[W126 Coupe] bumper / fog light brackets

[Axel Wulff]

Lou,

Whether you have Euro or North American 5 Mph. bumpers does not matter. The 
fog lights still attach to the bumper shock absorber/bracket.

I guess I have to take another look underneath my car, but the for lights 
are definitely not riveted to their mounting braket. If I remeber correctly, 
they attch with three 8 mm bolts and are quite easy to remove once you get 
the car in the air.

It may be that the pop rivet is used to attach the fog light mounting plate 
to the bumper bracket, but I'll have to check on that.

The part you have circled sure looks like the fog light mounting plate that 
you need. I would go ahead and order those. I'm sure you can figure out how 
to attach them when you have the parts in hand.



Regards,
Axel J. Wulff
610-731-5453 Cellular
610-572-4611 Home






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>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:04:57 -0700

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>Hi Axel, Thanks for the reply

>I took a photo of my parts catalog and circled the bracket, the small part 

>just below it is a pop rivet. I know that this is a US version book but the 

>bracket should be at least similar. Is the euro bumper completely 

>different?  

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>   From: Axel Wulff<mailto:axelwulff at hotmail.com>

>   To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com<mailto:mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>

>   Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:00 PM

>   Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] bumper / fog light brackets

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>

>   Lou,

>

>   The fog lights are not supposed to be bolted to the bumper.

>

>   The brakets carrying the bumpers on the SEC have mounting plates for the 

>fog

>   lights. The bumper brakets for the SE/L do not.

>

>   Is your car a gray market import? If so, when the importer did the

>   federalization they probably got the bumper brackets for an SE/L and 

>just

>   bolted the fog lights to whatever.

>

>   You can get a set of SEC bumper brakets at a junk yard, or on ebay.

>

>

>

>   Regards,

>   Axel J. Wulff

>   610-731-5453 Cellular

>   610-572-4611 Home

>

>

>

>

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>   >Subject: [W126 Coupe] bumper / fog light brackets

>   >Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:30:20 -0700

>   >

>   >Hello All

>   >

>   >Can anyone tell me the part number for the brackets that are riveted to 

>the

>   >inside of the front bumper that the fog lights bolt to? In my black 

>book

>   >parts catalog it is group 88/2 part # 373. I am looking for a pair. For

>   >Some reason they were removed when the car was imported I guess. the 

>fog

>   >lights were bolted to a rough chunk of square steel tube with one bolt

>   >holding it to the end of the bumper. Thanks for any help.

>

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