Mercedes-Benz 1998 Touch Up Paint

1998 Mercedes-Benz Touch Up Paint (47 OEM Colors)

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Paint Pen

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Paint Bottle

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customized Color Paint Bottle. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the included basecoat delivers a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Spray Can

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using ourcustomized color Spray Can. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun.

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Pens

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish. Each order includes a basecoat and a midcoat pen.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Bottles

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customized Color Paint Bottles. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the basecoat & midcoat deliver a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Spray Cans

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using our customized color basecoat & midcoat Spray Cans. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun. Each order includes a basecoat & a midcoat paint.

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Where to find Mercedes-Benz color code

Find Your 1998 Mercedes-Benz Paint Code

Mercedes-Benz used to place paint color codes in various locations. Recent models have the code on the driver's door jamb. On older models the code can be hard to find; location and format vary by year or model and may require searching multiple tags. Most codes are three-digit and numeric only. On the color ID tag, the code appears as the fourth group of numbers at the top. Example: 373 corresponds to Atlantic Blue; names typically stay consistent across models.

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1998 Mercedes-Benz Background Info

The 1998 Mercedes-Benz Vibe

Welcome to 1998, the year Mercedes-Benz decided every driveway from Stuttgart to San Francisco needed to look like a high-end jewelry box. This was the era of the executive heavyweight-the E Series and S Series-along side the "new kids" like the CLK Coupe and the SLK with its fancy folding roof. Our database is locked onto the survivors of this era, the heavy hitters like Brilliant Silver Metallic (AXALTA 899708) and the deep, bottomless Obsidian Black Metallic. In '98, the vibe was conservative, Teutonic, and meant to look expensive even when parked next to a dumpster. If you weren't driving a "Silver Arrow," you were probably driving Midnight Blue and pretending you worked for the consulate.

Paint Health Check

We're firmly in "The Peeling Era" here. Back in the late '90s, the factory was tinkering with new bonding processes and high-solids clear coats, and the results were... let's call them "eventful." The legend of Mercedes build quality is bulletproof, but the clear coat on your 1998 E-Class roof is likely toast by now. You've got a high risk of delamination-that's when the clear coat decides it's had enough of the base color and starts lifting off in sheets like a bad sunburn. If your hood looks like it's developing white, cloudy patches or "leopard spots," that's the clear coat losing its grip. Once the air gets under there, the game is usually over for the original finish.

Restoration Tip

In this era, your worst enemy isn't just a shopping cart; it's a tiny rock. Because of the way these clears were layered, a single stone chip is a gateway for moisture to crawl between the color and the clear. Seal those chips immediately. Don't wait until the weekend or the next car wash. If you see a break in the clear, get some touch-up on it to "glue" the edges down before the delamination starts to spread. Also, keep an eye on the wheel arches and the bottom of the doors-the factory stamping back then left some edges a bit thin, making them prime real estate for a "spider web" rust breakout.

Mercedes-Benz Models Released in 1998

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