Bro I appreciate the video, but please until you’re able to post multiple angles, without filming your back, don’t post another one! It was terribly shot and couldn’t see a lot because you were in the way or didn’t get it in the video!
You can peel of the detoriated old rubber of about 17mm wide. It will be whole length of this cowling. Use thinner & glove to clean the glass part and the plastic part. Then buy from on-line 2m lenght of self sealing automotive rubber seal of 19mm wide for about USD5. It will stick very well on cleaned glass & cleaned plastic part of old cowling. Regards.
Thank you very much for this video. I just asked my shop to do this job due to the aged, perished rubber seal on my W211 2005 E350. Of course, they stuffed it up by leaving off the press-fasteners at either end, so that there was a gap between the windscreen and the rubber seal. They also did not Loctite the wiper arm drive nuts so that after about 10 minutes of use the larger arm became free swinging and partly detached. I paid $545 Au for the parts kit and 2 hours labor at $140 Au (totaling roughly $490 USD). I gave the shop Manager specific written directions, but these were not followed by the person performing the job--I don't know why. These shops desperately need a formal Quality System (such as what I use in the Australian Public Hospital System) to ensure that EVERY job type is described, step-by-step, in writing, and then formally checked-off by a second person and signed by the Supervisor, before being OK'd for customer collection. I am tired of having to find the mistakes of these mechanics myself and then return the car for corrections. This has happened on my last three 8 monthly services and costs me significant hours of my free time in corrective action visits! They also replaced front suspension arms at this visit--so because I can't check such workmanship, I'm worried that the front end will unexpectedly collapse in the near future...
Great video man! I have an 07 E350 which is badly deteriorated as well from that part. I'm ordering mine from FCP Euro its about 150 plus tax part #2118300513. Looks simple enough!
Nice video Stevie, thanks for posting. Is the rubber (deteriorated) part that you showed at the start of the video, attached/integrated into the plastic cowling?
