Pagoda SL Group

W113 Pagoda SL Group => Body, interior, paint, chrome, and cosmetic items => Topic started by: Shvegel on January 07, 2011, 23:15:38

Title: Body Underseal Source Found
Post by: Shvegel on January 07, 2011, 23:15:38

Hi all,
the product that matches the underseal(rubber coating on the bottom) of our cars is Wurth underbody seal in Beige. This product is no longer available in Beige from Wurth. However, I have been searching for months looking for some of this product that someone might have laying around and voila!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WURTH-UNDERBODY-SEAL-BEIGE-2-30-OZ-CANS_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZalgoQ3dLVIQ26ituQ3dUCIQ26otnQ3d2Q26poQ3dLVIQ26psQ3d63Q26clkidQ3d6209262415895247407QQ_trksidZp5197Q2em7QQcategoryZ6755QQitemZ250513634962#ht_500wt_956

Title: Re: Body Underseal Source Found
Post by: mdsalemi on January 08, 2011, 15:24:56

Beige?  Can anyone weigh in on this accuracy?

I've never seen anything but black or black-painted-body-color on the W113, and never seen beige.

Title: Re: Body Underseal Source Found
Post by: IXLR8 on January 08, 2011, 16:21:16

I don't recall the contributor, but recently someone referred to a car on the Mercedes Heritage website as a perfect representation of a restored car, and the under-body over spray is beige.

I think it was described as overspray from the body color primer or filler.


Joe

Title: Re: Body Underseal Source Found
Post by: Shvegel on January 08, 2011, 17:50:05

Michael,


 Go to this site:      http://motoringinvestments.com/MainPage.htm

Go to the Mercedes for sale page and scroll down 35 or so cars to number 46. A blue 1971 280SL that has sold twice over 100K. This is my benchmark. I have all these pictures saved on a disc.

Beige underseal then painted with the paint being allowed to drift under the car.  http://motoringinvestments.com/images/C81_blu/under/a_transplate.JPG


Underside of Bob Possel's car before restore. Left side shows underseal in Beige overcoated with amber wax based corrosion protection(Cosmoline) used for shipping purposes.

http://www.sl113.org/forums/uploaded/bpossel/200612298256_underside.jpg

Also a 1969 280SL Tom Colitt  restored from a low mile unmolested state. Notice the underfloor area.

http://www.sl113.org/forums/uploaded/bpossel/20061230215158_000_2652.jpg

Title: Re: Body Underseal Source Found
Post by: wwheeler on January 10, 2011, 03:45:23

Wurth has also discontinued the beige color in the aerosol spray cans of stone guard as well. I have used the stone guard spray can before on touch ups but is not as course of a texture as this product. This product sounds like it should match the original texture very well.

My 111 coupe has the beige color underneath with body color overspray. I am not sure if the 111s were manufactured the same way as 113s though. The wurth beige color is very close to my original beige underseal.