I had to change my deck lid. The deck lid that I had was superceeded by what I have now. On the deck lid is what I believe the call the handle. This is a plastic piece that is about 2 feet long. It sorta holds the licence plates lights in place. My old unit had 3 of those nuts that look like the licence plate fasteners. When you take out the fastners, you see 3 hex holes in the deck lid at that part. The handle screws into the deck lid via 3 screws and all 3 of them go into the hex nuts. My new one has 2 hexagonal holes and the center hole is round. The parts shop is at a loss to tell me what goes in the center hole.

I looked at the 2001 E class as far as the rear deck handle or whatever they call it is and they have 2 screws, 1 on each side and something that might be a carriage bolt in the middle. Can someone tell me what the center bolt is? It looks like a carriage bolt but I am not sure. If someone has the parts number, that would be great.

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