What Peter said. The headlights on these cars are woefully inadequate even for their time, and border on being dangerous when driving the car at highway speeds, in my opinion. My R129 (SL500) has the same lights as the W124, and I might as well be holding a candle in front of a reflector. It's about as efficient as these headlights...
You can find OE Euro headlights from some guys in Eastern Europe at fairly reasonable prices. Another very low cost but high return item is to use relays to switch the headlights so you can run heavy duty wiring, By doing this you almost eliminate voltage drop and can utilize high wattage (80/100) lamps as well. As I used to like to say, I can melt the soccer mom's Ford Explorer bumper in front of me with a headlight setup like this. The difference is nothing short of night and day. Dan On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Get the Euro headlights. Vast improvement, altnough the w123 shouldn't be > any worse than any other car with sealed beams. The real dog is the W124, > worst headlights I've ever had with the DOT ones. Euro's are great, vastly > better illumination and not much trouble for oncoming drivers. > > Peter > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
