My gray market 1985 300TD came sans rear head rests so I got some nice ones from sedans, cleaned and installed them .

A member here who knows I try to sweat the details reminded me the wagon rear head rests look the same but on fact are slightly different in that they don't pivot .

Sigh .

Recently my local LKQ put out a really filthy 300TD and the head rests were nearly black with grimy hands prints, I bought them anyways, cleaned them up and swapped out the sedan ones, they look great now (thanx to Meguiar's # 41 cleaner and a lot of elbow grease with soft brushes and clean rags) they're Palomino color and the piping matches the fronts too .

Onwards, ever onwards .

Too bad I can't post the photos of them filthy and clean .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I wonder where all the 123 wagon headrests ended up?

Before I ever owned a Mercedes I was convinced the wagons never had rear headrests, as I have never even seen a photo of a wagon with them, and I have heard a lot of people say the seats don't work with headrests

well anyways my wagon came with nice headrests in the back and I was pretty surprised. The funny thing is I don't even keep the headrests in the car because you actually can't fold the back seats down with the headrests in place. I feel like I'm doing something wrong because why would Mercedes design the best car in the world but forget about this pretty significant issue?

You remove them and insert them into holes in the seat bottom after it is flipped up.

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1983 300D Midnight Blue
4 speed, W115 intake mani, non-EGR exhaust mani, KKK K26, 3 pc Euro bumpers, Lo-spec Euro headlights, AL129X, hubcaps, custom A/C

1987 300TD Smoke Silver
Euro headlights, thermostat relocation, coolant bypass mod, rebuilt Becker + Jehnert + Helix audio, OEM Oris roof boxes and surfboard racks, Euro towbar

1983 300TD Reed (Moss) Green / Dark Olive MB Tex Euro spec

1983 300TD Silver Blue / Blue cloth Euro spec, OM648 and 722.6, 15" hubcaps, W126 S2 brakes

I'm sure they wind up wherever the middle and third seats from old Suburbans and VW vans etc. all wound up....

Over the decades I've seen plenty of pristine middle & rear seats in the back of garages or sipmly discarded .

Most original W123 wagon owners were just too lazy so once the head rests were removed they never got re installed .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I thought only the wagons with the 3rd row seat had headrests that wouldn’t pivot.

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1985 300CD, CA
172 Anthrazitgrau/Palomino 154

1985 300TD, CA
040 Schwarz/Palomino 154/3rd row seat

1985 300TD, CA
473 Champagner/Palomino 154/Cargo cover

Probably so, I have no idea .

I have a seven passenger wagon and the junked one (in pretty good shape sadly) was too .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

My black wagon has the 3rd row and was missing the 3 headrests. I drove 5 hours each way to get the non-pivoting headrests from a salvage car (also pulled the 3rd seat and other goodies)

My gold wagon has the cargo cover, 2 headrests and they do pivot.

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1985 300CD, CA
172 Anthrazitgrau/Palomino 154

1985 300TD, CA
040 Schwarz/Palomino 154/3rd row seat

1985 300TD, CA
473 Champagner/Palomino 154/Cargo cover

Does your gold wagon have the place for the third head rest ? .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

It doesn’t. Just for 2.

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1985 300CD, CA
172 Anthrazitgrau/Palomino 154

1985 300TD, CA
040 Schwarz/Palomino 154/3rd row seat

1985 300TD, CA
473 Champagner/Palomino 154/Cargo cover

I'm always learning .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I thought most wagons didn't have rear headrests. Maybe if you got the cargo cover you got 2 second row pivoting headrests? The 3rd row option got you 3 non-pivoting headrests? Thats the way mine are.

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1985 300CD, CA
172 Anthrazitgrau/Palomino 154

1985 300TD, CA
040 Schwarz/Palomino 154/3rd row seat

1985 300TD, CA
473 Champagner/Palomino 154/Cargo cover