Afternoon maintainance

[MIW615]

Spent a useful afternoon servicing my wiper mechanism on my W210 - thanks to Parrot for detailed info. Also removed the undertray to inspect my cross-member, luckily it was fine, I coated the cross-member with a generous coating of wax oil and made up four plastic spacers on my lathe so that on assembley there was room for any water to drain away. Also I drilled a 8mm hole in the undertray just in front of the cross member to aid drainage of any excess water.

A job well done and anyone with the same car should have a look just in case there is any lurking problems afoot

 

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Spent a useful afternoon servicing my wiper mechanism on my W210 - thanks to Parrot for detailed info. Also removed the undertray to inspect my cross-member, luckily it was fine, I coated the cross-member with a generous coating of wax oil and made up four plastic spacers on my lathe so that on assembley there was room for any water to drain away. Also I drilled a 8mm hole in the undertray just in front of the cross member to aid drainage of any excess water.

A job well done and anyone with the same car should have a look just in case there is any lurking problems afoot

Nice feeling isnt it when it all goes well and constructive

 

[MIW615]

Nice feeling isnt it when it all goes well and constructive

Yes Malcolm and just beat the showers too :grin::grin::grin:

 

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Yes Malcolm and just beat the showers too :grin::grin::grin:

What did you make the bushes out of, just curious

 

[MIW615]

What did you make the bushes out of, just curious

I had a small length of nylon rod so I turned down two spacers 5mm thick with a 12mm diameter and bored 4mm hole - to keep them in place I glued them to the underside of the undertray which made refitting easy.
I guess as an alternative you could use the plastic nuts that are used on number plates - would do the same job.

 

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As the likes of you and I know what trapped water does to metal, is it that the modern wizz kids that design these do not know this.

Good thinking and thanks for posting it