Hi Placo-

To get a pic display/idea of the '94 style lights on a pre '94 500e, I'd suggest searching for pics on Neil's 500e (blackberry). Neil put the '94 style lights on his '93...you'll get the idea of the look from his great pics. There' a couple other early W124 owners that have did the same thing and are OK with the aesthetics- so it appears to be personal preference on whether this is Ok or not.

The '94 EOM Bosch headlight units do have an added curvature line fitting it to the curve of a '94 hood, but in your '92 the light unit itself will still fits the entire realm of the '92-'93 hoods....you'll get the idea when you look at Neil's set-up.

It's my understanding that brand spanking new '92 DOT OEM Bosch headlight units are readily available for purchasing but are very very expensive (~$6-700/pair wholesale). This would be the best plug-and-play solution for restoring OEM efficiency to your '92 (though- the '94 OEM Bosch units offers significantly better lighting vs. the '93/'92 set-up). The second choice for a plug and play solution is naturally the '94 OEM units.

I've heard both schools of thought regarding replacing the DOT OEM Bosch glass faces on the '94 units. One school says, 'not replaceable' and the other schools says, 'replaceable' - - 'but must be very very very cautious' when removing the old lense 'not to break the plastic tabs holding the lense to the unit'. I'm inclined to believe that they were glued on by DOT requirements of that time so owners wouldn't just replace the glass with the e-code ones- - since the DOT '94's are constructed quite closely to the e-codes anyways.

Hi Guido-
Yes, I certainly lucked out with my E-codes from PUMA. It was $$$ well spend and they look like big rectangular diamonds on the front of the car. I understand that PUMA does sell the '92 and '93 Hella E-codes for the 500e and that they are about $100 cheaper than the '94 Hella E-codes (due to lense differences). I can pass my reccomendation on the Hella e-code product from PUMA. Sorry to hear you got bumped a little on the product from mercedesshop. Gosh with all that performance in your car...you gotta get your lighting together!!!


good luck!
-fad