Submariner1
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- CL500 2009 5.5
When I got the car, the handle had snapped but been mended with glue. Amazingly it held.
As the repair was a bit messy I enquired about a new handle.
Oh dear on the CL500 216 its only available in a whole boot floor with handle @ £361!
I saw a thread about this, but cant find it now, and they said Winchester MB had them for the S Class.
Well it snapped off again last week, so I checked and its exactly the same part no, so ordered it £8.31!
Result.
Looks the same etc.
I was hoping it came with the under frame that goes underneath as can be seen here, its the outer support ring.
So the new part pushes down into the under frame.
I assume the only thing that (rather amazingly) holds it together must be some claws on the outer frame, that catch on the sort of rectangular honey comb section ( there is one on each side).
Does one just get a knife or thin flat and push the frame out and at the same time push the new part with the handle upward and out?
Is there a knack or trick method to doing this easily ? Other than in this cold weather .. outside job, maybe warming the pastic with a hot air gun so its claws are not cold-brittle.
I am only asking, as it concerns me, that on the later cars S 221? and definitely the CL216 you can only buy the whole boot floor. My worry is, did MB use the same part (that is a definite) BUT say lashed some glue on this catch mechanism as they squeezed it together?? And thats why you have to buy the whole floor?
If its just pushed together, its going to be incredibly tough extracting this, and to be expected as this catch stops it falling apart when ypu lift the floor.
So it would be great to know the proceedure, in case the later ones are glued. As it might prevent me smashing the lower frame .... and then incurring a £361 boot floor.
Bluntly if that were the choice, having reglued it, I would just leave it!
Sadly the lower frame which should be less than £8.31 (as its a much simpler part .. no handle, or fulcrim pin or springs) is not available .. I guess that part is probably glued to the boot floor.
As the repair was a bit messy I enquired about a new handle.
Oh dear on the CL500 216 its only available in a whole boot floor with handle @ £361!
I saw a thread about this, but cant find it now, and they said Winchester MB had them for the S Class.
Well it snapped off again last week, so I checked and its exactly the same part no, so ordered it £8.31!
Result.
Looks the same etc.
I was hoping it came with the under frame that goes underneath as can be seen here, its the outer support ring.
So the new part pushes down into the under frame.
I assume the only thing that (rather amazingly) holds it together must be some claws on the outer frame, that catch on the sort of rectangular honey comb section ( there is one on each side).
Does one just get a knife or thin flat and push the frame out and at the same time push the new part with the handle upward and out?
Is there a knack or trick method to doing this easily ? Other than in this cold weather .. outside job, maybe warming the pastic with a hot air gun so its claws are not cold-brittle.
I am only asking, as it concerns me, that on the later cars S 221? and definitely the CL216 you can only buy the whole boot floor. My worry is, did MB use the same part (that is a definite) BUT say lashed some glue on this catch mechanism as they squeezed it together?? And thats why you have to buy the whole floor?
If its just pushed together, its going to be incredibly tough extracting this, and to be expected as this catch stops it falling apart when ypu lift the floor.
So it would be great to know the proceedure, in case the later ones are glued. As it might prevent me smashing the lower frame .... and then incurring a £361 boot floor.
Bluntly if that were the choice, having reglued it, I would just leave it!
Sadly the lower frame which should be less than £8.31 (as its a much simpler part .. no handle, or fulcrim pin or springs) is not available .. I guess that part is probably glued to the boot floor.