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Old 08-14-2008, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by sunedog View Post
A foot wide section of the under hood insulation has disintegrated on my 99 ML 320 with about 220K miles. Anyone have a clue what caused this? I don't think it was critters. Any of you have a similar failure? I plan to use black duct tape to seal it up but am concerned about flammability. What do you think?
Heat and age.

I doubt if duct tape of any color will stay there very long.
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