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?
Mirror leak and door stain
Nov 17, 2006
5 Replies
Have you tried rubbing compound?
Whatever this dark fluid was, it did not originate from the side mirror! It must have been thrown from somewhere else...
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.
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
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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