door kick plates

[futsysmids]

On my 1997 c180 the door kick plates - plastic, grey with silver metal strip inserts.

On the two front doors - the shiny metal strips are coming off - where can I get replacement silver metal strips or possibly carbon inserts to replace these.

 

[television]

On my 1997 c180 the door kick plates - plastic, grey with silver metal strip inserts.

On the two front doors - the shiny metal strips are coming off - where can I get replacement silver metal strips or possibly carbon inserts to replace these.

These things only come complete from MB unless you can fabricate something your self

 

[High-Lo]

I had exactly the same thing happen to my W202. I tried double sided adhesive trim tape from Halfords which held them for a while but in the end I had illuminated sills fitted which just go over the top of the present sills.

 

[television]

I thought that I would come back and suggest illuminated sill plates but High lo beat me to it

 

[Geoff W]

Hi. can anyone give details of suppliers of illuminated cills?

 

[futsysmids]

illuminated sills

try: www.kmsparts.co.uk

 

[futsysmids]

door sills

trying to get hold of stainless door sills is like trying to get doo doo from a rocking horse.

KMS say that they have the non illuminated ones and the illuminated ones but when I rang up they had neither.

Anyway I popped down to my local custom car place (chaucers in Canterbury) and they provided me with some 2mm thick stainless steel tape (on a roll).

I removed the now torn silver strips from the front sills, rubbed it down with sticky stuff remover, used a blade to remove the rest by means of scraping and used a sticky stuff wipe to remove the rest.

I then put this tape in place and using a very sharp knife and a wooden craft smoother moulded the tape to the sill. took about an hour for both sides.

Looks well smart, is waterproof and can be polished up.