my w220 has been laid up for five weeks. Still waiting for it to get fixed. Cluster rebuild is expensive and worth more than the car
clay > On Mar 21, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Aren't you glad it is a simple car? Could be a whole lot worse on a newer > vehicle. > > RB > > On 21/03/2017 4:35 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: >> Y'all may remember a couple weeks ago I posted about the electrical gremlins >> in the 240D (81) >> >> The thing acts like it is possessed by the prince of darkness (Lucas) not >> designed by MB/Bosch >> >> These circuits all went out at the same time: >> Gas gauge >> temp gauge >> turn signals (4 ways work) >> both window circuits >> heater blower >> >> Today I dug into the cluster and loosened and tightened the chassis grounds >> behind the cluster. >> >> It resulted in no change. >> >> I left the switch on in the process so if bad contact was made good, I would >> hear the blower or other circuits working. There was nothing. >> >> Where to look next? Either there is a bad feed to multiple circuits in the >> fusebox or bad ground that affects all these circuits. >> >> I'll head out with a meter to be sure all are getting juice, but my thinking >> is still that I am chasing a bad ground somewhere. It does not appear to be >> the grounds behind the cluster. >> _______________________________________ 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
