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I agree with sberry and I'll give you an example.
My 164 was in awful shape electrically when I got her and I could tell because of the things you described. My dash lights were blinky and so was my ignition, some times it would crank and just stop. I started at the fuse box, found some glass fuses instead of the normal "German" fuses and all the contacts were coroded. I replaced every fuse, "good" or not and used a copper brush on the contacts.
I then moved to the ground block (drivers side engine bay top) and replaced all conection screws and brushed all of the plates and screw holes (remember every metal inch of the car is a ground) and moved onto every conector within the engine bay and cleaned those as well.
I noticed that my battery holder had considerable corrosion as well as brittle cables so I cleaned the crap out of the holder and replaced the cables as well.
It's kind of a blanket concept, but even if the car has low miles (mine is 93,000), it's still 30 years old.
Now everything works as it should even the windows, minus the clock (have to replace the internal fuse) and it saved me from buying parts I didn't need. Now I just need to work on the fuel system.
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