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Old 04-15-2003, 05:19 PM
Richard Eldridge Richard Eldridge is offline
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Perhaps the dash on my 300TD (123) has experience or is different from your 126, because all I ever have to do is gently push on it from behind.

So Radio Shack does have some useful stuff. I have mostly been unhappy with their stereos and other appliances, perhaps because I tend to buy them used and they never seem to last as well as Sony, Panasonic or other even no-name Mama-San brands. But I guess they can do buzzers well.

Does the buzzer make the light dimmer? I suppose it doesn't draw enough current.

My dash vis1bility complaints are with the two larger illumination lights, not the indicators. I cleaned up the bulbs and put some reflective tape on the araea behind the bulbs and bought new bulbs, and now can barely see the odometer at night. Before this, it was invisible, and I could barely make out the speedo and tach needles.

I am all for someone makjng a big bright, yet cool LED ithe same size as the dash illumination lights.

I read in another Forum that the main problem was the ground wire on Mercedes tends to develop a bad connection and that explains the dimness. I think the ground wire tends to be brown.

I would think that the buzzers of different tones would be an improvement. It would help Stevie Wonder or Jose Feliciano leatrn to use turn signals better, should they ever decide to drive your car, anyway.

I used to be able to hear the signal clicker. My father culdn't hear it after he reached 45 and would go down the road a-clicking for miles, which my teenage self thought was really uncool, and now it's happened to me. How ironic.
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