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So my wood trim has been slowly coming off because I guess the adhesive has become defective. Pretty sad if you ask me. My E550 feels like a tank, but I will say the interior does make me miss my 2011 Audi S5 - the interior in those Audi’s are incredible for what you pay.

I did recently come across another thread stating there was a lawsuit that had been settled with MB regarding this wood trim (Burl Walnut Wood Trim Lawsuit). I may see if I can achieve anything by filing a claim or reaching out to MBUSA.

Anybody else have this issue?

RosSauce

I had the same, I bought replacement trim for the dash and used epoxy to glue back on the trim peeling off around the seat controls since that one requires removing the entire door card to swap.

Nbxjskamg

Just wrap it and call it a day. It is expected for a 10+ year old car.
if you want to replace it with ash wood, i have used full set laying around in my garage. You can have it, just pay shipping.

604550C207

Yah, after the heat wave last summer the wood trims started coming off...
tried gorilla double sided tape to resecure with no avail.
Eventually the ends coming off got snagged on things and broke off.

cabbiejunkie

been looking all over north america for the ashwood black set...2 of them discontinued forever....not even germany












picked up a mint 2011 cab and am
in love when im outside but get depressed when i get in!! Spend hours looking dor these trims daily...

nkx1

I just bought a 2010 550 with black ash trim and yep, the trim is starting to peel up near the door handles.

As fas as I can tell, I should be able to just apply some 3M Extreme double-sided tape to the peeled areas to tape it back down (way less messy, and possibly more effective than glue or epoxy). This wont work for cracked pieces, obviously.

It's funny, all the trim in my 2008 CLK is is perfectly fine.

I think I'm too late to the party to participate in the class action settlement, unfortunately.

laramr

Environmentalists have chased away all of the active ingredients that made adhesives really work well in the past.

cabbiejunkie

i am going crazy trying to find this trim for 2011 e350 cabrio...been searching for 3 months now : (

ash black the one on the instrument panel above the glove box....

tried every scrap yard and seller on eBay no luck, tried every dealership no luck....

only 1 has it in all over the world and that is at thousand oaks MB and they won't release it to me stating that it is on hold for a customer...been months though...said they have a policy...

i managed to find all the others and my cabriolet is looking mint, but the one on the dash is a HUGE eye soar every time i get in....

please if anyone can help...or suggest anything?????

cabbiejunkie

604550C207

I see you, and I raise you.

pl626

Try Madera Concepts, very good, but not inexpensive...

cabbiejunkie

yikes....i shelved out a pretty penny and was able to locate all the others...only one left is the one above the glove box....

the hunt continues....

Chevota

If/when mine ever caused me grief I was planning on filling the cracks with clear epoxy. If they popped off I'd use silicone to glue it back. Those pix look like it not only cracked and popped off, but curled as well? Uggg. Maybe plan is flawed...
So now I think I'm leaning toward what Nbxjskamg said, and wrap it. It appears, from the pix, that you could toss the wood altogether and wrap the plastic under it? Or would that be too recessed and look weird? The plastic doesn't come out does it? So basically you'd need some material cut and formed to shape of the failed wood, then wrap that and glue it on?

Norskie

Looking for ash

nkx1

Wrapping actually sounds like a great idea. It doesn't seem like it should be too recessed, since the wood is such a thin piece anyway. I don't know if the plastic comes out. If it doesn't, I wonder if you (or installer) could press down the wrap as much as possible to clearly see the outline of the plastic, and then use an X-Acto knife to cut around it without doing too much damage? I can see the seat adjustment button area being a problem though.

If you search "black wood grain wrap" on Google, it looks like there are a bunch of options. It might actually look really cool, akin to the newer E Class coupes.