the original seat is "LEATHER DUDE" a couple of us enthuisiests here in Australia call it elephant scrotum. to your right is old MB TEX also elephant scrotum!!

@AutoAfflicted

2 ай бұрын

You are correct, sir I have replaced leather elephants scrotum with synthetic elephant scrotum, and it feels great

Very informative video! Just in case anyone is interested the material in doubt is not horse hair but coconut fibers.

@AutoAfflicted

5 ай бұрын

That’s interesting, makes sense seeing how robust the material is

Thanks for uploading this! In fact, my MB Tex was even worse than yours with larger tears and more of them, on both the bottom and back. It was either a feral raccoon or a toddler with a knife I'm sure. I'm keeping the heated seats so I have some additional work to extract and stitch back in the heating elements, but this gives me enough confidence to try.

@AutoAfflicted

10 ай бұрын

Yes! Glad it gave you confidence, if you can avoid feral raccoons 🦝 all will be smooth

Dang! I've never seen an MB-Tex seat that actually failed in such spectacular fashion.

@AutoAfflicted

Жыл бұрын

Same! This car sat in the Bay Area for 8 years, likely going through tons of heat and moisture cycles - glad to have some soft MB-Tex installed now

@MrRedcelica

2 ай бұрын

thats because its not mbtex!! its quality mercedes leather!!

+1 Wow! .. A timely post as I've begun fitting a drivers (base) seat leather on our '94 C124 Coupe. .. I'd found original OEM leather & components from an MB dealership in Greece via eBay. .. (First rate service by the way) .. The "Seat Repair" video takes a huge amount of guesswork out of the process. .. Many thanks! .. Vail, Colorado

@AutoAfflicted

4 ай бұрын

Wish could have found a leather solution, Glad it was informative! Vail was my snowboard bum home from 93-98

@paypal1229

2 ай бұрын

You found the replacement leather for it?

@AutoAfflicted

2 ай бұрын

I replaced with MB Tex. I did find leather replacements but the cost wasn’t reasonable

@michaelschneider-

2 ай бұрын

@@paypal1229 Yes,,, I found the OEM Creme Beige leather (seat base) via an online MB dealership in Greece. .. OEM Neu packaged in a 1994 dated MB carton. .. When it arrived my expression was; "Well I'll be dipped in shite!" .. How ya like them apples. .. Cheers,

Thank you so much for the explanation. It helped me a lot!! Greetings from Argentina.

@AutoAfflicted

8 ай бұрын

Awesome 🙏🏼 I’m glad you found the episode useful! And greetings !

are you sure the old ones were really mbtex?? the pattern almost looked like leather type

@AutoAfflicted

9 ай бұрын

I think it was leather, I had thought not just by how it was split and looked like composite material

So very helpful. I have a donor but the connections are different so I can't just pop it in like I would like. You are a good teacher.

@AutoAfflicted

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much 🙏🏼

@scotttaylor8811

10 ай бұрын

Got it done yesterday. It took me the better part of the day. I used an old batter to touch to motor contacts to move the seat back and forth on tracks. Looks greats thanks again.

@scotttaylor8811

10 ай бұрын

I should mention that this instruction worked on my 1995 E320.

@AutoAfflicted

10 ай бұрын

Nice! I’m glad it work out!

this is great! thnx! :))

@AutoAfflicted

9 ай бұрын

Glad to be of service

Hi! Can you help me with seat back lock? Both of my backrests are not fixed and recline in both directions without a button. the vacuum seems to be working, the tubes seem to be sealed, but there is no fixation. I didn’t take the seat apart much, I didn’t remove the trim from it, can you give me some advice?

@AutoAfflicted

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like it may be disconnected from the motor - you’ll have to pull it apart to see what is actually going on. If the back lock function was the only part failing, it would fold forward but not backwards not recline

@Athleticmix

7 ай бұрын

@@AutoAfflicted thank you! where is the motor located? Under the skin? In general, do you recommend removing the seat trim and looking at what's inside? someone told me that it was possible to do something like artificially inject into the system to see how the mechanism works.

@AutoAfflicted

7 ай бұрын

You may be able to see what going just by removing the plastic trim. Is it lifting at the front of the seat? Perhaps some screw came out of the frame?

@Athleticmix

7 ай бұрын

@@AutoAfflicted hmmm… idk it seemed to be lifting . I have manual seats.

@AutoAfflicted

7 ай бұрын

Take the back panel off a see what’s going on inside. That’s easy and should reveal much

looks good

@AutoAfflicted

Жыл бұрын

Feels good🇩🇪

Сделайте и мне

hello where did you buy the skins?

@AutoAfflicted

3 ай бұрын

Hi 👋🏽 as you can see in the video, I purchased a set of sedan seat and moved the skins over. There are company’s that make reproductions skins for $400-900 or more and I’ve heard of people finding skins at MB dealers in the EU . Best of luck on your journey

what is this beautifuls w124 color code?

@AutoAfflicted

6 ай бұрын

I’ll check the code next time I’m near it

@AutoAfflicted

5 ай бұрын

It’s MB-199 Black Pearl Metallic

@user-ok4ot3ph3m

2 ай бұрын

199 is Blue Black metallic