As a newbie to MBZ ownership, I can just tell you guys, Im very spoiled already... Bought 1993 300te 4 matic in excellent condition all around. 181,000 miles, and this buggy is still tight as a drum. OWNED BY A LITTLE OLD LADY WHO DROVE BACK AND FORTH TO FLORIDA ABOUT 5000 TIMES... Although all my exterior lamps were lit, I still had the light out indicator coming on in the parking light position and head light position. After checking everything 20X, I concentrated then on the license plate illumination holders and bulbs. Well, finally after taking those puppies out, I found a mix of two different wattages! One side had 10 watt OSRAM (shorty)the other side had the correct 5 watt standard replacement. Some dum dum found a shorter version of this bulb, (with a 10 watt rating) and actually bent the bulb holder contacts in to make the bulb fit. I reformed the holder contacts, and inserted the correct # Osram 5 Watt bulb, and eureka! lamp out lite is finally extinguished. BTW, also repaired the PWR antenna on the car, a small plastic projection between the two gears that make up the mast feed drive spring buffer broke off. I gently scraped the adjoining part ends to remove the yellow silicone grease which had migrated onto the broken ends, degreased with acetone, and used CA type adhesive (crazy glue) with an accellerator to cement the broken parts back together. I then drilled and tapped and counter-sunk a half inch 6/32 flat head screw inserted from the outside part of the gear to add extra rigidity, and filled in the gaps in the repaired plastic nub, with more CA ...Works smooth and good as new..... During re-assembly, make sure you sandwich the two gears back together with the two plastic dogs, back in between the two bent ends of the buffer-cushion spring. Dont forget to clean out everything and relube with yellow silicon grease. (special grease for plastics). I think that the glue by itself, wouldnt really hold too long, so Add the screw! Saved what 300 bucks? Yeh Buddy.....