The stock w123 sedan rear seat has one long rod for the mounting, without any triangle piece. The triangle piece attaches to the kit, which is the removable bracket, and acts to release the headrest from being locked (same principle as the front seat headrest button release)...

Wagon parts are different due to seat design. I believe the wagon headrests are also different, the rods are similar to the front seat headrests; this is the case with the w124 wagon we have also.

Rear headrests for the w123 have the bent rods which allow the headrest to function at that angle and with the more slanted rear sedan seats (as opposed to the more upright wagon seats).

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Today I installed a front Dome Light with a MAP LIGHT. The map light is helpful in which it directs light to a small area for reading instead of lighting up the whole cabin. Great for not bothering your sleeping passengers . I seem to find these lights off a the 1984-1986 w201 190. It is a great upgrade for the later w123's with the timer delay Dome Light and 1st gen w126's.

EDIT: Based on MBeige's following post, I would think the map light was offered as an option.


Dome Light Comparison - Face shot and component shot



As installed.


Door light function


All On


Map light function







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Weird, my car came with the dome light with map light already. 5-second delay works perfectly too.

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Hmm. Good to know. Maybe that was an option. I have never seen one on a w123 or w126 that I knew was factory, just the standard Dome light. I always see them on the 190s though.

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i too have joined the club!

got a rear headrest "kit" off of e-bay, as well as a set of regular headrests in the cream beige tex. got the extra support bars from deliveryvalve, who, thanks to this thread, his pics, and his help, made this possible!

i did cheat a little in that i installed mine without the triangular bracket release button. if i ever need to remove these, i have to remove the back seat (not that hard really, and i can't think of a reason to ever remove these). i'm a little annoyed that the eyelet rings put in the back seat are not the right color, but i'll live with it and probably paint them later. sitting back there is more comfortable and the loss of vision is negligable.

and it looks great, an aesthetically pleasing, relatively cheap and easy mod!

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Nice! Looks great!


What color are the eyelets? Not black? You can get black eyelets from the dealer for $1.50 a piece. 126 988 01 82 (The retaining washers are $2.00 a piece. go figure! but you can reuse those if you can remove them with damaging it)



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It's hard removing the eyelets once you've installed them very snugly (to prevent the upholstery from fraying). Is there a trick to this?

Squabble, we seem to have the same droopy headliner problem at the rear half of the cabin!

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drat! i was hoping no one would notice....how embarassing!

i did think about that when i had the seat out in my yard but couldn't think of an easy or quick solution and wanted to finish this project. any ideas on propping it all back up nice and un-foldy?

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I just now worked on all four of mine , i used the handle from a toenail clipper to pry all around and got them of very easily . Got back seat headrests from a 126 , leather , Palomino Color in very good shape for 7 bucks each