SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: Help on headlight conversion/facelift please....anyone?
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didn't go well.
if anyone has any more info post it up! after hours of searching this is the only thread that even has any info in it at all. the link posted earlier is down, so no help there.
if nothing comes up in the next week, i am just going to buy my own weatherpack connectors and drill a hole in the housing and feed wires through.
if anyone has any more info post it up! after hours of searching this is the only thread that even has any info in it at all. the link posted earlier is down, so no help there.
if nothing comes up in the next week, i am just going to buy my own weatherpack connectors and drill a hole in the housing and feed wires through.
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since this didn't show up in any u.s. based searches, i am posting the link to the actual part for future reference for people looking. the very elusive patch harness!!!!!!!
http://www.kabeldaviko.de/Headlight-...t-Harness.html
http://www.kabeldaviko.de/Headlight-...t-Harness.html
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since this didn't show up in any u.s. based searches, i am posting the link to the actual part for future reference for people looking. the very elusive patch harness!!!!!!!
http://www.kabeldaviko.de/Headlight-...t-Harness.html
http://www.kabeldaviko.de/Headlight-...t-Harness.html
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i clicked on the link time and time again and got nothing but a message in german (i think) about how they would not be back till february 2013. no other info was on page when link was hit.
edit- wtf!! i went back and hit link again and it went right to it. seriously, for over 2 weeks i have been hitting it and nothing!! if it would have lead me there before i wouldn't have had my freak out session!! haha. someone playing tomfooleries on me.
edit- wtf!! i went back and hit link again and it went right to it. seriously, for over 2 weeks i have been hitting it and nothing!! if it would have lead me there before i wouldn't have had my freak out session!! haha. someone playing tomfooleries on me.
Last edited by overZealous1; Jan 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM.
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Haha, I was just as confused as you were. Here's what happened.... A week or so after the link was put up on the first page, the company went on a vacation and updated their website notifying people that they would be away until 2/1/2013. In Europe they put the month first, so for us that meant 1/2/2013!
I was kinda pissed that I had to wait until feb. to order the harness, but then I realized they are a german based company and figured they meant Jan 2 for us Americans (and whoever uses the day/month/year format. Gonna order the harness now as well.
I was kinda pissed that I had to wait until feb. to order the harness, but then I realized they are a german based company and figured they meant Jan 2 for us Americans (and whoever uses the day/month/year format. Gonna order the harness now as well.
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lol. and it all comes together.
chris posted up the pic this morning and i tracked down the site based on the address to it. here i thought i was some great investigator and figured the riddle, when in reality i just don't speak german and couldn't figure out what all was said when i got to that page, haha.
chris posted up the pic this morning and i tracked down the site based on the address to it. here i thought i was some great investigator and figured the riddle, when in reality i just don't speak german and couldn't figure out what all was said when i got to that page, haha.
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now for more parts search. can anyone confirm part 5 and 6 to be the headlight plastic cover pieces that would be needed?
http://www.parts.com/parts/2009/MERC...agramCallOut=6
http://www.parts.com/parts/2009/MERC...agramCallOut=6
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I remember the shop telling me one piece was the plastic piece covering the headlight and another was a bracket connecting the tie bar (rad support) to the bumper or something. I'll drop by tomorrow and take some pictures.
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you can use ballasts from a c class and save a bunch of dough.
chris, i am still abit confused on the instructions in the kit. the plugs are self-explanatory but there is other wires that i have no idea where they go.
the instructions do not make any sense at all in english.
chris, i am still abit confused on the instructions in the kit. the plugs are self-explanatory but there is other wires that i have no idea where they go.
the instructions do not make any sense at all in english.
