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What is the Euro-look?
Whats the difference between US and Eurpeean lights on the W123?
The Foglights or what? I cant see any difference att all on pictures. (I live in Sweden) |
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The US lights feature two round lights. The inner light is the fog light and the outer light is the headlight. The Euro spec lights feature a smooth plastic lense, with rectangular lights behind it.
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Ben,
Euro lenses are glass, not plastic. The early models of the euro W123 had two round patterns (fog & head) in the glass as well. The newer W123 (early 80's) have the rectangular patterns for fog- and headlight. This is just a modification from mercedes throughout the years, it is not a difference between euro and US. greetingz,
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I stand corrected. I should point out that the US edition never received the rectangular lights. It had the circular lamps until production was ceased in 1985.
Thanks for correcting my mistake.
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Ben The MBs: 1976 300D (W115) - 330K and still going (sort of) 1991 300D 2.5 Turbo - Sold at 221K 1983 280SEL - Sold at 206K 1981 300SD - Sold at 232K |
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Eric, The difference is that the W123 in Europe had halogen bulbs that were replaced from behind. The same way all modern cars today are. They had a flush lens with the reflector behind it. For the US models, when halogen were not legal yet, they went with 1 large headlight and one fog light. When the headlight went out you replaced the whole headlight, I think they are 7" in diameter. Why halogens were illegal at the time, I have no idea. While Europe had nice bright halogens we had the old incandescent bulbs giving off that wonderful dull yellowish light.
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1999 MB SL500 (110,000 mi) 2004 Volvo V70 2.5T (220,000 mi) 2014 Tesla Model S 85 (136,000 mi) MBCA member |
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Rick
Thanks. Yes, I wonder why the light laws in US dont allowed the new halogen.
"The new world" with the old car lights... =/ The Saab 900 from the early 80's looks horrible with their USA-lights, but the BMW-look at the Saab 99 is cool. |
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