Louieb25

Merry Christmas everyone

Looking for a fuse box. My headlights wont turn off with the car off, and I have found corrosion all over 4 and 5 fuse locations. Probably also my lights switch but not quite sure just yet. By the way Looking for one of those as well. Any help or guidance would be quite appreciated.

Chris

dolucasi

One does not hear about fusebox issues on the W201's very often. The car must have been in a moist area for a long time. Perhaps the cover is not seating properly and sealing with the weather stripping? I do not have one but tell us if it is easy take them out from the JY car. There are a couple of cars near me. They would be in fine shape out in here in California.

Louieb25

Unfortunately I'm out in Delaware and do not have any close by here in this state. So I was seeing if anyone had one on hand or donor car.

dolucasi

I just checked pricing for you. Seems they are $50 with pony tail harness at the JY's out here and on the east cost. Not cheap.

Louieb25

$50 is alot better than what I could find. Do you know which JY you were able to locate then at?.

dolucasi

San Jose North. Of the 2 cars the '91-92 had about 120K miles if not mistaken and was rear ended and crushed in the front as well unfortuntely. The other one was pretty decrepit. I think '89 or 90. You would have t pay a picker removal and shipping fee's.

- Cheers!

dolucasi

Oops, that was the San Jose North pick and pull, but it looks like both cars may have been sent to the crusher already. Wow, that was quick.

355190e26

Yep, I've noticed that SJ North tends to only leave the cars out about 2-3 wks. Good thing we pulled the usable pieces of those cars.

Regarding the fusebox, I would try cleaning the corrosion with CRC electrical contact cleaner first? It's worth a shot as I've seen videos of people cleaning corrosion off electronic modules

dolucasi

Indeed 355. You know that was one of the worst wrecked 190E I have seen in a while. And the airbag did not deploy. Clearly inoperable.
Hopefully the occupants faired OK.

Louieb25

Must have called a dozen plus junk yards, including ones for euro cars. I bought the CRC will spray into the switch and the fuse box to see if I can get things to work again and keep the lights from coming on again.

190Efan

You might also try www.adsitgo.com. They have hard to find MB parts.

Louieb25

190EFan, the link you posted is not working.

355190e26

Glad to hear you bought some of that contact cleaner. I've always had good results w/ using it over the years.

Louieb25

Well great news. After using the CRC on all connections, fuse box, and a wire brush all is now clean. Took about another 2 hrs putting everything back together and cleaning out alot of areas that collect my fall harvest from the trees it sits by. Reconnected the battery, all lights stayed off. Sweet. Checked all functions, except test drive all seem to be operating fine except, fog lights. They work, but when you switch from low.to high beam, left light goes out and fog lights stay on with right. But once you kill fogs, lights go to bright.

Chris

dolucasi

This is great! The high beams take a lot of current, about 8A each, so that fuse connector may still need cleaning. Hopefully someone did not upgrade the high beams to 150W as that will be 12A each. Measure the resistance on your high beams to make sure. I believe the 2 sides are on a different fuse so should be easy to isolate.
Because your car sits outside, you will probably need to more than just cleaning to protect from future corrosion. You may need to put some protective electrical gel on all those connections.
Also make sure the box is weather tight.

190Efan

So sorry, I did a typo. Try www.adsitco.com. BTW, they advertise in the MBCA magazine, "The Star". I checked this link and it does work.

Louieb25

Installed 9004XV-2 Sylvania. One went out and actually got so stuck in there had to pry out the old ones. New ones state for High Beams and Low Beams are 45/65 with 12.8 Volts with Amp 3.5 to 5 amps

dolucasi

Those are fine. No issue there. If they were stuck like that, that maybe another sign of corrosion on the car.