# Mending my Mercedes

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/mending-my-mercedes/10200>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** repair\
**Created:** [February 3, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mending-my-mercedes/10200 "2008-02-03T19:50:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jrwalsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jrwalsh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jrwalsh)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mending-my-mercedes/10200/1 "2008-02-03T19:50:18Z")

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I’m trying to give my 98 Mercedes a better life. How do I easily and cheaply mend a gouge on one interior door? Is there some kind of product you can smear on and it looks patched? Also, I want secure this leather (ish) covered cardboard piece that keeps popping out of another interior door. Is there some kind of epouxy or glue that works on car interiors?

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**Author:** ![Roadrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roadrunner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Roadrunner)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mending-my-mercedes/10200/2 "2008-02-04T20:36:15Z")

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Interior door? Do you mean the inside door panel?

I doubt there is any ‘filler’ that would look any where half decent though.

You may be better off to just replace the panel with one from a recycle yard.

Same goes for the piece that keeps popping out. If the piece is an access panel I wouldn’t glue it in. Perhaps a small screw would suffice.

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**Author:** ![Ranck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Ranck](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ranck)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mending-my-mercedes/10200/3 "2008-02-04T20:47:54Z")

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I doubt it’s “leather (ish).” I would expect it’s real leather on a Mercedes. As Roadrunner suggests, find a replacement from a salvage yard, or spend some real money and order a new piece from Mercedes. I’d go with the recycle yard. If the other part you are talking about is the interior door panel, then probably there is a plastic holder either broken or missing that pops into a hole in the door. These plastic pieces are readily available at auto parts stores. I would not screw up the interior with epoxy. Those panels are removable for a reason. You don’t want to need access and have to destroy things because you glued it in place as a quick expedient.