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Does anyone else have a noticeable gap between the hood and front bumper? It measures at 5.8mm, I'm wondering what other W205's measure at. The hood looks to be aligned properly so moving it forward more might make it misaligned in other places, so maybe it's something with the front bumper. Either way I'd let to have it fixed to what's considered an "acceptable" amount of gap.
I haven't had a chance to inspect another one in person yet but from pictures of cars on autotrader many seem to have less gap. I'd be curious what others measure at for gap.
You can adjust the top and reduce the gap to minimum. There are 3 screws- see pictures.
I'll check it out when I get a chance, are these pictures from a c300? Is it just a matter of loosening the screws and pushing the bumper in then tighten? Is it hard to get both sides even? I may just have my dealer do it so I dont screw things up more and hopefully it's simple enough they won't charge me
I'll check it out when I get a chance, are these pictures from a c300? Is it just a matter of loosening the screws and pushing the bumper in then tighten? Is it hard to get both sides even? I may just have my dealer do it so I dont screw things up more and hopefully it's simple enough they won't charge me
Yes C300. It is easy - loose and adjust. Just don't leave pressure or over tighten.
Interesting thread - (1) your Gap Is normal (2) the Narrow gap is NOT NORMAL - and the NARROW GAP is way wrong and to anyone in a collision center would "seem" to indicate a front end accident and bad front grill replacement.
I guess no one here so far understands the reason why the Normal gap is there....
The gap is totally normal. Honestly, looks better with it. That narrow gap from that white c300 looks bad to me, doesn't give it that decline affect, if that makes any sense. Just like it was mentioned by previous users, you can easily adjust to tighten if it bothers you with the top three screws.
It would also make logical sense to use the panel gaps around the rest of the car as your guide. You want all of the gaps around the entire car to be fairly uniform.
I just measured my fender-hood gap and it is exactly 1/8 inch (~3mm). My grill-hood gap was about 4.5mm, but I have had my grill on and off multiple times.
I adjusted my grill down to a 3mm gap and the uniformity looks good to me.
Thanks to this thread for giving me something to do on my Saturday afternoon
So I adjusted it down to around 4mm. Now I'm noticing a little more gap on the left side where the hood curves when stepping back and looking at it for some reason. I tried messing with the other adjustment further down on the left side of the bumper but didn't seem to help. Not sure if I want to live with it or deal with having the dealer or body shop tinker with it and maybe I'll think it's worse than before lol.
This is an interesting discussion: on my 2022 C 300 coupe, the front bumper cover had been damaged, so I replaced it. All screws, top and bottom, lined up and were reattached. The problem is that the bumper cover on the right (passenger) side isn't high enough to properly line up with the hood/bonnet. Drives me nuts because I like everything to align. My back tail lights on the quarter panels and trunk didn't line up, and I replaced the pull-down motor (or actually, reattached it) and everything lined up perfectly. I had seen one picture in a forum of a torx screw behind the grill that could be loosened to adjust the front bumper cover, but it didn't work with mine. Does anyone know of an adjustment to raise the height of the bumper cover on just the passenger side? I even adjusted the bumper on the hood/bonnet so the hood would sit lower, but it's still not right. I can't handle panels that are misaligned.
This is an interesting discussion: on my 2022 C 300 coupe, the front bumper cover had been damaged, so I replaced it. All screws, top and bottom, lined up and were reattached. The problem is that the bumper cover on the right (passenger) side isn't high enough to properly line up with the hood/bonnet. Drives me nuts because I like everything to align. My back tail lights on the quarter panels and trunk didn't line up, and I replaced the pull-down motor (or actually, reattached it) and everything lined up perfectly. I had seen one picture in a forum of a torx screw behind the grill that could be loosened to adjust the front bumper cover, but it didn't work with mine. Does anyone know of an adjustment to raise the height of the bumper cover on just the passenger side? I even adjusted the bumper on the hood/bonnet so the hood would sit lower, but it's still not right. I can't handle panels that are misaligned.
Thanks for posting the link. Yes, the hood bumper was the first thing I had tried, (adjusted all the way down to the lowest setting) but the hood isn't really the problem, it is the height of the bumper cover. I had found another discussion about that topic, but the adjustment available on the car photographed in the discussion was different than mine. I am sure Mercedes must have some form of adjustment for the vertical movement of the front bumper cover, but I have not been able to locate it and my dealer doesn't have a body shop, and they just referred me to who they deal with, so that I can pay hundreds more to learn where a screw resides.
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