or so years apart. The openings probably aren't even close in size and shape.
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Are you speaking from experience, or merely sniping the idea? There are many parts that can be fitted from other models. The shifter in my W210 looks remarkably similar to the W123. It is in the same relative position to the driver, both have a knob, PRNDSL vs PRND1234, etc. I have no doubt that it is possible. The questions are which cars are the best candidates to get a donor shifter, and how much modification/fabrication is needed.
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If it's that much of a concern, why not just keep the car locked up and off bounds?
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Do you have children?
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This just came to me: Around here they sell parking stops for driveways that look like asphalt that are just high enough to stop a slow-moving tire, but low enough to be driven over easily under power. They are meant to aid in parking position for the spatially challenged, but I imagine you could install them so that you drive over them to park, then they would prevent roll-back once the tire was on the other side. Just an idea.
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Thanks, that's a little better than a chock, but doesn't solve the problem for places other than my own driveway.