Rubbery plastic strip
The rubbery plastic strip that runs underneath the drivers door on my SWB 463 is badly cracked. Have asked Gav for cost but how easy is it to replace? I assume that it bolts onto the body but can't yet work out how.
Anyone know (and if so is it fairly straightforward)?
The depressed middle section is a cover strip. Use a small flat blade screwdriver to prise it open from the bottom of the dressed section. Behind the strip you will find a number of screws securing the strip to the cill.
They cast around £100.
Thanks Howard,
Sorry - your post crossed with mine.
So the cover strip definitely comes with the rubbing strip - even though it's not shown on the Parts Catalogue? Wouldn't want to pay £100 and not get the cover strip which is really the only bit I need.
The early SWB ( and maybe LWB) Gs had the lower strips with the clip-in cover strip that hides the screw holes. Later versions were similar, except that the cover strip is hinged at the top. Newer ones are also shorter, so that they end just short of the rear wheel-arch extensions, but the early ones as you have, extend into the wheel-arch extension, through a cut-away.
I was going to suggest that there are a pair of new-looking ones on German eBay for about euro-90 , but they are the newer, slightly shorter versions, so you'd end up with a visible square notch in your wheel arch extensions.
You may well find that they original screws are rusted and need to be drilled-out. I replaced mine with stainless-steel screws ( eBay- a couple of £ for a pack of 50, No. 8, 1 1/4 " self tapping,)
The main rubber strips along the body are attached by 3M type adhesive tape. On AMG versions etc, they contain a shiny finishing strip along the centre groove, but otherwise all the same. On 460s, these strips are screwed on.
Thanks Arnie,
I definitely want to get the longer version - otherwise I'd have to buy 2 so that they match up on either side of the vehicle. I'd also have to live with an odd looking cutout in the arch extensions which wouldn't serve any purpose.
But do the long and short versions for the SWB have different part numbers - or do I rely on the VIN number to ensure correct part is ordered?
As they are physically different parts, they are bound to have different part numbers. However, as is sometimes the case, old parts become no-longer available and then one has to make do with with adapting to the newer parts. Usually, the EPC will flag up illustrated parts which are not for the particular G-model and sometimes it lists two part numbers for an item: one up to ident (chassis) number XXXXX and another from ident number XXXXX
However, I think Gav can give you the details.
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Have done a bit more research (emailed Gav) and seems that I have a non-standard rubbing strip. Mine has a plastic strip that somehow slots into the rubbing strip and effectively hides the screw heads that attach the rubbing strip to the body.
Were these standard on later models (mine is 1991)?
Does anyone else have a SWB 463 with the same arrangement?
The upper rubbing strips also have this plastic blanking strip even though I understand the rubbing strips are glued to the body so no screw heads to mask.
Have attached a couple of pictures - the slightly out of focus one shows the plastic strip held back to show the screw head. Also part catalogue showing rubbing strip as "it should be" but without showing this plastic masking strip.
Anyone any ideas?
Mark