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Re: what are these parts???
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Originally posted by schumi
on my 1987 300E, there is a small, cylindrical plastic piece that is threaded that goes through a hole in the sheetmetal above each headlight, and the bottom part of this piece connects to the top of the headlight housing. What are these things??? When I converted headlights to Euros, I couldn't get these pieces to stay put on the Euro lights. They don't seem to do anything that I can see.
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They fill the holes in the radiator support some monkey programmed in the die cutter. It was cheaper to make the plugs than to retool and remake 1.2 million radiator supports. 
Joe
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