The Ruination of A Once Fine 'Cedes - W124 Estate

[a3 german]

your c124 is sick! just love that wheels on these car..congrats!

btw, to rub problems, you could put some thiner tyres in front, it would help a lot

[Raarasutra]

I like my ESMs and how solid they are. Well made, great attention to detail - I broke 3 lug bolts on a rear without even kinking the wheel And that "GO TRACK THEM AND SEE!" argument is invalid - this isn't a purpous-built 600hp 'vette. :-)

[Marsss]

great work man!!

[willshaffer]

Should be saving your money for real wheels instead of getting that tattoo.

called the fuck out

[Raarasutra]

Why hello dar mr benz <3

Any hub issues with the front while fitting the wheels?

[Kielan]

Should be saving your money for real wheels instead of getting that tattoo.

[loekaaz]

UPDATE

When I bought the car it had what I thought to be a small rust bubble in the quarter that turned out to be a huge patch of rust that went from the middle of the quarter all the way into the door jam. Whoever 'fixed' the car the first time covered the whole quarter in bondo and rust spread because it wasn't sealed properly..

Welcome to the pre-owned w124 community, mate!:



Many of us have been there once...
Nevertheless: I like what's going on here

[willshaffer]

and peel that tint fool

[willshaffer]

New tails look ffffffffresh. 10/10 better without pinstripe btw.

[aLaFleur]

I'm ready for some legit wheels on this thing. I fucking love it though. Keep doing what you do man.

[244Brick]

I'm down for the real gangsta ish gOing on in this thread.

[DutchieSaxo]

damn that's taking dedication to a whole new level.

love the wagon!

[Jordan.]

Holy jesus that is some dedication!
Awesome car dude!

[Thom]

That's mint man. You can't even tell its been repaired. Dude is good at what he does.

[Youngthugga]

UPDATE

It's been a while, a lot has happened, but not really in the way of progress.
Once I got 'phase one' of the car done I was pretty content, just dailying it and loving every second of it.

Just fucking around doing dumb car kid things.


Then one night the unthinkable happened. It was a sunday night around midnight and I was bored so I went to cruise around and take pictures. And as I backed out to leave school some dumb drunk girl couldn't see my car "because it's so low and black" and backed straight into my rear driver quarter at like 20 mph trying to get to a spot.. She crushed the tailight and the trim around it and totally buckled the quarter.


Luckily she was super reasonable about the whole thing and agreed to pay to fix everything. So the next day we went to a shop I was recommended to here in Jax called Elite Custom auto body. It's owned by this dude named Stefan who does amazing work. The second he looked at it he noticed it had been repaired poorly before but agreed to fix it all. He quoted us $1300 and I dropped the car off that day.


When I bought the car it had what I thought to be a small rust bubble in the quarter that turned out to be a huge patch of rust that went from the middle of the quarter all the way into the door jam. Whoever 'fixed' the car the first time covered the whole quarter in bondo and rust spread because it wasn't sealed properly..



Stefan cut it all out and replaced it with fresh metal, fixed the damage, and resprayed more than he originally said he would while sticking to his original quote. The results were stellar. I was blown away.

The quarter that's been hit and fixed twice is now the best looking part of my car!
I couldn't have done it and stayed in budget if it weren't for my homie Jef out in Texas giving me an amazing deal on taillights so a big thank you to him as well. AND I finally got my new OVP relay in from canada so hopefully the car runs half as good as it looks now I'll hopefully be ordering my rear camber arms soon so update to come when those come in.
Til next time, Thanks guys.

OH and somewhere during this whole period I decided that low is indeed a lifestyle.