I watched a coupla utubers who used goo gone to loosen the sticky stuff and kinda roll it off. The turps seemed to actually dissolve most of it and it mostly rubbed off. There was also a suggestion of acetone which I was out of so grabbed the turps. And it smells better than thinner or acetone.
Some utuber asserted that the sticky stuff was like some kind of varnish coating on the plastic. This stuff seems to be pure black plastic with that coating. I think tomorrow I’ll try to remove the trim pieces and get them cleaned up, then try the epoxy with some screen material. Maybe tack them first with cyanoacrylate. It’s kinda odd these are the only pieces that are sticky. --FT Sent from iPhone > On Sep 12, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I have to defer to “Mr. Adhesives” here. As Don suggested, plastic epoxy > with some reinforcement is probably the best approach. > > I’ve never used “Goo Gone” but I’ve heard many sing it’s praises. What you’re > experiencing is the plastic breaking down as it does in all early 2000s > Mercedes. Worst are the steering wheel buttons for the telematics. Problem > with those is that the legends are painted on them, so if you go at them > really hard you end up with white buttons and no legends/icons. > > -D > >> On Sep 12, 2020, at 6:19 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> The seat bottom trim pieces on the ML500 are all sticky. I went at some with >> some turpentine and that seemed to get most of the sticky layer off. Might >> need To do a coupla goes. >> >> One of the pieces is cracked in a couple places. I’m wondering how best to >> fix it. Dan you used some sort of plastic welding thing on the bumper cover >> — what was that and how would it work on trim? >> >> --R >> Sent from iPhone >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
