Hey all, greetings from Dublin, Ireland.
This is my first post but I have been using loads of your good advice for quite some time. Finally bought the car I wanted. She's a 1991 300ce24 with 140k on the clock with mushroom leather interior.
Couple jobs been done so far trying to fix poor cold start and rough idle, which seems to plague a lot of these older w124s.
*new distributor cap/rotor arm
*new H/T leads
*oil change
*new battery
*new spark plugs
*replaced ALL fuses (half were wrong resistance or missing!)
*checked OVP relay, fuse was blown
*ran injector cleaner through her
This has helped somewhat but she's not the best starter in the world.
There are some more jobs to be done - I need to repace oil and fuel filters.
The brake pedal is soft and spongy and brakes aren't good - I have replaced pads but need to follow up and bleed system fully. Cleaning the sensors got rid of my ABS light problem for those of you who haven't tried it. Now all engine management lights are off. Great!
Also, my seat belt presenters AND rear windows don't work. Could this be a related problem? Was presuming window motor/regulator might be to blame as the switches are good. But the seat belt presenters not working makes me wonder.[?]
Anyway to all those who helped and didn't know it, thank you, and to those who will help in future, thank you in advance!
This is my first post but I have been using loads of your good advice for quite some time. Finally bought the car I wanted. She's a 1991 300ce24 with 140k on the clock with mushroom leather interior.
Couple jobs been done so far trying to fix poor cold start and rough idle, which seems to plague a lot of these older w124s.
*new distributor cap/rotor arm
*new H/T leads
*oil change
*new battery
*new spark plugs
*replaced ALL fuses (half were wrong resistance or missing!)
*checked OVP relay, fuse was blown
*ran injector cleaner through her
This has helped somewhat but she's not the best starter in the world.
There are some more jobs to be done - I need to repace oil and fuel filters.
The brake pedal is soft and spongy and brakes aren't good - I have replaced pads but need to follow up and bleed system fully. Cleaning the sensors got rid of my ABS light problem for those of you who haven't tried it. Now all engine management lights are off. Great!
Also, my seat belt presenters AND rear windows don't work. Could this be a related problem? Was presuming window motor/regulator might be to blame as the switches are good. But the seat belt presenters not working makes me wonder.[?]
Anyway to all those who helped and didn't know it, thank you, and to those who will help in future, thank you in advance!