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Old 12-15-2005, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by manny
Very nice car. One of my alltime favorite M-B's.
Good luck with it.
Thanks! I think I will need it, as I just found the 'hidden' problem that I suspected was somewhere in the car. Right side marker lights, dash and license light circuit has a short (blew two fuses). Hmrmf. Of course all my test drives were during the daytime, and why I never thought to check to see if the dashlights came on, never occured to me (checked flashers, brakes what not). Ugh. Dumb me.

So I'm looking for the short. One part of this curcuit runs into the trunk lid so I'm hoping (praying really) that the wire cross is in there and I can patch that and be done with it. I'm scanning the Tech sections on wiring shorts now to see where there might be other areas of common failure that would cause this curcuit to short out.

It's odd (to me) that the right side markers, dash, controls, license plate light are on the same cicuit (but left is not, likely why it never occured to me.. I looked at left but not right.. duh).

But it runs/drives really really nice so... I can drive it with an LED flashlight on the dashboard for illumination while I work on this (I don't need the car as a daily driver so I can take my time).
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