Mercedes Benz E430 2000 Fender Removal

Hey, this is E36 Fanatics and this is a video on removing the fender on a Mercedes-Benz

E-430, 2000. Now, unfortunately, you do have to remove the bumper first on this car, and I did that in another

video if you'd like to take a look at it. My bumper was a replacement, though, so it was a little

little bit different than a regular bumper because it had rivets on it. But for most bumpers, it's

going to be really quick to take out, basically. As well, you also can't take out the headlight

assembly without removing the bumper. So unfortunately, it's a little bit more extra work to do a lot

of stuff on the front end body work. So if you're removing the fender, first thing you're going to

want to do is you've got a couple bolts right here. I've already moved them. It's a, uh

three, four bolts running along here. And then you have this fifth small little bolt right here

that hooks up the headlight assembly to the fender. You need to remove that too

It looks like a little eight millimeter bolt. So once you got these couple bolts off

see it's already getting loose. You want to go ahead and come over here

to your front driver's side door or your passenger side door if you're doing that fender

And you're going to open it. And let's see if I can get

of you there is a bolt there a bolt right back there a bolt right back there You can reach it

It's okay to reach right there. But you're going to want to do it from outside the door, not inside the door

And it's just one bolt there. Okay. Okay. So once you got the bolt off around the door area here, you see it's real loose

Now I kind of did it. The opposite way I see some people do it

Some people like to start at the bottom here, but it really don't matter. So you get a screwdriver or something and very carefully pry this apart

It's held in by these little plastic rivets right here, and they just pop out

And then you can see behind it you have one and two more size 10 millimeter bolts

and you pop those out. Okay, and last but not least, I missed one bolt

which is right down here. It's this one right here. A little bit hard to see, but just that last little bolt

and that's all that holds on the fender. All in all, it's a pretty easy job, pretty easy to take off

And here is the final product. fenders off looks pretty good I'll be switching it around hope this helped y'all out and as always

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