bigasotonuk
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- Your Mercedes
- C43/55 AMG 1999 / C230K 1997
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- #21
Thank you for posting all those pictures.I'm now a very worried,if more knowledgeable bunny.
I don,t think yours will be as bad as mine, I had seriously considered not doing it and breaking it once I had seen the extent of the rust, but as I had not long fitted the 55 AMG engine i soon dismissed this.
The jacking points you can see had to be made up as these parts are part of the chassis, if the entire sill had not been so rotten he was going to cut a hole in the sill to access it to repair and then insert a plate back over the hole in the sill, this might be a method that could be used on yours.
A word of warning, the outer sill is now only available as a gen MB item, and is over £300 to buy. There was/is a modification for the jacking point to strengthen it on the 43 because of the weight of the car, he fabricated mine differently to the original strengthening it where nesacary.