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Originally Posted by TMAllison
. . . Sounds like someone hit a driveway swale too fast and bottomed the front. That can impact the lower front belly pan and bottom of the rad directly above and casue the rad to shift rearward slightly. PO did this to mine as evidenced by scrape marks on front pan and missing middle pan. . .
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My '96 E300 also had a "radiator shift" probably from the same cause. Minus the pan, the bottom of the radiator is rather exposed and the pan really isn't that much protection. My mechanic and I managed to bend the radiator support back to where it belonged and I replaced the front-most pan.
Jeremy
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