meh. Go to a junk yard, find any mercedes from 80 to 91, pull the cruise amp from underneath the dash. Call it a "Large Relay" Pay your 5 bucks and go plug it in.

How to: Find any 124 or 126 (123s are too old for this type of work) - pull the lower kickpanel by flicking off the plastic covers on the left and right side, get out your phillips head (cross tip for those of you in St Lucia) and unscrew the 4 screws..PULL....pow, the whole lower kick panel comes out.

on your knees...duck you head in and under the dash...look up..you should see a relay about the size of a VHS tape....take your flat head screw driver and flick off the clip that is holding it onto a frame. and just pull the cruise amp out. "Large Relay" at pull a part is 5.50 with warranty....GET THE WARRANTY...its five bucks...but your cruise actuator could have failed...pulling 2 or more amps and frying your new to you amplifier.

better to get the ones with the small black relay on the bottom. They are newer and usually operate WAY better. After you do that, and you still have a problem, then go to GDL online and print the troubleshooting portion, get out your multi meter and check ohms and amps.

Peter @ gdlonline rebuilds amps...I have one that he rebuilt and I haven't had a problem since.

I have swapped his out with the late 80s early 90s versions and they work great too.

If you can't find one that works at a junkyard then buy one from Peter. You won't be disappointed. Peter may also be the nicest guy on the planet...I can't be sure...but I think he might be.

Feel free to pm me and we will have a hoot and and hollar matching your symptoms to one of the three possible issues. Amp, Stalk, Actuator.


Kent

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77' 300D, "Cartman" SOLD @ 150K (didn't know what I had)
83' 300SD, "The Superdon" 325k+ @ 28mpg
95 E320 wagon, "Millennium Falcon" 231k+ @ 24 Mpg
95 E300D, "Sherley" 308k @ 33.69 Mpg, currently anticipating a head
99 Suzuki Intruder "Trudy" @ 45 mpg

Thank you for the advise!

Great Info...