stizo

Hi guys,
I am no handy man but managed to pull this one off without blowing up the car. Mine is a 97 E420. Now I need to upgrade my stairing wheel so I bought the brabus wheel. I now need airbags and the buttons. I have noticed that some w210 airbags have stitches on them. How do I get one of those in grey to match my interior. The dealer told me that they cannot help me unless I get the vin # of the car. Since I do not know anyone with a 2000 up w210 with gery interior......? Anyway compatibility issues with the 2000 wheel and my 1997 sockets?

MBZ12

I've got a 2002 Oyster Grey interior. Is that what you need?

Josh K

where did you get the needles? they look great

stizo

Thanks guys,

MBZ12: that may be what I need. I dont know about the oyster, but its generally grey in color like the side of the cluster above. Thanks man.

Josh K:
Thanks for the compliments. I got the needles off ebay. I bought a faulty C class cluster off ebay for cheap and used the needles. Also got the chrome rings off ebay too. Small world eh, I just got the brabus steering, just like yours. Same grey color, but my wood is burl. Its nice and thick. From you pix, it looks like I am looking for the exact airbags that you have too, in about the same colour. From you write up, I gather they are called designo right?, ie the bag with the stitches. Where did you get them and roughly how much are they, if you dont mind. Thanks

jimmydagreek

Those needles and chrome rings look sweet!!! I think I'm going to get a set for myself now, hehehe...

E-Klasse

I put the white needles on mine too when I installed the white face gauges. I put the chrome rings but they look much beter around the black faces. How secure are your chrome rings? My center one kept falling off so I removed them.

jimmydagreek

I remember your white face guages E but I don't remember the rings though. Probably cuz they were on white instead of black. They look tight though...

galleryvw

where can i find white gauges for a '97? I've always liked that look but can't seem to track them down.

vince

stizo

E-Klasse: My rings have not fallen off since I intalled them. They come with a glue-like paste at the back as you know-almost like plastercine. The only thing I did was I had to take off some of the glue because I did not want the excess squishing out at the edges when I pressed the rings into place and that was it.

E-Klasse

The glue on mine dried out with it being so hot here in Arizona. In the summer it can get over 115 deg. on the outside of the car so no telling how hot it is inside. The chrome did not show up well against the white faces so I took them out. I never posted pics with them on. I picked up a set of the white gauge faces from NRAuto.com. Be sure and email them and say that you saw them on my car on MBWorld. They might give you a discount. They gave me $50 off just for mentioning this web page. I got the white needles off of a 99 C-Class sport cluster with the white gauges.

carlssonW208Rs

Wow!!
nice one
where you get it?
i need those badly