It finally happend
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'08 C 300 Sport, '01 SL 500 & '08 Nissan Frontier SE Crew Cab 4WD
It finally happend
I washed & detailed the wifes C300 last weekend really good, this past weekend we were out & about and I dropped my keys in front of the car, looked under accidentally and noticed the front bumper had some rash on it 
I asked my wife when that happened and she said she swears she didn't do it. I drive this car 1% of the time and would have remembered. I guess something may have hit it on the freeway? but it looks like rash from one of those concrete stoppers in parking lots. I measured the front lip next to my 996 Porsche and my '88 and the W204 is lower
I think MB made the lip too dramatic and too low, why don't car companies make a cheap plastic piece that can snap-on down there and that can be replaced at $5-$10 knowing that the area is super vulnerable. I'm just blowing off steam as it's not really fair to get mad at my wonderful wife. After all it is her car 
-Ryan
I asked my wife when that happened and she said she swears she didn't do it. I drive this car 1% of the time and would have remembered. I guess something may have hit it on the freeway? but it looks like rash from one of those concrete stoppers in parking lots. I measured the front lip next to my 996 Porsche and my '88 and the W204 is lower I think MB made the lip too dramatic and too low, why don't car companies make a cheap plastic piece that can snap-on down there and that can be replaced at $5-$10 knowing that the area is super vulnerable. I'm just blowing off steam as it's not really fair to get mad at my wonderful wife. After all it is her car -Ryan
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'08 C 300 Sport, '01 SL 500 & '08 Nissan Frontier SE Crew Cab 4WD
It might be a little neck-ish but I was thinking what if I had the two lowest-outer areas (Underneath) the area not visible re done in that stuff you spray into pick/up truck beds in place of a bedliner? Our color is dark enough it wouldn't be noticeable and I think it do a great job of protecting the chin-spoiler from further damage in this area? Any ideas Ya or Nay? 
-Ryan
-Ryan
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2008 R350 & 2008 C300
Theres a good chance the "road rash" was there when you bought it. I watched a guy unload a truck and all the cars he unloaded first cleared the tire grooves just fine. When he got to a C300 sport he had to go very very slow as it almost bottomed out on the tire grooves inside the trailer. Then when pulling it out down the ramp he had to come to a complete stop and let the car roll forward on its own so not to scrape bottom. I'll assume that this guy saw me standing there and thought one of the cars might have been mine so he was being careful. I could see how it would be real easy for the C sports to bottom out and scrape just getting unloaded from the shipping trucks.
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it isn't but around my area, the parking curb (the front cement block in parking lots) are some how high. I've hit it a few times with my bmw 528i and sometimes its exit ramps that's a little too steep. nyc is just full of potential vehicle damaging traps....
I used to drive a nissan 240sx while living in another area, never had this issue. go figures
to OP, not sure if the glob will stick on the fender long enough to harden.... vs a truck bed, you have gravity going against you...
I used to drive a nissan 240sx while living in another area, never had this issue. go figures
to OP, not sure if the glob will stick on the fender long enough to harden.... vs a truck bed, you have gravity going against you...
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2021 GLB35, 2007 E350, 2014 ML350 4Matic, 2008 C350 Sport
I brought my C 240 to the Dealer for a service and it came back with the same scrape under the front fender and my car doesn't have a low bumper. It looks like they scraped a cement bumper. Unfortunately I noticed it a couple of days later after I left the Dealer.
Now I check that area every time before I leave the Dealer. They are going to be responsible for this B.S.
Now I check that area every time before I leave the Dealer. They are going to be responsible for this B.S.
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I've seen the same tragic incident at a dealer once. The delivery guy will unload the car, and usually the cars that are being unloaded from the top row all gets scrapped like that 
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LOADED 08' C350 & 14' GLK-350 Diamond White (P1, MM, AMG Pkg, Ln Trkng, Htd Sts, Keylss Go)
happened to me once on a oversized parking block... the c350 will clear all standard blocks, so i assumed it was fine until i heard scrape noise...
get over it, nobody can even see it and it effects no performance
get over it, nobody can even see it and it effects no performance
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The car itself isn't very low compared to other "sport" models, but its the ground effects that drag. Sometimes people forget how low they hang off the front of the car and under estimate the speed they are traveling when going in and out of steep drive ways. In the case I stated, the transport trucks have rails in them for the tires to ride in to make sure they aren't moving all over during transport. Seems like a bad design for a transport truck as there are a lot of cars that are lower to the ground than the C sports, maybe they use different trucks for other cars? I do know that the same company that transports MB's from port to dealer also does other makes as well, so it could be one of those one size fits all type things.
