SVH
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- Joined
- Mar 19, 2018
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- 6
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- Location
- Southern California, USA
- Your Mercedes
- E320 Estate/1994/M104
Hi!,
I found this forum to be a great resource over the past few months. I'm currently working on my 94 E320 Estate. It's a Southern California car so you wouldn't expect to find any rust, Wrong! I was cleaning one day and noticed a small raised area along the bottom seal along the back quarter window. I peeled back the lip of seal and found rust! I was sick to my stomach. I started peeling back the whole bottom and found 3 areas along the pinch weld where it has secretly been rusting. Some surface rust, some flakey rust. The other side, the same. Yikes! There was no signs or evidence of rust from the exterior.
Since then I've been all over the web researching how to repair this before it gets worse. I found this site where a member "Dude99" has tackled the same problem however I hope my case is no where near his. I really wont know until I remove both windows.
I've purchased new seals and extra clips from the dealer. I think I have all the "other things" to do this repair. Now it's finding the right day or night when I'm mentally ready to "pull the trigger".
Thank all of you for your contribution to this site.
SVH
I found this forum to be a great resource over the past few months. I'm currently working on my 94 E320 Estate. It's a Southern California car so you wouldn't expect to find any rust, Wrong! I was cleaning one day and noticed a small raised area along the bottom seal along the back quarter window. I peeled back the lip of seal and found rust! I was sick to my stomach. I started peeling back the whole bottom and found 3 areas along the pinch weld where it has secretly been rusting. Some surface rust, some flakey rust. The other side, the same. Yikes! There was no signs or evidence of rust from the exterior.
Since then I've been all over the web researching how to repair this before it gets worse. I found this site where a member "Dude99" has tackled the same problem however I hope my case is no where near his. I really wont know until I remove both windows.
I've purchased new seals and extra clips from the dealer. I think I have all the "other things" to do this repair. Now it's finding the right day or night when I'm mentally ready to "pull the trigger".
Thank all of you for your contribution to this site.
SVH