Alex Chamberlain wrote: > "These Headlights are for an SE and they are brighter than the SDL > originals but they do not accomodate the headlight wipers anymore. " > Sounds like they swapped them out because the old style will easily > accomodate generic E-codes which are much cheaper than the Mercedes > specific-ones. Kind of clever, actually.
I was always tempted to do that on my Volvo. The later-style U.S. lamps had plastic lenses that fogged over from UV exposure and cut the light output. At least with the old sealed beams you got a new lens with every bulb change.