W124 Wagon Build (The War Wagon)

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

Like MBBelgium says, the cracks are all in the finish, not in the wood below. It's trivial to remove the finish chemically, which would provide a nice smooth surface for the vinyl.

[MercTastic]

looking good, you should re do the shifter surround though

He'd have to buy a new wood trim piece. Or make one, it was all cracked when he put the vinyl on, cracks are showing through. I still think it looks a lot better anyway.

[Marsss]

looking good, you should re do the shifter surround though

[Azrial89]

Awesome, I was thinking about wrapping the wood in mine. Mine's not too far gone, not a whole lot of cracks so i'm undecided. Definitely take some more pictures of the interior with the CF wrap.

Here are some more of the CF. I got all of it done now except for the back doors, I ran out of material

[Azrial89]

Good job on this car!
Just a little trick to help you with the wood. If you had it laying in aceton, all the "paint" of the wood will go off, so when you wrap it after that, you wouldn't see any cracks any more. Just an idea

Thank You! Awesome, thanks for the tip! Maybe if i'm feeling uppity I will redo that piece.

Welcome to Oregon! I don't envy you guys east of the mountains with all that white stuff on the ground.

FYI, you may have to ditch your euro plate. OSP doesn't always take kindly to people who run with no front plate. Ask me how I know.

Thanks! I already love it here! I have missed the snow! But man, that mountain pass drive was sketchy as hell!!

Ha, i figured it was frowned upon, the car is still registered in Arizona so I will just play stupid if I get any grief for it.

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

Welcome to Oregon! I don't envy you guys east of the mountains with all that white stuff on the ground.

FYI, you may have to ditch your euro plate. OSP doesn't always take kindly to people who run with no front plate. Ask me how I know.

[MBBelgium]

Got rid of the wood with a cheap fix. Bought some carbon fiber wrap for about $20. You can still see some of the cracks underneath, but over all it looks 1000% better!! Still have to do the long trim pieces that are all along the dash and on the doors. But so far so good

Good job on this car!
Just a little trick to help you with the wood. If you had it laying in aceton, all the "paint" of the wood will go off, so when you wrap it after that, you wouldn't see any cracks any more. Just an idea

[Azrial89]

So we made it back to Tucson from Honolulu and packed up all our belongings and hit the road for the 1600 mile drive to Oregon, It was a great drive, we stopped at my grandparents house for lunch in Phoenix and made it to Kingman, AZ for the first night.



The next day we woke up to snowy icy cold as piss conditions and set off.



We drove through vegas and up the incredibly desolate East side of Nevada, at one point we hit a stretch of 124 miles where there were no services and I decided I could do it on less than a half tank... I ran the Ol' Girl all the way to fumes, I still have no clue how I didn't run out of gas. We made it to Twin Falls, Idaho and spent the night. We finished the drive the next day and made it to our new home for the next 3 months, Prairie City, Oregon. Somehow we conquered a Snowy mountain pass with all season tires on the rear wheel drive Merc with a 1500 pound trailer . The only casualties was a burnt out tail light on the Benz, and a burnt out brake light on the girlfriends Cobalt.





Our new place is down there in the valley somewhere!!

[Azrial89]

So if any of you guys follow my Buick thread you will know at the end of September my girlfriend and I moved to Hawaii and put our cars in storage and took the Buick North. So thats the big reason this thread has not been updated for quite some time. Well the time has come for us to head back and get our things out of storage and move to her next assignment as a traveling Doctor of Physical Therapy. With that being said, here is how I left her.



As you can see, I tossed on a hitch to tow our things across country. Also since I have been away from it, I have decided to pursue the avenue of bagged suspension and probably different wheels as well, but we will see where she goes, I will be sure to get a picture of the Carbon Fiber wrap on the finished interior. Thanks for hanging in there!! Ha

[Azrial89]

Awesome, I was thinking about wrapping the wood in mine. Mine's not too far gone, not a whole lot of cracks so i'm undecided. Definitely take some more pictures of the interior with the CF wrap.

Yeah, my wood is in pretty rough at this point, and the cracks really show through. But either way the wrap looks so much better. I will take some more pictures as I do the rest of the trim and get my ass in gear.

[Azrial89]

Im digging it, really love mercedes wagons.
How far are you planning on lowering it?

Thanks man. I'm probably just going to do the H&R Drop Springs. From my understanding it's a 1.3-1.5" drop which is not a lot, but pair that with the 18" AMG Monoblocks I want to get. It should close the wheel gap quite nicely. That and it's going to be used as my moving van for the next few years as my girlfriend and I will be touring the country

[StayONE]

Awesome, I was thinking about wrapping the wood in mine. Mine's not too far gone, not a whole lot of cracks so i'm undecided. Definitely take some more pictures of the interior with the CF wrap.

[Tortellini]

Im digging it, really love mercedes wagons.
How far are you planning on lowering it?

[Azrial89]

Got rid of the wood with a cheap fix. Bought some carbon fiber wrap for about $20. You can still see some of the cracks underneath, but over all it looks 1000% better!! Still have to do the long trim pieces that are all along the dash and on the doors. But so far so good

[Azrial89]

Mini update!!! Just upgraded the interior lights in the Merc tonight with bulbs from Superbrightleds.com I have used them before when I did the lights for my Buick. Great people to work with!!





Thanks for hanging around, bigger things are coming. I promise!