Mercedes Abandoned for 10 Years - Will it Drive it Home to Ireland?
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- In this extra special episode of 427 Motorsports, we attempt probably the stupidest thing we have ever done - driving a classic W123 Mercedes home from Scotland - that's been abandoned for 10 years.
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A feature film length video about a rotten W123? Yes please!
This comment is literally me
All credit to you for taking on a W123 with more rust than the Titanic. I had zero expectation it would even move let alone start so the fact that you managed both was epic!
Just grabbed a W210 300TD estate in France with 133,000 miles. It isn't as bad as you would think but needs a couple of front wings, new o-rings in the fuel lines, gearbox service, engine service, but for 1750 euros I am very happy! Had it been parked there it would have been a pile of cornflakes surrounding and engine and box 🤣
Guy in orange looks like a pilot for the rebel alliance.
Lad your age from Kildare here. Recently bought my first classic, a 123 Wagon, loving your videos as it makes me feel better about the one I bought 😂 fair play lads keep up the good work
Ah lads cracking vid. looks like you had a fun time and best of luck with it when you get around to getting it back! Good to see another one to be added to the Irish W123 stock!
Brilliant !
This committed lunacy got my subscription 😎👍🏻
Really enjoyed your little adventure. I also bought a W123e laid up for 10 years and had similar issues with running. Before throwing parts at it make sure fuel return is clear, it’s a smaller pipe than the feed and in my car was blocked solid with evaporated fuel varnish. Good luck!
Welcome to k-jet. Awesome vid Tommo, Conor and crew. Great effort
Entertaining stuff.. thought it was pointless on seeing the car but to be fair, you came very close. Proper adventure.
Fantastic achievement. I watched it all. Credit to you
this 123 has abs that is an very rare option
Loved this video. Had a real adventure feel about it, whilst also a good criac with your mates. Looking forward to seeing what happens next with the W123. Hopefully not a Coke can. 😁
Class stuff as always lads
That’s awesome determination guys, good job 👏🙌greetings from USA 🇺🇸
amazing, what a watch! 💖💖
Well done, at least u tried, great vid and great cars/crack.
Greetings from Dromore Co Down. Great movie lads. Your video makes me want to do silly things, like try and daily a classic mercedes estate. In time my S211 will become a classic.
Cheers Matt! If you watch our other videos about dailying classic Merc estates, you’ll see how not silly that idea is ;)
The S211 is honestly one of the best cars ever made. Fact.
@@427Motorsports Ultimate keyboard car. S211 is about the last car where the back seats fold flat.
I admire your determination and application and wish you well for the future of this project - as a Mercedes nut I have to say this car is worth saving.
Carole’s Merc was such a heap
At least the guys had bought it cheap
800 miles, from Armagh did they ride
When they got there ,,Dad had cried
The rust was bad , the smell was rank
£170 ???? really not worth a …tank …..
Good effort fellas , and good vidya
But probs best we forget this car.
Grt Video well done Lads. I hope you get Carol home. Hope Terry ok.
Thanks for the video.
Well done fellas.
Brilliant watch!
Thanks so much for saving her!! Big respect!!🤝
Cheers Vito! Means a lot coming from you!!
Nice adventure and good work 😊
ohhh I feel this! only with bmws tho. NICE video!
New spark plugs do wonders 😂
That straight six engine is excellent. Had that engine in a 74 coupe and in a 76 SE with mechanical fuel injection. Higher revving, dohc and dual exhaust
Aha ,I knew it! you can drive from Scotland to Ireland ! and it's the only 280SE W123 known to man .
There might be a 300D in Girvan...i bought a 1977 W123 in Uluru Australia...1000 bux...fuel line..battery....3000kms to melbourne...blew both rear tyres on the way...same rims as yours...bonus..same as a Ford Falcon...good job lads...
Martyn would definitely be interested in the 300D if it's for sale! Sounds like an adventure crossing the outback!
Sounds like it's not getting enough fuel, there is a filter inside the warm up regulator(WUR) which could be clogged.
Is there a part 2 coming out?
GTA2 Soundtrack : instant grin
It’s honestly always our least spotted soundtrack, glad someone spotted it!!
Got instant flashbacks to that weird tattoo bloke on the menu screen. Why has that game been so forgotten?!
People days these don’t remember… respect is everything. 😜
@@427Motorsports just got to the end, top soundtrack throughout. The usual GT menu tracks are impossible to beat, but gta3 & 4 and Planet Caravan were a lovely change to usual youtube music other channels use.
@mattteee2973 thank you so much! We honestly love picking out music for our videos, probably as much as making the video itself. Copyright makes things a pain but video game soundtracks and covers usually help us get away with our vision. Cheers, that means a lot!
What's the name of the song used for the first 20 seconds of the video?
Thanks.
Vangelis' theme from the Bounty!
Wherher it us a w116 or w123 these cars are known to be indestructable since tbese cars, are to be taxis with over a million miles and still going strong .
Full Restoration, challenge accepted
I remember trading cartons of cigarettes for all the parts you could carry out of a scrapyard in Germany. Good luck finding front end parts for Mercedes, they are faster but don’t slow faster 😂
I go up there 3 times a year on hols, it’s some drive, you come back the single track A836?
We did indeed, we went that way too, it took fucking ages 🥲
We did!
Felicitaciones por volver ese W123 a la vida, para mi es el mejor y mas lindo de los Mercedes!!! Otra cosa es que me parecio un poco largo el video con pasajes que deberìan ser mas cortos y algunos sin importancia; pero lo importante es que està funcionando. Veremos como reparan la carrocerìa y los herrumbres. He notado que todos los Mercedes son bastante malos en lo que se refiere al metal de la carroceria pero de motor una maquina infernal. Felicitaciones nuevamente y espero a ver cuando lo pintan....
Gracias!
Some adventure
Really love the GTA and Sims soundtrack lol.
Had a 280 SE 4 spd, great car, solid
I think mercedes is the ghetto is my new favourite song 😂
i had always problems with the kj tronic. Boys just put an diesel engine in it ,think om 606 turbo
We had genuinely contemplated it, there was a 240D sitting there, but sadly it was missing the injection pump!
Good onya fellas,Beautiful!🇦🇺
just found you're channel and have subbed but being a Scottish and living in Scotland there is no way you are covered in sunburn. weather beating I can understand but sunburnt I'm not having it lol
I think we got the one good day of sun haha!
Nice video. Why you didn't change the oil?
The oil in it looked golden with food viscosity
You know, for such an expensive vehicle at least in America, they’re nothing less than a rust bucket 😢
Parked for ten years he said more like 20 but for £150 the wheels and tyres are worth more money then that I can see that being alot more rotten underneath I would carryed on with it being left on the trailer till you got it back home even if its to far gone you have plenty of parts to keep or sell on
But where would be the adventure and craic in that? 🤪 we took the gamble because it was so stupidly cheap. People spend more than that on a shite holiday and we had a great time 😀
This is great public service video....don't touch the coil spring on your car if you haven't got a clue how they work 😮😮😮
replace the intake injector orings they may be creating a biv vccum leak
Who in their right mind would leave such good car to rot outside? Shame on them
I never liked this model from Mercedes, but so many of them are still everyday drive in East of Europe. And yeah, they rust even on the sun, so 99% of all I've seen have rust issue. This one particularly looks like a parts donor vehicle or parts for sale type of vehicle.
I hope they paid you to take it away.😅
Was that car dropped in the ocean for a few years?
Close to it at least!
I would’ve turn back home and take the loss instead of even trying to come close to that piece of junk. Whomever dare selling that vehicle should be arrested immediately 😮.
You’d have missed out on a lot of fun.
why😪
funny
W123
Habla demasiado en los vídeos me gusta cuando hacen los trabajos sin hablar mucho.
Then turn the volume off.
Last mot 2008......
We like a challenge
Parked in this spot for 10 years.
😳
Why would you bother with a pile of scrap like that it's obvious the Mercedes engine will run but the metal work is unrepairable especially comming from Scotland a good engine but the rest is scrap 😮
Funny
Lazy work
How in the name of feck is all this in two days lazy work? Get your head looked at
@@427Motorsports too lazy
Big sleeps
What has the sea got to do with the rust 😂. Did the previous owner drive it on the beach ? It's road salt that kills cars never buy one from a scotchland
Very bad work !
Thanks! 🙌🏻
Better idea. Dump the antiques roadshow bosch jetronic for a 350 chev. Sure its a bit more work but 350 chevs are everywhere.
Moral of the story dont buy a car sight unseen.
Where do you plan on finding a 350 Chevy motor in this country? 🤨
350 chevs are everywhere in Ireland? Wow thats news to me!
@@427Motorsports you have heard of speed shack in the UK? if not pay to look on the internet.
i hear the internets a new thing now with all the kids...
Alright smart arse, we’re in Ireland. And they aren’t here 🇮🇪
@@427Motorsports you have heard of summit racing? engines are but a credit card purchase away.
Great video, you where bringing it back to Northern Ireland not Ireland
*were
@@happyguy6911 very true
Don’t work on cars when you don’t have any notion how to work on them technically .. Stupid stupid stupid . Sorry to say but the end was very disappointing .
Watch any of our videos and you’ll see you’re very, very wrong. But cheers to helping our algorithm!
Bro, just ship one from California. We're literally junking rust free w123s over here. Check out the inventory at lkq and row52.
We have two W123s already, but thanks! 😂
Guy's l'm gonna be
Completely honest , you
got scammed it's a
parts car what's left
of it ......
You need to find
another car preferably
same make & model &
make sure it's inland
away from the sea
Ha ha , it is sad you
got ripped off , that's
why you always
Check b4 you buy
It's called ' Buyer's
Beware ' please
don't be a plonker
Good Luck !
from Melbourne Australia 🦘🐨🐊
£175 for a w123 is not ripped off, scrap price is higher.
@scottyg7284 and the best part is, we said £150 😂
Why did you format this like a poem? Go easy on the return key 🤣
Some adventure