Being both a lazy and obstinate fellow, I just now got the dash lights to work in Allen.
I got her in Feb of ’17 and hardly drove at night, but by April I was out past or near dark, and could never get the dash to light up. I messed around with pulling the cluster and trying to make electrons go to bulbs and screwing about with the rheostat a few times. I really wanted the thing to work the way it came from the factory. Last time I pulled it was when I had installed the aftermarket radio and got tired of replacing fuse 13. Polei has LED cluster lights, I am not impressed, so would not do that with Allen. I did all manner of tests for continuity and if the bulbs even work. Or if the bread board was ok. It all came back as good, but for the dang rheostat. I decided summer was coming and I would not be out past dark anyway. Today, I got the itch and was either going to end up jumpering the rheostat or installing a chinee purple LED for dash light. I went with jumper, so as to be forced to use the LED as last resort. Tossing on the bit of wire around the posts was simple. I put it back together, put fuses 12 and 13 back, and fired it up. Radio and clock worked, so no big screw ups. Just needed to wait until dark to see if the very dim bulbs would work. Turns out they do. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers _______________________________________ 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
