Are crack free blue W123 dashboards really as hard to find as people are saying they are? I'm just wondering because I've got one that is in excellent condition and I am thinking of eBaying it. Even the seats that were in the car looked like they had never been sat in! It's from a car that had manual heat, so no climate control sniffer box on it.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles

I have one, ok not truly entirely crack free. There is a small split behind the instrument cluster

How's the driver's seat? I'm guessing it's all MBtex right?

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The drivers seat looks brand new, no sagging at all. MB-Tex.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles

Ooo i'm tempted. Really tempted. My driver's seat has been through the misery of a 220 lbs man for most of its life.

A newer one would be interesting. Heck I could make an office chair out of the old one.

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After three years I gave up trying to find a crack-free blue 123 dash. I bought a black one and painted it with SEM "Shadow Blue," a near-perfect match for the factory blue. Did the same thing for my 124.

Crack-free black 124 dashes are currently common in the junkyard here as 300Es start to come off of the road permanently. In a few years they will start getting rare, I imagine, as 123s are now.

An original crack-free blue 123 dash would be a valuable commodity, IMHO.

Jeremy

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Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
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-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

I have one on my 240. If anyone wants to trade me for a good black one I'm game. I can't stand the blue dash. I already covered with a black cover!

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'82 Diesel Westy
'83 Euro 300TD
Curtlo Viper
Yeti ARC
Surly long haul trucker

Dude, forget eBay, if your price is decent I'll buy it from you - and we live just a few miles apart. Let me know what you want for it...

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1984 300 Coupe TurboDiesel
Silver blue paint over navy blue interior
2nd owner & 2nd engine in an otherwise
99% original unmolested car
~210k miles on the clock

1986 Ford F250 4x4 Supercab
Charcoal & blue two tone paint over burgundy interior
Banks turbo, DRW, ZF-5 & SMF conversion
152k on the clock - actual mileage unknown

never sell to an eager buyer. having said that i do have a blue dash for a w201 (lhd). if anyone not eager wants one....

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I'm waiting to hear back from a couple of friends who might be interested in it. I'm glad you are local as I would love to not have to ship it! Also, W110 and W116 parts interest me, so a trade could work out.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles

Kind of true, and Jeremy is seldom wrong.

The only interior that has a black dash, is a black interior. Most are dark brown (from Palomino, cream-beige/mushroom, etc.), some are dark gray (from orion gray etc.) and look black until you put them in a black interior or mistakenly put a dark-brown one in a gray interior thinking it's black.

They are dark enough to look black until then. Same with 123s, 201s, et al.

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Sixto has told me the same thing but I have to be a Doubting Thomas on which interior gets a black dash and which gets something else. My 124 dash came out of a 300E with a brown interior; I tried like heck to make myself see it as "really, really dark brown" instead of "black." I held it in the sun, which usually brings out any dim colors, but it still looked black. In any case, SEM paint sticks to it just fine so it's blue now. Maybe someday I'll have an opportunity to see a "true black" dash alongside a "dark brown" dash and be properly convinced. In the meantime . . .

Jeremy

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Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

I'll take it.... Can I have the 5 speed too?

Seriously though if you want to part with either of them let Bastian know then he can call me and we'll drive up and talk about pintos again.

My car needs another gear...

Edit: My number is (425) 765-1480 for future reference.

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I bought the blue dashboard to resell, so it's available. I was wanting you and Sebastian to look at it first before I tried selling it.

Your car needs another gear? Then I suppose later you'll want a turbo engine. I've got one of those, too (with good compression numbers).

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles

Mike,

I also have a W123 trunk triangle clip for each of you if you want them.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles