Elmer,

What a great post! Welcome to mercedesshop.com and to the ML forum!

You illustrate a detailed and excellent example of making the most of the opportunity, and showing the benefits of doing so. In fact you make me want to call Clair parts (in my phone list for years) and PP to order the stuff sent overnight so I can play, even though I don’t see the value! Presentation is everything....

For lights I went a different route and put some hella euro beam driving lights on the burshguard of my ML. These have serious overkill power. So much so that I keep trying to remind myself to get lower wattage bulbs than the 100 watt bulbs installed. They work wonderfully, of course, but the problem is that when I have to turn them off I’m temporarily stricken by retina lag due to the sudden lack of light. The euro beams are so bright that I can otherwise turn everything off and not suffer due to lack of illumination except for the right shoulder. Like you (before the fix), when everything is on I have the driving lights, headlights, and fog lights illuminated. I drive mountain roads a lot and the extra illumination is fabulous and has kept me away from more than a few Elk. The dealer made a change in the ML’s AAM that that permits the operation of the fog & driving lights with the headlights off, but the parking lights on. They also wired the driving lights through the rear fog light switch, incorporating a relay, to permit independent operation and keep the dash looking OEM.

Anyway I mention this as I always like to rant and also wondered if the Xenon high beams cause momentary retina lag when you turn them off?

Beyond that my other comment (in addition to thanks for the nice post) is in your tag line: “'Most problems are resolvable with the application of massive quantities of high explosive of bandwidth - your choice.'”

I think you indented to put “or bandwidth” rather than “of bandwidth” but it is interesting either way ~ ~

Regards

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"