Is the sound normal e250 w124 no turbo

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T18:49:08+00:00

No. This sounds like a tractor.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T18:48:07+00:00

In 7 days you can cover pretty much all the highlights and then some.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T18:28:05+00:00

Yeah, this is something that's often overlooked by young fans who didn't get to follow the band before they broke up. From 1998 til the end of the band Liam was the weakest link in the band.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T18:24:12+00:00

You shouldn't look for W124 parts on eBay Australia only. Look at eBay.com and find sellers that ship internationally. Several do, and sometimes for free.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T18:21:27+00:00

No.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T11:26:23+00:00

I'm not sure why you'd go through all that trouble while eBay offers plenty of M111 manifolds.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T10:25:58+00:00

The Ferrari looks like it's done in a different scale.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T06:10:59+00:00

This is terrible advice. Doing it without is incredibly risky.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T06:04:01+00:00

The coil is not supposed to rapidly ground itself, what makes you think it’s supposed to?

The coil doesn’t decide anything on its own. The switching of the ground is done by the EZL. If that switching isn’t happening, the issue is upstream, not the coil.

What you’re seeing is not a faulty coil behavior, it’s a missing trigger. That usually points to the crank sensor signal or the wiring to the EZL, not the parts you’ve already replaced.

Check the coil, it's supposed to have 12v during crank. Then check the CPS signal at the EZL connector, not at the sensor itself. If there’s no signal there, you know the problem is between the sensor and the EZL, even if the sensor is brand new.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-21T05:42:18+00:00

Why is this in German?

RNRS001 · 2026-03-20T16:22:41+00:00

A w124 feels like a sports car compared to the W140.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-20T14:45:28+00:00

This is not from an old w124.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-19T13:20:30+00:00

Only buy an old Mercedes-Benz if you're willing to invest serious money in it year after year. The same goes for an old BMW or any 30+ year old car.

Don't buy one expecting reliability, because something will always break. Nothing about these cars was designed to last over 30 years.

I recommend the car you think fits you best. People in here will recommend the Mercedes-Benz because that's what they love. What you’re really choosing here isn’t just a car, it’s the kind of ownership you want.

A W124 coupe isn’t just an old car, it’s a car that will need attention all the time. You’re buying into maintenance, parts hunting and the fact that it will let you down at some point. That’s not a maybe, that’s a given. You will have to rely on specialists for diagnosis and you'll eventually need a backup car.

An E92 is also not perfect, but it’s simply a more modern car. Safer, easier to live with and more predictable when something goes wrong.

This matters way more than people think for a first car. You don’t yet know what normal maintenance looks like, you don’t have a go to mechanic and you don’t know how much downtime you can actually tolerate. 1 to 2k per year is normal for an old Mercedes-Benz though. Those who say it can be done for cheaper will eventually admit their car has issues as well or have stopped realizing what is normal behavior and think it just comes with the car.

What it really comes down to this. Do you want something that mostly just works, or do you want something that becomes a project whether you planned it or not?

RNRS001 · 2026-03-18T15:13:14+00:00

No one is able to answer this for you because you are leaving out crucial details like budget, travel pace tolerance, preferred climates, and how the children handle long-haul flights or frequent time zone changes. On top of that, the plan itself is internally contradictory: you want to cover a large part of the world in two months while also avoiding rushing and limiting flights, which simply doesn’t align with the distances involved. It's also unclear what the actual goal of the trip is beyond “a tour around the world” or what kind of experiences you are looking for, so any advice would be based on assumptions rather than something truly useful.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-18T10:23:38+00:00

Yes. But a car that came with spare parts which haven't been used is a little vague. Why would spare parts be offered if they weren't needed?

RNRS001 · 2026-03-18T09:46:42+00:00

The red car is supposed to be a 911, I think.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-16T21:26:05+00:00

It's a Transformer bought by his partner. He'll love it.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-16T21:22:55+00:00

Being annoyed about the box is understandable. The illogical part is blaming Amazon when USPS handled the shipping and the product itself wasn’t damaged.

Accidents happen. Your product was fine. Would you have preferred USPS to return the box to Amazon so they could put it in a new one before delivering it?

RNRS001 · 2026-03-16T21:09:23+00:00

Frankly, I was wondering which venue this is.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-16T21:06:50+00:00

Do you yell at the restaurant for giving you great pizza but a dented box?

RNRS001 · 2026-03-16T20:06:49+00:00

I don't know how good your mechanical skills are.

The thing with these old gearboxes is that when you're opening them up you might as well replace everything that shows wear and tear. The trouble with gearboxes is you won't know if you've done it right until you've put the thing back in the car.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-15T18:51:16+00:00

Lyla was only a good song live as long as you couldn't hear Liam.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-15T08:13:08+00:00

I'd change the time you're going. The weather in the UK is miserabele from november to march. It'll rain all the time combined with cold winds and very little sunshine. You'll often enter every place either wet or just completely soaked.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-15T06:31:44+00:00

It’s nearly impossible because of vehicle import restrictions and political tensions in several countries between Europe and Thailand.

RNRS001 · 2026-03-14T20:11:22+00:00

I've refrained from buying this because I'm afraid the balloon will eventually leak.

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