Have you checked the alternator itself? What about the battery? In the 190E's I've owned, the "charge" light never came on to show a dying alternator, it was always an intermittant ABS light, as the ABS unit requires a certain voltage to work.

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

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