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Old Mar 9, 2007 | 12:46 PM
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side steps

Just had car washed at hand car wash i use sometimes come back home to find that 1 of the side steps has what seems like oxidisation stains,tried everything to get them off with no success, has anyone else had this problem? tomorrow i will go back and try and claim off the hand wash but doubt if i will have much success, looks like new sidesteps, 1 week old!
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Old Mar 9, 2007 | 02:20 PM
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sorry to hear it, I have the SAME EXACT problem. My story is that the car wash person used a degreaser on the side of my car (ridiculous, i know...) when it went down the side of the car it stained the steps pretty bad... tried many things also.

New steps installed by merc are just over 3k...
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Old Mar 9, 2007 | 05:20 PM
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sorry to hear it, I have the SAME EXACT problem. My story is that the car wash person used a degreaser on the side of my car (ridiculous, i know...) when it went down the side of the car it stained the steps pretty bad... tried many things also.

New steps installed by merc are just over 3k...
I priced them about 4 months ago ....$1,350 from the dealer.....not installed. It takes about 2 hours to install them approximately.

Dave
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Old Mar 10, 2007 | 11:53 PM
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are you sure that price isn't just for 1 side?
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Zack305
are you sure that price isn't just for 1 side?
Both sides.
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Old Mar 11, 2007 | 05:16 AM
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we have it on our sidesteps too P4MER
back to the dealer, that's twice in 12 days, this is not good IMO
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Old Mar 12, 2007 | 07:21 AM
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yep cheap car washes use the worse crap ever to clean cars.... had this on the x5 had to have it professionally detailed to remove.....

now just use soapy water and no car wash..........
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