Bought my first 300gd M4 advice needed please
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By and large everything will be available through your local MB dealer parts dept, (ask for at least 10% discount).
Body panels and door skins are not expensive, but interior trim parts will be and not all interior parts are still available - carpets may be difficult.. Your best bet will be to try to use existing door cards and roof-liner, but have them re-trimmed in new material. Use www.ebay.de for hard-to find or expensive items.
There's a Haynes manual on the Mercedes 300D (W123), which should help with regards to the engine and transmission, if you need to do any work on those. Otherwise, I suggest that you find a copy of MB WIS + EPC on eBay (£5 - £10) for installing on a laptop or PC. Engine service parts, brakes and shocks/dampers etc can be found from 3rd party suppliers like Euro Car Parts and they stock the OEM versions too.
You want something like this.
It runs as a virtual machine on Oracle VM Box or similar (which you download for free from Oracle)
Mercedes tend to use good quality carpet material in their cars, but not sure that I would spend £1,000 and I can't imagine what they have in mind (as a might fit), unless it's from a later W463 model. Most W460 came with tough vinyl flooring and not carpet, so it may be difficult to find second-hand. However I am sure that if you have the remnants of your original for a template, a good car trimmer could provide whet you require. else look for used W463 interior carpets on German ebay.
W460 search
https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_Teppich+Fond+w460.TRS0&_nkw=Teppich+Fond+w460&_sacat=0
W463 version:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Teppich-Fond-Bodenbelag-Mercedes-G-G-Modell-G-Klasse-463-carpet-carpeting-2850mm/112621721411
Actually,
you might prefer this one, as it's sent from the UK;
WIS + EPC
The way to get genuine EPC/WIS is through the UK MB owner club. They are affiliated with MB and you get the same access as the dealers for about £25 PA I think. I have used the VM method with CD and subscribed with a VAT number at one time to EPC but the MB owners club now seems like the easiest way.
Didn't know that. Good to know. Thanks.
I am a member of the Mercedes Benz Owners's Association (MBOA), but not the Club. (different organisations)
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