SL350 R230 Door Mirror Repeater Light

[Jonathan Schofield]

My wife's R230 SL350 has failed the MOT due to a non working repeater light in the offside door mirror. Guess what! Can't get one anywhere and with most of the dealers closed due to this Covid-19 thingy I am unable to source one. The garage says the colour is immaterial as we only need the internal LED fitting.

Now I know that Boris has allowed MOT's to be suspended but she is unable to Tax the thing without a valid MOT...

Any one know who might have one, new or secondhand. I have tried that scrapyard site but no joy as yet.

Thanks

Jonathan

 

[EmilysDad]

is it the unit at fault or the wiring to it? It seems that most of the indicator repeater faults are a break in the wiring to the mirror due to continually folding & un-folding

 

[Jonathan Schofield]

That's a good question! I am only going on what the garage have told me and they are quite good. However they did say that it is a regular Mercedes fault in their experience.

Is there a fairly simple way to check? I'm not too bad at taking things apart, putting them back together is a different matter.

Jonathan

 

[Jonathan Schofield]

Yes, the setting is for it to fold every time the car is locked. Same on my other Merc too.

So is it easy to check this? I have some time on my hands at the moment.

 

[EmilysDad]

Yes, the setting is for it to fold every time the car is locked. Same on my other Merc too.

So is it easy to check this? I have some time on my hands at the moment.

You could remove the repeater from the mirror & try it on its own

There must be a You Tube clip showing how to remove it & also for the mirror to check its wiring