Help with 1983 300DT Power WIndows

[Black Sheep]

I own a 1983 300DT, Iwas running up two windows at the same time and it appears I may have blown a fuse. Now the passenger front and drivers rear window will not roll up or down, while the other two windows still work just fine. I have removed the fuse compartment cover under the hood and cant seem to find a fuse for windows. Could anyone offer any advice on this?
Thanks, Bill

[VLayton]

Replace fuses A and B with non-copper red (16A) fuses - they are the two fuses farthest left. :)

[Black Sheep]

Thanks for taking the time to answer the post, all the fuses looked good but as you thought one was bad. I am needing to sell my Mercedes to help with medical bills. What do you think of listing them on Ebay ? Thanks again.
Bill

[VLayton]

Ebay has pros and cons, but you may well get extra over-pay bucks for it if you're willing to go that way.

Commonly, a decent car ad runs $45-$50.

As an option, I suggest paying the $45 MBCA membership fee, then you can post it for sale here and get a FREE (or shall we say included) ad in the Star Magazine, which goes out to 20k+ households every two months, which contains pure MB listings. The clientel of calls you'd get would be more serious and relevent.

Cheers

[Don350SDL]

eBay is a good venue, but it helps quite a bit if you already have experience with eBay. Similarly, NOT having experience with eBay will definitely make the process more difficult and prone to problems.

On eBay, you are not speaking with the other party (usuallY) instead it's by e-mail. Also, they don't live 30 miles away and can drop in for a look, they live in cupertino and you're in Raliegh, 3000 miles away. How do they see the car, how do they give a deposit, how to they get the car... all these issues come up, and with little experience on eBay, you don't know how they are usually handled.

Then there's fraud, and non-paying bidders. Experience makes it easy to spot these folks, but ya gotta be careful.

If you happen to know someone who eBays a lot, then ask for their help - it's not a bad venue.

Cartrader.com is another option, issues are not as great as eBay, since you give out your phone number and most lookers will be more local.

The local newspaper is a third choice. Trade-in at a dealer (or just sell it to a dealer) is a fourth choice. Hemmings Motor News, but most of the ads are for specialty cars, not your daily drivers.

I agree with Vince - the MBCA folks are more likely to buy a car like that then anywhere else. $45 is a bargain, and you'll get a year of theSTAR too... Fact: I put a wanted ad last month, and I'm getting ready to have a car in FL inspected (I am in the northeast), likely will purchase - from an MBCA member.

Don

[mbzjag8090]

Honestly, for a W123, I would stick with the local paper, classified magazines (locally, such as Autotrader) and sitting the car in a well trafficed lot to find a buyer. I tried to sell a 300D on E-Bay only to have the person who bought it to decide he didn't want to buy it. What a waste of $45 on a $1,600 vehicle.

I think the sort of people who look through the classifieds in The Star are looking for higher end and collector models. I don't think the average 300D will sell through The Star because of the fact that there are tons of 300Ds throughout the country and if someone out there is looking for one that is like most of the rest, they can just find it down the street from them.

[Robby Ackerman]

There is a cult developing around the 300 D. You can burn VO, WVO and biodiesel with no modifications. A shop in Oregon specializes in turning over these old 123 300 Ds.