87/88 Merc 300SE seat motor/ central locking parts needed..

[16610LV]

...can anyone recommend a good source? Mercedes no longer manufacture the parts anymore so the only option would be a breakers, I suppose?

My Dad's trying to keep the car on the road for sentimental reasons - he's owned it from new - full MBSH (I know, I know , he's crazy!) and about 120k miles on the clock at the mo.

Should he just give up and buy a new car?

All help/ advice appreciated.

Jason

[sneijder]

I have a sneaky feeling you may have been fobbed off by a not very enthusiastic parts supplier there, of course I may be wrong.

The seat motors will be Bosch units, and should be availiable still (at a price)

The central locking stuff will all be vacuum bits and bobs, and will hardly be any different to the last W202 C Class parts (save for the vacuum pump itself which will be in the region of £8 Gazillion)

PM me if you get stuck.

[16610LV]

sneijder said:

I have a sneaky feeling you may have been fobbed off by a not very enthusiastic parts supplier there, of course I may be wrong.

The seat motors will be Bosch units, and should be availiable still (at a price)

The central locking stuff will all be vacuum bits and bobs, and will hardly be any different to the last W202 C Class parts (save for the vacuum pump itself which will be in the region of £8 Gazillion)

PM me if you get stuck.

Thanks for the offer of assistance! I'll get in touch when my Dad gets hold of the part no. required. It was the main dealer parts dept that gave him the info, so they may just have been ignorant.

[jith]

16610LV said:

...can anyone recommend a good source? Mercedes no longer manufacture the parts anymore so the only option would be a breakers, I suppose?

My Dad's trying to keep the car on the road for sentimental reasons - he's owned it from new - full MBSH (I know, I know , he's crazy!) and about 120k miles on the clock at the mo.

Should he just give up and buy a new car?

All help/ advice appreciated.

Jason

You have a most uninformed dealer there.
Factory parts are still available for most of the sixties Mercs!
But try these lads, they have plenty of spares for the older models and tons of practical help too.

And your dad is not crazy; these were far better cars than the new ones!

http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/ind

[pentoman]

16610LV said:

...can anyone recommend a good source? Mercedes no longer manufacture the parts anymore so the only option would be a breakers, I suppose?

My Dad's trying to keep the car on the road for sentimental reasons - he's owned it from new - full MBSH (I know, I know , he's crazy!) and about 120k miles on the clock at the mo.

Should he just give up and buy a new car?

It's fairly sensible to keep it going I say. They're so solid it should run forever and not start falling apart, despite its age. As a plus they're pretty simple with little to go wrong and everything's engineered properly. Plenty of used parts around - like the vacuum pump if you need one.

If you do go for used parts from a breaker, many of us at www.mercedes190.co.uk recommend and use mercman www.mercman.net . One of their guys was a member on our forum until he went travelling..
They should have plenty of W126 parts.
There are other breakers but our experience has been mixed at best.