I just finished installing this door striker repair kit in my '82 300D. I highly recommend it to anyone else whose striker hard rubber parts are starting to crumble. Admittedly, the price is a little high for 4 pieces of plastic, but it certainly beats the alternative of buying new strikers.

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The hard rubber portion of the striker seems to succumb to the effects of age as well as wear, so the junk yard might not be a great option for replacement strikers.

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Let us know how they hold up in a year. What was the wait for shipping from Thailand?

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'85 300TD "Puff The Magic Wagon" - Rolling Resto
'19 Mazda CX-9 Signature - Wife's sled
'21 Morgan 3-Wheeler P101 Edition
'95 E300d - SOLD
'84 300TD "Brown Betty" - Miss this one
'81 240D "China Baby" - Farm grocery getter

Wow that's not what I'd call expensive considering some of the prices I've come across.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Do you just drive that into the existing striker ?

I find that most items I get from anywhere in Asia take 8 to 12 days to my door.

The exception was a much waited for camera cable from Singapore which took 27 days ... grrrr.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

I had good luck making the front half round piece and piece on the bottom out of polycarbonate. After I dremelled out slots for these inserts, I epoxied them in with Marine-Tex and used a #10 screw for the bottom piece.

This place also sells the cheapo exhaust hangers for $20/set. That's an amazing ripoff.

Tango, don't get me wrong, I really do want to know how these work for you long-term.

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'85 300TD "Puff The Magic Wagon" - Rolling Resto
'19 Mazda CX-9 Signature - Wife's sled
'21 Morgan 3-Wheeler P101 Edition
'95 E300d - SOLD
'84 300TD "Brown Betty" - Miss this one
'81 240D "China Baby" - Farm grocery getter

You have to remove the entire striker. (Mark two intersecting sides before removing.) Once the striker is off, the rubber insert pulls out. The insert consists of two components, one of which is reused. It's incredibly obvious when you have the striker in your hand.

For me, it was 12 days. However, parcels randomly selected for US Customs inspection can be delayed significantly beyond that.

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I just replaced 2 ...at about $12 ea delivered.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

How straight forward was the install? I love my W123 but HATE the way the doors DO NOT close easily without (to me seems like) slamming them.

The description was clearly not written by a native English speaker. Very funny.

Thanks for sharing this Tango !

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83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

It's very straight forward. Just a matter of removing the four striker screws, pulling the two rubber parts out of the metal housing and installing the new part along with the original soft rubber component. Just make sure to matchmark the original striker location; it is secured by a captive, floating nut plate and has a wide range of possible positions. (I used masking tape.) The only other possible complication would be seized fasteners and/or stripped internal hexes.

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Mine was the same way, I loosened the four screws on the frame "catch", shuts fine now.

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