MB W124, 230 E

MB has always been fuel injection since the late 60's I believe...

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NO!,...100% sometimes motor 2,3 hadn't injection. MB W123 had got this motor, and in 99% W124 had carburettor too. For example look for W114 (70's) and for W123 (80's) with 2,3 motor,..sometimes You can find models without injections.

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Wow.. never heard of this... must be models for third world countries.

Well, it's for Poland, what do you expect?

cp

No, the 230E = injection was introduced with the W123 series in July 1980 - the carburettor W123

W124 always had 230 injection engines, the only carburettor engines were the 200 whose production ended in June 1990 - successor was 200E with injection.

Juergen

Juergen

Exactly. Fuel injection started during W123. I had a W123 200E (after a

DAS

Makes Germany a third-world country...:-)

As said elsewhere, fuel injection came during the W123 time.

DAS

My 115 has a Stromberg 175CD (175mm Constant Depression) carb, mercedes fitted them to 115's with manual and auto-chokes too. My Haynes Workshop manual for the '85-'93 W124 also has a carb section for 124's.

This is Europe, maybe due to the Californian emissions regulations they didn't ship carb models to the USA? The fuel metering in a carb is far cruder than even the pretty crude mechanical injection of the

The SL's of the 1960's (Pagoda) certainly had mechanical fuel injection fitted. As far as I am aware so did the Gullwing SL's too. Mike

There was the W124 200 with carburettor.

Juergen

"Dori A Schmetterling" haute in die Tasten:

AFAIK there was no W123 200E.

I remember the following petrol engines for the W123

The 280 and 280 E engines were also available for the first series of W126 S-class

IIRC the 200 E engine was introduced in 1986 or so with the W124.

Frank

Just Mike haute in die Tasten:

The big time for fuel injection in Germany started in the 80's when catalytic converters were introduced to market. Soon the so called "3 way cat" with lambda probe turned out to be the technology of choice. In order to maintain a certain exhaust emission quality you have to make sure that the ratio between oxygen and fuel stays exactly the same under all circumstances. This is not possible with old school mechanical carburators. So some manufacturers (VW) developed electronically controlled carburators, while most other companies jumped to electronic fuel injection. If my memory serves me right, Mercedes stopped selling petrol cars without catalytic converter in Germany in 1986. IIRC the carburator engines with six cylinders and 2,5 and 2,8 litres were never available in the W124, the 2 litre 4-cylinder was fitted with electronic fuel injection about one year after market introduction of the W124. The 2,8 litre carb. engine for the W126 S-class was replaced with the new 2.6 litre fuel injected engine (labeled 260SE) during the first big facelift of the W129 series. Mercedes may have produced carb. cars after that date for remote 3rd world countries, but the main markets (Western Europe, USA, Japan) demanded for a similar, higher level of enviromental friendliness at that time, so there was no big market for cars without cat.

Frank

My memory may be faulty, what with old age and this being about 20 yr ago. Now I have to think of a way of verifying this... I recall the colour (petrol) and that I had it 1984 - 86, but now you make me doubt the engine which I thought to be 200E until I read your post...Maybe it was 'only' a

BTW, the 'proper' spelling is carburettor. Alternative is carburetter. Correct American spelling is, I believe, carburetor, but might be carburator.... ;-)

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Actually I thought this was the italian version, it sounds like "tintoretto";-)

Frank

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carburators.

carburators,

Thanks so much for infos. I think that the best motor for me is 200 D :)) I think, that I will buy a MB W201 with 2.0 diesel and automatic gear. It's perfect team for me. Please, send me some infos about 190 D 2.0 automatic,..it's good car or not.

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