My sister is finally going to sell her 1989 300-E. I suggested a couple of cheap repairs. One was to change out the washer bottle that was some how not holding washer fluid. So I found a good used one and tried to remove the sensor plug by pulling it toward me with a pliers.

This was a Bart Simison move!!! it cracked and the two plugs fell out of the black plug holder. Not a good move. I looked at the wiring but the only way to repair it would be to cut the harness off a salvaged car and have the harness mid way cut and reconnected.

since the car is not perfect not by my own doing may I say. I taped the two connectores with electrical tape and pluged them back in to the reservoir connection on the bottle.

I now know what not to do with old fragil plastic brittle Mercedes-Benz plugs. so there I screwed up. But the car runs fine and after a two day wash and auto detail its looks new again.

Bob Geco
two thumbs mechanic.

Wel,at leaste you got it workeing.

Carleton hughes 1 finger typeist.

Pretty much all 19-year-old German plastic is ready to crumble.

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

The plastic in my 1981 300D is doing pretty well for its age.

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Current:
1985 300D aka Miss Margaret
1991 300SE aka Alarice
1995 SL320 aka Samantha
1997 K1500 Silverado
Past:
1999 E300 ex-wife got it and let her son ruin it
1984 190 2.3 ex-wife got it and let her son destroy a great car
1985 300D (CA version) aka Maybelline lost to deer at high speed.
1981 300D aka Madeline (went to salvage at near 400k) rusty, yet best car I ever drove
Wishlist:
McFarlan TV6 (only a few privately owned)
ReVere with Rochester engine
1917 Premier (only one left)

had to replace battery.. thus removed windshield washer resevoir, the spigot in the pump to the line snapped off.. Oh well that part is cheap.. Kinda..

whaddya want from a 23 yr old car...If that is the least of my problems I'll be Smiling

'85 380SE