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rwh - 17 Nov 2006 05:36 GMT

My 99 E 320 leaked some kind of dark fluid from within the driver side
mirror while I was out of town for a week and where the fluid dripped on the
door paint it appears to have left an indelible stain.Can anyone help me
identify a fix short of having the door repainted?

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Carolina Watercraft Works - 17 Nov 2006 05:51 GMT

Have you tried rubbing compound?

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> My 99 E 320 leaked some kind of dark fluid from within the driver side
> mirror while I was out of town for a week and where the fluid dripped on
> the door paint it appears to have left an indelible stain.Can anyone help
> me identify a fix short of having the door repainted?

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David J - 17 Nov 2006 09:16 GMT

>My 99 E 320 leaked some kind of dark fluid from within the driver side
>mirror while I was out of town for a week and where the fluid dripped on the
>door paint it appears to have left an indelible stain.Can anyone help me
>identify a fix short of having the door repainted?

Whatever this dark fluid was, it did not originate from the side
mirror! It must have been thrown from somewhere else...

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me - 17 Nov 2006 12:51 GMT

> My 99 E 320 leaked some kind of dark fluid from within the driver
> side mirror while I was out of town for a week and where the fluid
> dripped on the door paint it appears to have left an indelible
> stain.Can anyone help me identify a fix short of having the door
> repainted?

I would try to take a sample of the dark matter and see if there is a
solvent that might work. There is a product call "bug and tar remover"
that seemed to work pretty well when tar from a new road got on the
lower half of my rear bumper.

Hope this helps you.

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Guenter Scholz - 17 Nov 2006 12:55 GMT

this may be a long shot, but if the car was parked outside, some of the
bird droppings can be very liquid and resembles a dark fluid that is
difficult to remove after - it leaves a stain that comes out ohh so slowly
with rubbing compound

cheers, guenter

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T.G. Lambach - 17 Nov 2006 16:46 GMT

It's acid; the owner's manual specifically warns of exactly what
happened to your car if the mirror should break.

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