My middle daughter, not the meticulous first one, invited a friend to eat some blended ice-cream thing in her '94, which somehow got spilled all over the center console including the window switches.

I'll never figure out why Mercedes-Benz chose to continue putting window switches there, laying flat and all, but they do so many other things that I like.

Anyway, a couple of the switches suffered to the point where they wouldn't return even after cleaning the visible crud out. Tried spraying contact cleaner into the switch, no joy. This proably wasn't the greatest idea anyway as it will likely dissolve and wash away the grease in the switch.

So the next plan, run the switch under warm water, warm enough to dissolve the sugar and crud, not warm enough to melt the grease.

Blew the switch out after to dry it, plugged it in and it worked like new! So I cleaned all of the switches.

That's my story, seems that since there isn't any steel in there, and it's fairly self-draining, that water is better than coffee or soft-serve ice cream.

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