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Old Oct 5, 2018 | 03:35 PM
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I'm so new....

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I'm new and just learned my '08 E350 4Matic is a W211. Not sure what that means but I hope I'm posting to the right site.

Also, I have searched threads for my issue without success.

My problem: Recently my dash messages are dim. Not the lights that one controls to iluminate the dash, but the messages themselves. Reading them is like reading through sunglasses in the nighttime.

Any idea's what caused it or how to fix it? And thanks in advance.
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Old Oct 6, 2018 | 06:53 AM
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Are you wearing polarized glasses?
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Old Oct 6, 2018 | 09:28 AM
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Sunglass reference was used as an example...

This isn't a sunglasses issue. The sunglass anology was used to paint a picture. The dim messages that appear on my left guage. i.e. marker light out, parking lamp out, etc. are actually displaying dimmer than usual, about half intensiyy. And it's not all the time. Some days the level of brightness is normal, other days it's dim.

thanks
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Old Oct 6, 2018 | 11:18 AM
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See here: https://www.benzworld.org/forums/w21...ter-issue.html your IC part # should be 2115404148 or 2115404348 need VIN to confirm, search used to swap board. Only other option is to replace IC via dealer or independent.
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