[W126 Coupe] Headlight installation help

[stefansj at canisius.edu]

Hey Everyone! I wanted to thank everyone that gave there advice as to how to 
connect the eurolights, with all your instructions it was very easy. Thanks for all 
your ideas Dick they where a huge help! I was interested in running the flood 
lights the way you did as well, how did you do the wiring from the switch?. 
Thanks again, Jas

---- Original message ----

>Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:00:17 -0400

>From: Dick Spellman <spell.yy at verizon.net>  

>Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Headlight installation help  

>To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>

>

>Jas,

>

>As I recall you have an 83 380 that was originally a euro with some 

>conversion done for U.S.  A couple of things to check.

>

>Do you have the original dash set-up with elevation control?

>Did the fogs work on the previous US set-up?

>Are you pulling the dash switch out to the first click to light the fogs?

>Can you place a dc volt meter on the two-prong receptacle where you have 

>plugged in the fog lead on each side (l/r) for the new euro headlight 

>assemblies to see if i they're getting 12vdc?

>If this is where there is no voltage, then I'd be looking at the pin out 

>voltages from the 6-pin connector and confirm correct placement of pins 

>per Steve Nervig's wiring diagrams.

>

>Glad to hear you have the euro set-up now.  Also, have you enabled and 

>lamped the citi-lights?  Did you test that the vac system is fully 

>hooked up and working?

>

>By the way on the early model US SEC the fogs will not illuminate 

>without headlights on and switch pulled to first click.  There is no 

>easy way to enable this on the headlamp switch assembly, I have tried.  

>As a work-around, you can enable the fogs using a separate switch (I 

>used the rear cabin courtesy switch, and I added an indicator bulb to an 

>open instrument cluster socket) to allow them to be lit with no 

>headlamps or side markers in use.  I pretty much leave them on all the 

>time whenever ignition is switched on.  This is more in keeping with the 

>later year model SEC's.

>

>Regards,

>Dick

>

>stefansj at canisius.edu wrote:

>> Hey everyone, I installed my euro headlights today and it was surprisingly 

very 

>> easy. My car is a euro model so everything was there I just had to take the 

>> american lights out. When I did this I found that the 6 prong plug was there 

>> along with the purple vacuum tubes. The headlights turned on no problem 

but 

>> the lower fog lights did not work. I plugged them into the headlights 

correctly 

>> and check the connection with no results. If anyone has any ideas I'd really 

>> appreciate it! thanks, Jas

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