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Old 06-12-2010, 11:23 PM
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Default 81 300SD Electrical Issue. I think?

Hey folks. I'll give as much info as possible but as this is my first Benz and my first post. I may not give all the correct info. Feel free to heckle me and demand more info.

So the car is a 126 chassis obviously. The issue is that as of today. The turn signals and the brake lights do not come on. Both worked earlier in the day. There is a drivers side high beam out. And when you turn the emergency lights on the turn signals have a "shutter" to them. As in the lights come on but they flicker, even though flicker is not an appropriate term.
Also the dashboard display isn't working. (Speedo and Tach and Fuellevel etc.) From what I remember the glow plug lights and others work on that strip below the controls but anything behind the glass doesn't.

I have taken all the fuses out of the terminal and cleaned off the fuses and the clips they sit on. I don't really know what else to do. We ran out of light tonight so tomorrow we are going to slide out the speedometer case and check the connections behind it. Hopefully that helps.

It is midnight on Sat right now and we are supposed to leave at 6am on Monday so we will not really be able to take it to a tech if we want to make the first leg of our trip home on time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Art
 
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