mercmancdi
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- Joined
- Dec 6, 2011
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- templepatrick - co antrim
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- 2009 E250 cdi 08 cls320 cdi ,2007 e280 cdi '2005 E 280 CDI ,VW TOUAREG ,JAGUAR S AND xTO NAME A FEW
Took off wheel of my 07 e 320 and found these 3 pockets full of dried up dirt which as you can see was causing rust to start , I had to bend a screw driver to dig them out and scrape off excess rust then blew the pockets out with air gun there’s drains in here but once they get wet muck that’s them disabled , I only saw this by luck so if anyone has there wheel off clean out these 3 holes behind the strut . I am rust treating mine now and going to pack the pockets up with good filler so no more muck can gather and will shape them high at the back so water runs straight out. Hope this helps someone out before it rots away on them. Sorry if someone else already posted this I could not find anything , the photo of dirt on the floor came out of these 3 pockets sitting on top of the chassis just behind the strut.