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Good evening Gents
I collected my 'new' car yesterday - an obsidian black 2007 E320 CDI Avantgard Estate - which was the consquence of PXing (moving on) my late lamented 2004 E270 with an SBC problem ...ahem.
So I am now in that positon of going through it to find all those little faults that will inevitably be there. The first one is this:
A warning popped up tonight advising that the O/S fog light bulb had failed. On inspection I found that not only had the bulb 'failed' but on looking through the lense it seems that the entire reflector has come off and is floating about in the under bumper cavity.....and the lense has all the signs that something cataclysmic has occured in that it is blackened. So, not happy.
I had a 2001 E320 at one time and recall that there was an access flap in the 'pan' under the bumper that was secured with two twist connectors. Under this car (2007) I can see the shape of a flap but prodding about in the evening half light I cannot 'see' how/whether it opens.
Has anyone experienced fog lamp failure on a 2007 model and if so could they please advise whether the flap is openable and how. Also, I assume the bulb is and H1 could it be H7 - a confirmation as to which would be appreciated. And, finally, as I notice that these lamps are readily available on eBay, is this another one of those Mercedes design features that results in foglamps on these models failing so spectacularly?
Many thanks
I collected my 'new' car yesterday - an obsidian black 2007 E320 CDI Avantgard Estate - which was the consquence of PXing (moving on) my late lamented 2004 E270 with an SBC problem ...ahem.
So I am now in that positon of going through it to find all those little faults that will inevitably be there. The first one is this:
A warning popped up tonight advising that the O/S fog light bulb had failed. On inspection I found that not only had the bulb 'failed' but on looking through the lense it seems that the entire reflector has come off and is floating about in the under bumper cavity.....and the lense has all the signs that something cataclysmic has occured in that it is blackened. So, not happy.
I had a 2001 E320 at one time and recall that there was an access flap in the 'pan' under the bumper that was secured with two twist connectors. Under this car (2007) I can see the shape of a flap but prodding about in the evening half light I cannot 'see' how/whether it opens.
Has anyone experienced fog lamp failure on a 2007 model and if so could they please advise whether the flap is openable and how. Also, I assume the bulb is and H1 could it be H7 - a confirmation as to which would be appreciated. And, finally, as I notice that these lamps are readily available on eBay, is this another one of those Mercedes design features that results in foglamps on these models failing so spectacularly?
Many thanks