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Right side UK mirror?
- Thread starter ahmat19
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Hi from the UK!
I think its highly unlikely that a UK car right side (passenger's) mirror is the same as the US left (driver's) one. All E500E's were left hand drive, and I would think therefore that all cars, irrespective of export destination, would have been fitted with the same mirror set-up.
My 500 has a wider driver's side mirror compared with the passenger side - as I suspect all other 500's have? It would feel very odd to drive the car with the narrower mirror which is normally found on the passenger's side, fitted to the driver's side.
I'll stand corrected on this one if I've got it wrong.
I think its highly unlikely that a UK car right side (passenger's) mirror is the same as the US left (driver's) one. All E500E's were left hand drive, and I would think therefore that all cars, irrespective of export destination, would have been fitted with the same mirror set-up.
My 500 has a wider driver's side mirror compared with the passenger side - as I suspect all other 500's have? It would feel very odd to drive the car with the narrower mirror which is normally found on the passenger's side, fitted to the driver's side.
I'll stand corrected on this one if I've got it wrong.
I would imagine it's the same with sedans, I made a similar swap with a UK member of BenzWorld on my 300CE.
He (from the UK), wanted two fat square mirrors on his RHD CE, and I thought I'd wanted two skinny rectangular mirrors on my US CE.
They do swap perfectly(almost), on a CE and I'd bet the sedans are the same.
The "almost" is simply getting the electric connectors sorted out correctly.
His rectangular drivers side (right side) mirror was from a 94 which had both sides electric, but they have different wire connectors than my 92 passenger mirror, so we had to provide each other with both sides of the different connectors, and slice them into the door wiring.
I bolted mine up just to see the difference, and it did make the mirrors symmetrical looking. But after thinking about it, I decided to keep the oddball look, it's unique only to a couple of Mercedes models, I think the 190's are similar.
I have lived in corporate management for years, and it strikes me that someone in Mercedes Engineering had to make a very strong sales pitch to allow for the asymmetrical mirrors. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in those meetings, the sales oriented managers probably had a heart attach with this oddball design.
So for CE owners out there, I have a right side skinny mirror that will bolt right up, and you can wire it into the power control easily.
You don't say specifically, but it sounds like your thinking you may want two rectangle mirrors, is that right?
I got the idea from barnstormer on BW, a few years back is spent a fortune turning a CE into a widebody 500E clone, but kept the M104. One of the things he did was to swap out the square mirror for a RHD rectangular mirror. It did look nice... I think he spent about $20K plus on the body conversion, all professional done, but at the end of the day, it's still a M104. I'm partial to coupes, if I had that kind of money to burn, it would have the mechanicals all changed instead.
Anyway, to answer your question simply, yes physically they will be the same, electrically you may need some splicing for different connectors.
Here is what I am talking about, link to the wide body CE build, a beautiful car, just needs a V8..
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w124-e-ce-d-td-class/1316301-e320-coupe-widebody-conversion.html
Attached is a screen shot near the end of the build, showing the right side rectangular UK mirror mounted, the final assembly pics are near the end, page 16 and up
The entire thread is an interesting read for the most part if you don't pay too much attention jibber-jabber here and there. The build is well documented in pic's, if only this car had a 119 from a 500E...
Good Luck..
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I just finished reading all of the posts the coupe looks amazing
And the mirror looks good so I'm going to get one for my self but the couple is a beauty maybe I'll try to make one for my self will the 500e engine fit in the 300e body ?
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And the mirror looks good so I'm going to get one for my self but the couple is a beauty maybe I'll try to make one for my self will the 500e engine fit in the 300e body ?
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Yea I agree, that has to be the nicest coupe I've seen, it would be my candidate to to this with
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w124-e-ce-d-td-class/1241274-going-v8-400ce.html
The thread is about a coupe conversion to a 400, I would have done a 500 myself, but this documents the extreme pain in the ass problems to solve. Look on page 7 I think, for the install of the 119.
So after reading both these threads, you will see how hard it is to take a plain Jane CE and turn it into a 500E cousin.
After reading all this, I took the easy road and bought a E420, best move I've made up until now.
Lets see what kind of luck I have with the 500E, can't wait for it to be delivered.
Good luck
