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Mar 1, 2005 | 10:35 PM

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94touring

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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Mar 1 2005, 06:19 PM

my mercedes uses a coiled up peice of wire and a contact arm to be the variable dimmer.

plan b might be to adapt like a vw bug sender in there

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They sell those kinda things off the shelf at like pep boys or anything??

Mar 1, 2005 | 11:01 PM

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Sinful7

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i wonder if you can use this stuff:

http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?cata...t%5Fid=278-1345

You might have to sand some enamel off.. I'm really still not sure what it is in the pic, so I'm taking stabs in the dark here.

Mar 1, 2005 | 11:17 PM

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94touring

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Another picture, maybe it shows the wire better.

Mar 2, 2005 | 08:40 AM

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j9fd3s

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kinda looks like the air flow meter guts from an s4.

the mercedes has a peice of thicker guage wire its coiled up, this is what the mazda senders look like too