Photoman - 6/19/2006 5:00 PM

Better with colour coded bumpers

1996_S500 - 6/20/2006 3:28 PM



yea, that looks a lot better. So are you going to do it? :raiseeyebrows:

Photoman - 6/20/2006 1:48 AM

or just code the bumpers and tint the windows

Photoman - 6/20/2006 1:53 AM



Looking at ideas at the moment. I'm seeing my painter on Friday. At the very least get the bumpers colour coded.

Photoman - 6/20/2006 4:48 AM

or just code the bumpers and tint the windows

Photoman - 6/21/2006 6:50 AM

yes... owing 140s the list just gets longer and longer ha ha ha. Oh well.
Just as well we have a 124 that just keeps on going and going and going.
Dear I say it but it's a real Merc (photoman hides under desk). I had someone the other day saying that my 140 was the last of the real Mercs.... hmmmm. I said no it's the first of the bad ones. You should of seen the look on his face. Still it's true really. Mind you it's a long way to come from the 124s and 126s so the 140 isn't that bad compared to other cars. Just not as good as the 80s Mercs. But what car in the world is?

NZ Benz - 6/21/2006 6:19 AM



My recent gearbox drama aside I think the motors and gearbox are pretty good, its just all the little gizmos that go in teh car. Mine is running really well touch wood. I love the car to bits and would not have any other, I feel like a king in it, the drive from Dunedin to Christchurch was sooo fun. I managed to do it in just over 4 hours including a stop on the way. I think the comment about the W140 being the last good MB is kinda right in the sense of teh build qualitity and the materials. I mean newer MB have more gadgets and stuff but at teh end of the day it feels very plastic (at least the 220 I have seen and been in) I think the W140 kind of got lost in teh middle ending up with very good (in fact amazing) build qualitity and very average reliability.

Just as an aside alot of people have always had an opinion of MB here in NZ even before the 126 and 140 that Mb are very unreliable. When I got the car back in Dec I went to see my friend who is not from a poor family but they are not that well off, I have been friends with the guy for as long as I can think. Anyway he says to his Mum: "guess what Nathan got a new car, a big merc" his Mum says the usual wow that nice etc. Then the guys grandma pipes in and says is it old or new? I say "Well its a 1993 so I don't really know what to call old" (To my mind the W140 is not a very old car) The grandma then says (in a haughty voice) "Oh, well then its an old mercedes, I hope you can afford to fix it, they are very unreliable" I said, "you didn't like yours when you had one?" (Knowing full well no-one in that family has ever been able to afford one) She says: "Oh no not me I never had one" I thought thats right you stupid bitch, you know it all, don't talk down to me when you drive a toyota that is only a year or two younger than mine.

So there has always been that type of thing in peoples heads, not to mention how arrogant and snobbish some of these people are. Also on my drive the other day I see that alot of our big rigs here are now MB they must have to be pretty reliable right?

Photoman - 6/21/2006 9:35 PM

I love my 140... but it not built any near as well as my 126s that I have owned nor my 124 that I still own. My Merc mechanic also reckons that the 140 is not of the same quality. He actually warned me against buying one ha ha ha. He did check mine out and said it was a very good one. In NZ I think it is actually the opposite to what yousay NZBENZ. People have been use to reliable Mercs and are buying newer ones and are very disapointed. Ask mechanics and spare parts guys what Mercs they reckon are the best. You'll find that the 140 is one of the most worked on cars. It simply is not bulit as well as the 126 it replaced.... mind you neither is any modern Merc.

zeq - 6/24/2006 11:26 AM

In years to come, People with used W220 will say the new W221 quality is not build like the W220... :biggrin:

Photoman - 6/25/2006 6:47 AM

but the 126 is the best :)