My 124 : : : : : : : : No Interior Lights....please Help

[Naz360]

Hi everyone.....
hope ur all treating ur 124's well.

I brought my first 124 3 months ago....
I waiting nearly 6 months to get the one I wanted....
its the 300CE sportsline......Dark grey(almost black) with Cream interior....... and the finishing touch are the 18" mono block AMG's.....(wow what a sight.....)

Cars running fine...a few rattles here and there but nothing major....


Let me get to the main problem.....
My interior lights are not working at all...ive checked all the fuses and all is fine....
Very confused of what the problem could be.....
None of my buttons are illuminating as they should be.... the only thing that is working is the main instrumental clusters....the rev meter, speeddo etc

my heater switches, dials, switches, the whole lot are not working at all........so u can imaging how dull the car must look for my passangers when the whole dash of the car has no lights....people who are in the car tend to think that my head lights are not on...(however these are working fine)

(Am I right in assuming that the window buttons should illuminate only when the head light switch is turned on or should this be on at all times.......)

I would appreciate any feed back..........


p.s should be posting some pictures very soon.



thank you in advance

Naz

[g4hacker]

i had that happen about 2 weeks ago.
The reason they went out, is because some wiring in the trunk shorted out....

[karugs]

Are you sure the switches are not working? They could appear to be not working because they have no light. On the W123 chassis the rheostat/dimmerswitch controls this function (lighting). You might have turned it the other way around when fiddling with the trip odometer.

[jluizzi]

smell any burning? had same prob and escaladed to other circuits quickly. faint elec smell. dash wiring harness had short. mechanic able to splice in new sect

[mharness]

Hello,

Had the same problem with my '89 300e and it turned out to be a relay in the dash. Although I had a mechanic fix and can't tell you exactly which one it is I suspect that it's near the ignition switch and accessible through the instument cluster opening.

Mike

[harveys4]

I lost all of the instrument lighting together with all of the switch lighting. These are controlled by the dimmer rheostat in the instrument panel.

The dimmer may be faulty, and in my case a solder joint had come apart
Remedy

Remove instrument panel and re solder