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Old May 20, 2019 | 10:12 AM
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help with electrical connectors

I've got a dashboard fuse panel with a burnt-out connector so I'm attempting to swap a salvaged panel in for mine, assumed the burn pretty much wasted the whole panel's safety (pic 1). There are two types of connections to the panel, the colored power take off fittings that plug into the panel, and the wires that go directly into the panel itself (pic 2), of which there are 5; those latter ones are the ones I'm trying to figure out how to either back-out, or find the correct crimp-on connectors and go that route. Any thoughts? I'm posting this on the AMG w203 forum too just to get more exposure. I actually went to the local dealership to see if they could help (cough-cough MB Bloomfield Hills) - who's notoriously enthusiast-hostile (because they're knowledgeable and harder to BS) and they said there's a special tool that they'd have to order but didn't have time to deal with it so they said they'd text me back. Right.

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wires into back of panel with crimped-on connectors, which i can't seem to back out (can't bend the tabs in preventing removal) and can't find on the internet

fuse panel in car with fried power take-off connector
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Old May 20, 2019 | 10:33 AM
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And as a follow-up question: is there any reason I can't take a power take-off connector, hook it up to the wire going into the burnt one, and connect it at some other slot on the panel (as long as I noted this in the fuse diagram)? Isn't it just like a home circuit-breaker board, where the order/location of the breaker on the panel doesn't matter?
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