Marc-Andre,

I made adapters because I didn't want to violate the car's original wiring, so yes, I can go back to US spec headlight assemblies if need be. I did it years ago, and had them installed in my '73 220D until I sold it before moving to Utah.

Back in the Good Ole Days when you could find multiple W114/W115 cars in the ABQ U-Pull on any given day I had a small pile of US spec headlight assemblies. I cut the wiring connection section off two of them and used that for connecting to the car's wiring. I nabbed a photo off the www and drew a red parallelogram to show the area I'm talking about (attached).

I then scavenged some of the cylindrical wiring connectors used throughout these cars and soldered them to the wires on the other side of my adapter. Then I plugged each individual wire/connector to its respective terminal on the Euro assemblies. At this point I've got full functionality of the Euro lights minus the fog lamps. The '73 had the separate US fogs so I didn't really need them on that car. I'd like to have the Euro fogs working on the '74 but it never came with fogs, so I'd have to do some wiring back to the switch (I think). Plus, the fogs in my Euro assemblies need new/restored reflectors and some fresh lenses. A project for another day.

Hope this makes sense without more images. After things warm up and it's time to pull the '74 out of storage I'll take an assembly out and get a pic of what I did.

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1973 220D, The Prodigal Benz
1974 240D