500E/E500 front lip add-on! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Daesun · #1 01-03-2003, 04:07 PM

Can anyone track down this add-on front spoiler lip?

need2speed · #2 01-03-2003, 04:48 PM

Daesun: it looks like that is a whole new bumper cap, not just a lower extension....notice how it turns inward below the fog lamps before flaring out?

I still like the Neilsson Composite CF piece but he hasn't responded back with prices yet....

tom woolner · #3 01-03-2003, 05:03 PM

The right side appears different from the left. The right does not appear to have that indentation.
Tom

placo1 · #4 01-03-2003, 05:11 PM

Hmm Toms right the left and right side edges do look different.

The bottom of the lip also looks a bit fuzzy almost like it was airbrushed or Photoshopped.

I tried to do a search for any manufacturers with the name on the front plate and nothing came up. Anyone else have any better luck? Maybe this lip doesn't exist?

Michael · #5 01-03-2003, 06:10 PM

Whoa, that's kuhl! Dean, for perhaps the first time ever, I disagree; to me it looks like an add-on piece. The fog lights appear unchanged (to me, anyway) as does the rest of the bumper.

Any of our German/Euro friends able to chime in on this?

Daesun · #6 01-03-2003, 06:18 PM

I'm also of the opinion that it is an add-on piece, as there is a clear line that intersects the foglights horizontally, and the bumper is identical to stock form from that point upwards. As far as the left and ride sides being different, I think that's just the reflections creating an optical illusion. Here is another photo of the same lip:

I like it, but the Nilsson piece was nice as well. I think this one is worth looking into, if anybody can find a lead on it.

need2speed · #7 01-03-2003, 06:49 PM

That last picture shows some serious front wheel offset!!

Daesun · #8 01-03-2003, 07:11 PM

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Originally posted by need2speed
That last picture shows some serious front wheel offset!!

I know. Ain't it great?

It also appears to have a hood/front grille conversion a la W140 S500. I'm not a big fan of that, but the lip I like.

#9 01-03-2003, 07:22 PM

Wow... the second photo looks tough.

I love it, wish I could see the back as well, more pic's please.

#10 01-03-2003, 07:38 PM

This company Gockel is listed in, "Custom Mercedes-Benz" if you guys have the book. They are a small company in the Schwabische Alps (Switzerland?) in Gammertingen specializing in wide body kits. Not much info on the web about them though, they may be out of business.

E DREAM · #11 01-03-2003, 08:04 PM

HOLY SHIEEEEEEEEGHT !!!!! that second 500E izzzzzzz off da hiezooooooook !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael · #12 01-03-2003, 08:47 PM

What's that vertical line in the rear window?

Yeah, Dean, I'm thinkin' 30-40mm spacers to get the fronts out that far....cool look, though

yhliem · #13 01-03-2003, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by roas
This company Gockel is listed in, "Custom Mercedes-Benz" if you guys have the book. They are a small company in the Schwabische Alps (Switzerland?) in Gammertingen specializing in wide body kits. Not much info on the web about them though, they may be out of business.

Swabische = Swabian. they're in German, not Swiss

Subman · #14 01-04-2003, 02:20 AM

http://www.goeckel.de/untenlimi/mercedes/w124/frame_aero.htm

Check it out there is a # on there home page, if you know german you can call and order one.

http://www.goeckel.de/

#15 01-05-2003, 01:45 PM

I talked to goeckel abt 2 years ago before starting on my car....If im not mistaking they quoted me the lip for somewhere around $350-400 don't remember exactely. Goeckel has some cool stuff...but when I tryed ordering nothing ever happend..they never got back to me...I don't think they want to deal with ppl from the US.. but i think they have some cool *****