I would like to get some assistance with determining the original "replacement" fuses for a 1970 280 SL. When I purchased my car about 2 years ago, in the tool kit was a broken small clear plastic box (31 mm x 57 mm x 7 mm) with a three-pointed star molded on the sliding top. This box contained four 24 mm long white ceramic fuses with the numeral 8 transversely oriented to the long axis of the fuse and one 16 mm long white ceramic fuse with the numeral 25 transversely oriented.
I recently acquired, from, the Mercedes Benz Classic Center in Irvine, California, a clear plastic fuse box (with the same dimensions as above, embossed similar to the one in my 1970 280 SL). However the new box contains six 24 mm long white (?plastic) fuses with the numeral 8 parallel to the long axis of the fuse, two 24 mm long red (?plastic) fuses with the numeral 16 parallel to the long axis of the fuse and one 24 mm long blue (?plastic) fuse with the numeral 25 parallel to the long axis of the fuse. The Classic Center stock # A124 58000 10.
A previous technical manual posting re tool kit contents / fuses indicated that the clear plastic "spare" fuse box in a 1970 28 SL should have originally contained six white 24 mm long white ceramic fuses 8 amp and two white ceramic "stubby" fuses (? 16 mm long) 25 amp, when first exiting the Mercedes manufacturing line.
Questions: Is the above Forum posting information correct To be a purist, does anyone know where the 24 mm and 16 mm long white ceramic fuses with the numeral orientation transversely oriented to the long axis of the fuse can be obtained?
And no, I am not generally as obsessive as this inquiry might suggest.
Thanks!
Eric280SL
1970 ivory on ivory 280SL
1969 white on white 280SL