natejgreene9871

Very nice! Certainly more useful than the cassette tape holder.

LauraS

Hi, It is very nice too see so many members from BenzWorld here. I hope that I am as welcomed here as in the other forum.

355190e26

Hi Laura, glad to see you've migrated over as well! Most of the W201 regulars have made it over here now.
This forum is was pretty quiet before we all came, hope to get it more active now.

LauraS

Well the forum will be busy with my questions! I am still working on that code 17 O2 sensor issue.

dolucasi

Hey Laura, glad you made it! If you can post your problem here I'm sure many will reply.
If you had one of these qauges installed, I'm pretty sure you will see that your EHA current behaves normally at warm-up and drifts towards zero as the engine temp reaches 80c. And then in closed loop it will quickly drift towards +/- 20mA and then my guess is the ECU decides you have an O2 sensor problem, throws a code and centers the EHA to 0mA. At that point you are back to mechanical fuel injection without lambda optimization and because your lambda is properly adjusted it runs OK, not perfect but OK.

As I was saying in the top of this post, an installed EHA meter is a must in these 30+ year old cars. And the OBD-1 helps too of course.

- Cheers!

190Efan

You most certainly will be welcomed. Glad you made the move.

190Efan

Please start a thread for your problem and I have no doubt that the crew will once again try to help you diagnose it.

dolucasi

Finally got around to color coordinating the console gauges with the rest of the illumination. Swapped yellow LED's for the voltmeter/EHA current gauges and 355 helped me figure out that the Pioneer head units coloring is totally custom adjustable to match. Here are some photo's of the final set-up.
-Cheers

355190e26

Looking great Dolucasi! Glad you were able to find the perfect color combo to match the Mercedes interior lighting. I'm going to try it on another friend's W124 which also has a Pioneer

LauraS

I love the gauge payout. My late husband once installed an altitude gauge from one of our aircaft in my Volvo 240 but your gauges are much more practcal. I like the EHA meter. attached is a photo my grandson sent me of his radio installed in the 190E. I purchased it fr him because it looks correct in the dash although he was unhappy about the lack of bluetooth. It does appear to be sticking out a tad so I will inspect that as well when I next see the car.

dolucasi

That stereo certainly looks factory. Too bad it does not have blue tooth. Were gonna need to replace those cassette holders with some gauges!
- Cheers!

LauraS

My grandson is disappointed abot no bluetooth but I promised to buy him one of those gadgets that you plug into the cigar lighter than transmits to the radio.