Re: [MBZ] Where are the lights?

2017-05-15 Thread MG via Mercedes
Then you have overlooked something somewhere. Check the ground from the plug to the body ground and make sure you have power in the plug. Or bring it down here and I'll take a look at it. ;-) clay via Mercedes wrote: I have done the bypass and nothing. On May 14, 2017, at 7:19 AM, MG via

Re: [MBZ] Where are the lights?

2017-05-15 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
I don't know that it applies here, but I had an SL with no ground in the cluster. Turns out that the ground is _not_ in the round plug, it's in one of the others, the late additions. When I accidentally flashed the clock power against one of the metal plates there was a little spark, but rather

Re: [MBZ] Where are the lights?

2017-05-14 Thread clay via Mercedes
I have done the bypass and nothing. > On May 14, 2017, at 7:19 AM, MG via Mercedes wrote: > > Bypass the rheostat. Even the full power dash lights are not bright enough to > really see the instruments in the dark. Then if the light at the ends of the > fiber optics

Re: [MBZ] Where are the lights?

2017-05-14 Thread MG via Mercedes
Bypass the rheostat. Even the full power dash lights are not bright enough to really see the instruments in the dark. Then if the light at the ends of the fiber optics don't work you may need to change the bulb where they all come together. clay via Mercedes wrote: I am having trouble

[MBZ] Where are the lights?

2017-05-13 Thread clay via Mercedes
I am having trouble getting the bulbs to behave in the cluster on Allen. The things have never responded to the rheostat when I turned the headlights on. The rest of the stuff is also not really making photons. The fiber optic stuff does not seem to make light on the cluster, but the radio