190E 2.6 Sportline , A smashing time .

I think you are probably right about that.

Side indicators were a legal requirement from 1986, I think.

Catalytic converters from around '91 ish so they it would be a bit rude to charge for things that had to be on there.

It was an expensive car when new, wasn't it.

Well its still going well . In fact scary well . I did 323 miles doing mixed driving tother day . Motorway , town etc - I think its called combined in motoring circles. Anyhoo it used 52.29 litres of motion lotion meaning I got 28.08 MPG - Mind blown .

So to treat its goodness I fitted a new bonnet liner . Loads of pattern part ones available and to confuse the issue theres different ones for different engines . Come the end i got a genuine one , just gave the dealer the reg number and it turned up next day .
Pig to fit though , used a tin of heat resistant contact adhesive , a few light coats on the foam sound dedening and two on the bonnet . managed to reuse all the top push in clip thingies too . Repainted the black lower part of the bonnet whilst i was doing the job.

Well what an absolute faff the last few days have been, What should of been a 1 hour job became 11 hours although this was my choice ( not the 11 hours bit but the doing of it .
Anyhoo saga was the indicator / washers / horn / do bloody everything switch was getting temperamental . Indicator switch was very stiff to use and burying it in WD40 did zilch.

So i bought a new one direct from Merc at a wallet crushing £102 inc the dreaded and set about fitting it . basically steering wheel off , three screws , one plug and done --- except that there were two wires soldered onto two wires ( of which there are many ) on the old one . this went to a bank of three fuses which went to many many wires of various colours and basically these fecked off all over the yin yang .
Yep bloody aftermarket alarm fitted and connected the likes id never seen like some kind of hideous parasite .

So it was either cut the new switch and connect as was or remove said parasite and i plumped for the latter esp. given id no key for said parasite and it probably didnt work anyways.

First day was the front half , siren thing , some control box i found lurking under the glovebox and its wiring , it linked into the starter circuit which i did loose but got back after finding a random merc specific plug thing it went too . I did however loose all the electric windows and passenger side central locking .

Day 2 was hideous , found a load more under the passenger side carpet , two more boxes parcel taped the the trans tunnel which went to all four window switches WHY !!!!! Plus a load that went to sommat that ran the door lock on the passenger side.

Come the end its all now working minus the Alien parasite
PS What the hell is the thing in pic 5 that goes to the starter and what is the round thing with a light and some kind of port poking out a rectangular hole , this is still in it and looks merc based but does nothing ?











Any idea what this is V



And this thing V











These were linked to the window switches










Wiring removed on day two v

I bought one a few months ago and it had a similar parasite; lots of work removing it. Nice job getting it rolling.

Neighbours lawnmower 1 , my drivers door window 0

That probably means the entire side of the car was peppered with rocks...