Silly me, how hard is it to take off the underbonnet to access the hoses for the windshield washer fluid? I have a leak, and only saw two screws and a lot of breakable plastic. Is there a place with a picture.

First Mercedes, used to own Lexus, so not familiar with all that padding and how to release it.

Thanks, please be nice. An idiot should be able to do it.

Wow, I saw 22 people viewed this Hawkeye, but no one replied. Can't believe nobody had a clue.

If you get no help, you just dig in carefully and do it yourself on the fly without help. That seemed to work well here Hawkeye.

The hood liner pad thing, has a bunch of plastic square clips that show,
and two Phillips screws, one over at each end toward the fender. The fabric
liner tucks up under these square plastic things, untuck it carefully, It may be brittle after aging.

Then you will see that each square plastic thing is just a clip that you push and it snaps out of the square hole. Undo all 6 of them or so at the top part and the thing will fall towards you. It is a pc that is about 12 inches by the width of the car. The bottom of it has tabs that obviously go in their slots.
3 slots middle, and 3 slots each side. 9 total.

Pull it out and set it aside.

The washer nozzles sit in this thing that looks like a plastic square lid. It has two small square things that need to be gently pushed in, with a small screwdriver. Then the whole squirting assembly will fall loose. It turns out
Hawkeye, that one of your hoses had just come off. Reconnect it and put the assembly back in its hole. Two tabs, tuck em in, and then get your wife's mirror and you can see how the square pieces get pushed back in by looking at the other squirter assemblt with the mirror.

Put this pc back, then get the big black thing that attaches back to the hood.
The three tabs times three areas are a pain to put back in, helps if the molded pc is warm and pliable. Put ones sides tabs in, and put the screw in half way. Then lean on the engine and push the plastic up against the hood and the middle three will go in. Pull back on the plastic thing, line up the middle tabs without losing the one side tabs which are already tucked in, and
put the middle ones and then the last side 3 tabs in. Put other screw in,
tighten both.

THen go back and snap in all the top square tabs. They snap in place, and
finally retuck the fabric hood liner.

Not too bad, twenty minutes.

There you go Hawkeye!


Your friend,


Hawkeye


Now call Mercedes and order the Repair Manual DVD for $ 195 and don't wait on people in this forum to help. It takes too long, or they just won't help.

Hey Hawkeye,

Be sure to wear gloves when you first un tuck the hood pad. It is made of fiberglass, and that stuff gets in your hands like little bitty glass slivers.


Good luck,

Haweye

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