Sänk juh wärie matsch! :-) (that's german for "Thanks a bunch!!"
)
Sooooo - more Turbo-Party-Time!
After some waiting and negotiating, E and I bought a '87 300D Turbo. Which was initially advertised for 1800€ - let's say at this point that we got it for substantially less money. So yesterday morning I met up with E. We filled up our caffeine stock for the next couple of hours - and took the Coupé on the Autobahn, direction north-east. Destination: Nürnberg/Fürth.
The only spectacular sigt was this Tatra which drove all the way from Swizerland!
Made me think "I need a 40's/50's car in my life..."
Anyway. Some hours later we arrived in Nürnberg, almost crashed into opposing traffic (damn you bavarian traffic routing!!) - and arrived.
The seller arrived some minutes later and opened the gate to a smal garage yard. One more door to open - and this was waiting for us:
Battery in, pre-glowing - *nag nag nag nag nag* - and I fired straight away. Albeit a bit noisy & smokey. Nothing like the smooth idle of my own car. But - all seemed to be working, except the ABS and ASD.
We took it for a quick test drive around Fürth - all good. But... Well - let's say, it certainly was a GOOD call to overhaul both axles & steering on my car. God almighty, what a spongy suspension and steering like custard... It's always amazing, just HOW darn different W124s can handle. You can literaly FEEL any 100kkm more on the clock.
Anyways. After the test drive came the process of deep thoughts & negotiations. We knew that the seller wanted more money in case we took the new-ish tyres & headlights. Since we are clever c*nts, we brought our won tyres & headlights with us
And right in the moment where I thought "this is no good idea" - I forced myself the a "let's f*cking do this" and said yes. To make it as cheap as possible, the tools came out the boot, as did the tyres...
And whilst E chnaged the headlights, I put on the wheels...
We slapped the temporary plates on the car - and off we went in big cloud of white, blue & black smoke... It must have been pure terror to drive behind our little diesel-caravane of 6l capacity and 12 force-fed cylinders
(even I had troubles to cope every time E stepped on the gas
).
You may ask at this point "why's that??" - I think the best awnser is this.
My brain at this point: "oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear - what the F*CK have we just done!?!? We're SO fvcked! Oh dear, oh worry..."
Or something like that...
E drove in front - the weakes always goes first. And my train of thought got even more worried, when E pretty soon pulled over and went for a stop...
Allready the first breakdown after only 15km?? Please no!!
But: it was just an issue with a non-working cigarette lighter. In combination with a very weak akku in the GPS. We couldn't fix it - so the formation was quickly reversed to find the way out of Nürnberg...
On the autobahn the formation was re-arranged for the "safe" formation, wounded car in front, service & backup vehicle on the end of the caravane (which is pretty easy with only two cars
). And of course there was a traffic jam, idiot drivers, a lot of oil smoke, a lot of black disel smoke. Not many cars dared to stay behind E for a prolonged time. I NO idea why
Coffe break, to re-charged our numb minds (E's from the droning noise of the car, mine from the fumes of the car)...
And traffic jam stop. Sigh.
Apart from a huge oil consumption, noise and fumes - we arrived at E's.
Food!!
Biut this was not yet our final destination. With new strengh by delicious pizza we headed on the autobahn again... This time it was the Turbo'S last journey.
We dropped the Turbo at my place - and headed back to yet another location, where E's 300TE is waiting for it's revival.
So this got re-activated, I drove back to my place, and E headed home with the beloved 300TE
All parked up and tucked away for the night...
Now you might have asked yourselfes, why this car smelled so bad an did drone so much. Well, I can awnser that.
Issue number one: a totaly shagged head gasket. Oil is pushing out the manifold, it's pixxing everywhere!
Issue number two: we are total cheapskates. And left the new exhaust at the seller's. And, well - he'd bought a new one since the old one - well, fell off.
Now there are two six cylinder turbodiesels at my door - however, pretty soon only one of them will remain........
So long,
Jan
) eBay rattle can... 
Changing the vapouriser must be one of the worst jobs these cars coulkd throw at you... Made me think twice about my plan to re-activate the A/C... 
