This is kind of a dual fault oops, but here goes.

In my naivety, as I was buying my first Benz, I did not noticed that the bottom of the car had been treated to a rather brutal rust proofing / putty / chassis black job. This shabby job puttied right over the tire jack holes!

My oops (which caused me to notice this horrible putty job), took place while I was raising the car with a 3 ton hydraulic jack placed under the auto on what I thought would be a strong jack point (just behind the front wheel well). Well, as I was raising the car, the putty began to crack and crumble. Not too bad, but very curious and irritating.

So now I am challenged with trying to undo the poor rust cover-up job, and do it right. If not for anything else, so I can access my jack holes in case of emergency, since I don’t carry my hydraulic around in my trunk.

I know this has most likely been covered (pardon the pun), but can anyone offer suggestions as to how to ‘undo’ what has been done poorly, and do it right? I am a bit apprehensive about what is under all that chassis black and bondo.

The lesson here for me. Don't be afraid to crawl under a used car you are thinking about buying.

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James

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