For the very first time today, I tried to clean the under carriage of my 2003 E320 4Matic Wagon (It is still a W210). I got the wagon only a couple months ago and now the snow is finally melted (still have some on the ground), I thought I would give it a through cleaning.

To my surprise, I did not find any of the four jack pads (I think it is called a plug). I only found the holes (facing down) near the factory jack holes on the side skirt. When I was reading the MBCA Star last night, there was an ad selling jack pads (as a tool which is an aluminum circular plate with a rectangular adaptor) to lift some C and SL class cars. The ad says that many late model MBs do not have the jack pads and need the special tool in order to use a floor jack to lift the car.

I have a 3 ton floor jack that has a very large lift area so it won't fit there without damaging the plastic side skirt and floor pan. I would have to (at least) find some hocky puck type of metal or rubber pieces.

So my two questions for the experts are:

1) Does my wagon have the rubber jack pads (plug) like the ones in my 1997 E320? Maybe the previous owner removed them for better looks? I can see how these 4 black pads disrupts the otherwise smooth brilliant silver side skirts.
2) If yes, what is the part number?

I searched many online catalogs but cannot find it.

Thanks in advance,

I did more search and found these two part numbers:

001 997 95 86

002 997 06 86

I know the first one definitely works for W124 but do not know which one will work for W210.

001 997 95 86

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

Thanks, Kent.

I thought that is the one because I carefully looked at my 1991 300E and found it was almost identical to my 1997 E320. Logic says that the 97 E320 should have the same holes as the 03 E320 (W210).

Will order four.

The 210 body ended in 02, it is now a 211 03 and up

The W210 wagon sold for one extra year (2003) until the 2004 model (W211).