The car is just amazing now. I haven’t done much since the last post. It is super smooth and really fun to drive compared to my diesels. Handles like it’s on rails. When I acquired the car it was really loose in the steering and wandered all over the road. A lot of steering shake too. I knew it was wrong because Mercedes would never produce a car that drove that poorly. After all the repairs it handles like a Benz.

Sometimes it gushed hot air out the vents unexpectedly when the ac was on. It was a sticking duo valve. Common issue. I cleaned it off and it’s great now.

I had some issues with my vacuum door lock retrofit but that was my own engineering so I needed to refine the routing of the actuator bar a little. It works well now. That’s about it. The car is a driver now.

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
85 300D Turbodiesel 170k miles
97 C280 147k miles