This is weird. I ordered some new bulb socket connectors, supposedly
ceramic, for the SEC since both of the old ones had melted. Got those
soldered on no problem.
Go to put the bulbs back in the headlamp housing and they won't go in
right. I'm sure they were in there OK when I took them out (turns out
I didn't have to, should have left well enough alone...). The bulb
holders have 3 little slots on them and the left side housing has 3
little tabs (one is missing but that's OK), 2 of the three look to be
slightly bigger than the other one as do the slots on the holders. The
right side seems to have 4 tabs in the housing and of course the bulb
holder will not go in there. All the replacements seem to have 3 slots,
which the ones that I have do, but I absolutely cannot get them to go in
and seat over those little tabs.
This is really weird, the bulbs/holders should just slide right in then
the round holder thing goes over the bulb holder, 3 tabs go into slots
and then you rotate the holder to tighten it down. Without the bulb
holder fully seating this thing won't go into the slots so it can be
turned to tighten it and hold the bulb in.
I have no idea what to do here other than just grind off the tabs in the
headlamp backing that the bulbs go into, they don't seem to be
absolutely necessary, they just keep the bulb in sorta the right
orientation though I'm not sure that makes a big difference to anything.
Looking at new bulbs, here is another thing too. A single bulb Amazon
Prime is $10.35 and a two pack is $31.96. I could buy 3 singles for the
price of two. Whussup with that?
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-9004-X-tremeVision-Upgrade-Headlight/dp/B016ZY470I/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&qid=1529185676&sr=8-24&keywords=1991+mercedes+560sec+headlight+bulb
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-9004XVB2-X-tremeVision-Upgrade-Headlight/dp/B01C5QY6TC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1529185676&sr=8-7&keywords=1991+mercedes+560sec+headlight+bulb
I guess I don't need any new bulbs since the others seemed to work, just
the sockets melted.
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