Al,

I have had failures on both pods on my 96. In one case the plastic portion of the light cluster was broken and would not hold the bulb. One fix just a new light pod. In the other case it was the bulb contact location on the pod. I bent up the metal contact panel and all is well. I found the solution on the board but it took a lot of reading. The tail light set up on the W210 could be better.

Greg