Well, as some of you know, I ended up buying a Mercedes 300D on Sunday as a Daily Drive gas saver. The car is in amazing shape for the year, and has just under 220,000 miles on it, which is about half-life for this drivetrain.
I bought it from the 2nd owner, who had owned the car for the past 15 years and 100,000 miles. I have all maintenece records handwritten in a booklet from the past two owners.
I'm essentially going to be turning it into the "ultimate daily driver" by my standards. It will be getting full maintence performed, all leaks fixed, a complete detail, and the stereo from my Jeep transfered over. I've also got a few little fixes to make.
-guage cluster backlights do not work
-blower motor does not work
-A/C does not work (not sure if I'll fix this depending on cost of parts)
-needs a drivers front turn signal lens
-needs stock springs for the front because the previous owner accidently bought and installed lowering springs on the car
The stereo will be an Alpine CDA-105 Head unit. Not the greatest, but it was what I could afford at the time after my previous one was stolen. Subwoofers are Alpine Type R-12's in a sealed box with the new Alpine MV-1000 Mono amp powering them. I have Polk DxI 6.5" Speakers in the doors of the Jeep, but have yet to check what size they are in the Mercedes. If they fit, I'll switch them. If not, I'll buy new ones. All wiring will be redone (subs and door speakers) and will be using Kicker wiring for the subwoofers.
I will also be installing a boost guage so that I can begin adjusting the boost settings and finding a happy medium between retaining gas mileage and getting a little more power out of it
These are the only pics I have for now, I'll get some better ones in the near future.
I bought it from the 2nd owner, who had owned the car for the past 15 years and 100,000 miles. I have all maintenece records handwritten in a booklet from the past two owners.
I'm essentially going to be turning it into the "ultimate daily driver" by my standards. It will be getting full maintence performed, all leaks fixed, a complete detail, and the stereo from my Jeep transfered over. I've also got a few little fixes to make.
-guage cluster backlights do not work
-blower motor does not work
-A/C does not work (not sure if I'll fix this depending on cost of parts)
-needs a drivers front turn signal lens
-needs stock springs for the front because the previous owner accidently bought and installed lowering springs on the car
The stereo will be an Alpine CDA-105 Head unit. Not the greatest, but it was what I could afford at the time after my previous one was stolen. Subwoofers are Alpine Type R-12's in a sealed box with the new Alpine MV-1000 Mono amp powering them. I have Polk DxI 6.5" Speakers in the doors of the Jeep, but have yet to check what size they are in the Mercedes. If they fit, I'll switch them. If not, I'll buy new ones. All wiring will be redone (subs and door speakers) and will be using Kicker wiring for the subwoofers.
I will also be installing a boost guage so that I can begin adjusting the boost settings and finding a happy medium between retaining gas mileage and getting a little more power out of it
These are the only pics I have for now, I'll get some better ones in the near future.
off of old school mercedes.
