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It is born and looking especially beautiful with the upright star. The new C class estate!

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Big Hello to the happy couple we saw in their 300TE-24 on the 15th of July 2014! You've got a lovely car! (fast too)

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Recently Spotted W124 cars

 With kind contribution from Peter Chan who spotted these TE's in Bedok and Bukit Timah! It's great to see these TE cars still running around

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I think thats the last of the W123 Estate cars...

It looks like its official. SBN2575T which was the last surviving W123 TE on my list, with a COE expiry of Nov 2014 appears to have been de-registered! 

First launched in 1977, this was the best estate car that could be had! Mechanical Fuel Injection, Self-Leveling rear Suspension and lovely chrome roof rails.

This is very likely how SBJ2575T looked like, if my memory serves me right. She was light ivory colour with beige interior.

Farewell!

The Tunnel 2013-2014

Just completed watching the British/French crime drama 'The Tunnel'. Excellent series with a rather excellent leading car! Ok, there were two leading cars, one was a S124 320TE and the other was a Porsche 944. Some nice fast driving scenes of the 124 zipping to save the world!

Check out IMCDB for more W124 spotting
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_648336-Mercedes-Benz-320-TE-S124-1992.html

Some info about the drama
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2711738/

Goodbye SBT154K

Hello eager followers. I know its been awhile. For the time being the most important update happened back in 2013 where we said goodbye to SBT154K. I'm sure there has been many more that have been sent to Mercedes heaven in the last two years.

It's May 2014 and the PQP for COE for Cat B cars is hovering around the 70-80k region.. not far off my 2010 predictions.

http://sgmercedesestate.blogspot.sg/2010/11/singapore-coe-prediction.html

Hopefully I'm right to see a softening in 2015.. I'm now going to scheme up new predictions for the years ahead.

Fast Forward

Ok so many things happened and I was in no mood to post..

1. We found lodging at the Dusit in Korat. Nice town. We also managed to find a replacement thermostat. Apparently mine for no reason snapped at the stem! had to fish out bits from the lower bypass hose.
2. Managed to get rest in Korat.
3. 3 days on and attempted re-entry into Cambodia. DID NOT WORK. "Meng... I will find you"
4. Parked the cars at the casino.. arranged for a taxi to Siem Reap
5. Siem Reap and the temples have made me speechless.
6. Several temples and a few Margaritas and were back in Poipet to pick up the cars left at the Casino
7. Drive to Bangkok
8. Found really cool night market. Rodfai market.
9. Left Bangkok for lunch in Hua Hin
10. Started loosing power again. top RPM 4500, then 3500, then 2500 then 1500. limped up hills, trucks and scooters overtaking me. took us 18-19 hours to get to Hat Yai. i'm going crazy
11. left Hat Yai very low on power. max RPM 3500
12. Arrived Kedah, Malaysia. RPM 1500 max. car gave up outside a European car breakers yard. (How appropriate!) Rafi was in heaven!
13. Managed to restart car and limp to a nearby town. Found a mechanic who attempted to swap my Fuel Distributor out.. (against my wishes). couldnt start the car.. then turned the air fuel mixture.... still no heartbeat.
14. Replaced my original fuel distributor and car fired up. We jumped in and left. car had difficulty idling though as the air fuel mixture was all wrong but it was able to rev till redline.
15. Drove on highway ok.. accelerated very well but would die as soon as my foot was off the throttle. We then made it to Ipoh.
16. The next day whilst leaving Ipoh the car died and refused to start. Called a tow truck to arrange towing to KL where I will meet with NPK.
17. Arrived in KL. went to City Cycle. retuned, petrol filter replaced and car was as good as new! |Lovely lunch and visit to a Crayford W126
18. Sprint to Singapore without incident... in fact driving better than ever before!