Weird, I never thought a 201 was lacking in dash brightness, maybe the 126 is
more 123 like?
Do the full Jim Cathey treatment, pull the cluster, line the light pipes with
aluminum foil. I also made sure the area around the bulb wasn't leaking any
light, if its melted like mine was it'd have deformed the housing some. Then
use the LED bulbs...
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Dan Penoff <dpen...@verizon.net>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] LED bulbs
I wonder how well they would work in a W126. My dash lamps are dim, at best.
Dan
> On Mar 11, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> They work nice in a 123 dash. I'd put some eBay xenon bulbs in my '83 that
> melted the dash a little bit. The LEDs were brighter and didn't melt things.
> Almost made the dash bright enough...The only challenge is the polarity has
> to be right...
> -Curt
>
> From: Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Cc: Jim Cathey <jim.cathey...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] LED bulbs
>
>> I was looking for dome light bulbs and I see these crazy expensive LED
>> dome
>> light bulbs ($12 vice <$1). What is the word on these? Any benift other
>> than its brightness and wallet emptying abilities?
>
> No. Oh wait. "With the energy savings you can buy yourself
> a trip to Rio!"
>
> Or maybe, that's what the vendor can do? I think LED bulbs are
> stupid. There are a few spots where a brighter, cooler bulb
> are good, like maybe a 123 dash, etc. The LED color is usually
> bad, garish, and often the lighting pattern is sub-optimal.
>
> -- Jim
>
>
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