Re: [MBZ] 124 radio display inop — backlight?

2021-05-16 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
This was a replacement the PO had when my daughter bought the car, I put it in. The display on the original went bad too (I think it was actually the LCD went bad). This one worked for awhile and it too went out but just the light. I don’t want to spend money on the car as I’m thinking to sell i

Re: [MBZ] 124 radio display inop — backlight?

2021-05-16 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
You can, but you can also buy a rebuilt faceplate from Becker Auto Sound that has been completely reworked for around $125 last time I checked. Replacing the lamps is tough but doable, it involved disassembling the faceplate and desoldering the old “grain of wheat” bulbs and soldering the new on

Re: [MBZ] 124 radio display inop — backlight?

2021-05-16 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> I’m guessing it’s the backlight since I can shine a flashlight on the display > and it will show stuff. Anybody ever go into one to fix the bulbs? The ones in older cars I've seen are grain-of-wheat 12V incandescent bulbs. Some might be the same small bulbs that are used in the instrument c

[MBZ] 124 radio display inop — backlight?

2021-05-16 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
I’m guessing it’s the backlight since I can shine a flashlight on the display and it will show stuff. Anybody ever go into one to fix the bulbs? --FT Sent from iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Un