My wife is wanting a wagon (124 preferred but 123 will be acceptable) but we need the 3rd row seat. Can a 3rd row seat from a junk yard be placed in a non-3rd row wagon? This question is mainly directed at 123 wagons.

Thanks,
Clint

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Yes. The seat swap is easy, but it will be alot of work to install the shoulder seatbelts.

You also have about a 1:100,000 chance of finding any 300TD in a junkyard. You would be far better off to buy one that already has a 3rd seat.

You can find the seats on ebay occationally. But like Forced said, it's though to find a wagon in a junkyard, and it's even harder to find a wagon with the third seat, and let a lot harder to find one in the right color.

Don't give up on looking though. You never know what you can find in a junkyard.

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Take a look at some different junkyards. The one I go to all the time in northern RI has 4, 123 TD's. I don't remember any 124 ones, but there may be one. Two have blue interiors, one palomino, and the other I can't remember.

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1989 Volvo 745- 202K

So that's where they are all going! I have never seen a TD in the junkyards in Oklahoma or Colorado.

There is a blue interior euro 300TD that has a 3rd row seat on Rt 1 where it crosses under Rt95 in Woodbridge VA. If you don't like the price today wait until tomorrow and ask someone else, each person takes a different WAG at parts prices.

I have a palomino 3rd row seat in my parts car that I'm considering installing in my wagon. I'm just not sure that it's worth the effort.

-Tad

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There was a TD at the Pull and Save for a while. Stupid me, I should have gotten the head and sls system off it.

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1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
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1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
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1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I've put two third seats in wagons from junkyards. It is time consuming, but certainly worth it. There is one wagon in the yards here now, and last week there were two. Neither had third row seats.

see above thread for a person with an extra third seat.

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

My wagon has a 3rd row seat, and it doesn't appear to be original. I can tell 2 ways:
First, it is MB-Tex and my interior is leather.
Second, and this is where I'm heading, no headrests on back seats.

Without headrests on the wagon back seat, a child sitting in the 3rd row seat could have their neck snapped violently back in a collision.
My 9 year old daughter loved to ride back there, but I got to thinking about it one day, and what a neck-snapper that would be.
Something to think about.........

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Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

I agree with you about snapping the neck, but I have the same thoughts about someone riding in the back seat period. Very few W123s have rear-seat head rests. Like everyone here I am a perfect driver and would never run into anything, but the chances of getting rear-ended are significant, especially in a wagon with such dim tail lights.

Food for thought...

-Td

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There is a place in MA that builds all the hardware for a kit to put one in and I think its like $500. http://www.jjproducts.net/jj_products_htm/products/Mercedes/StationWagon3rdSeat.html

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IF you add the third row seat. ( I did it in my wagon from the second wagon I owned.) Make sure you install the second row headrests. The anchor kit can be purchased from the Dealer. It will have to come from Germany. Buy 3 headrests and install them. The pop rivet holes are already there, so it is an easy install for the receivers. Time consuming to peal back the cover and get set up but doable. I did my swap in one day.
Make sure you get the side panels for the shoulder harnesses. And the shoulder harness seat belts.

All W123 wagons are ready to receive the 3rd seat kit. So no drilling etc. But make sure you get the seat belt hardware and side panels.

Dave

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1982 300TD, 213,880mi, owned since Nov 18, 1991- Aug 4, 2010 SOLD
1988 560SL, 100,000mi, owned since 1995
1965 Mustang Fastback Mileage Unknown(My sons)
1983 240D, 176,000mi (My daughers) owned since 2004
2007 Honda Accord EX-L I4 auto, the new daily driver
1985 300D 264,000mi Son's new daily driver.(sold)
2008 Hyundai Tiberon. Daughters new car

Are the rear headrests (by this I mean the actual rest and the posts) different from the front?