Wife goes out to 92 wagon, clack clack, comes back in complains door
is busted..
Sure enough door check strap makes wicked clacking noise, also it
jumps about in the door.
Drop by dealer to get a new one, clue if it's in stock there you
wonder how long they last.
In looking the old one is
However the broken one was made in 92, and had broken
both ears off. Don't these usually have the check balls
fail? Versus breaking the ears.
I've never heard of the steel ones breaking in any
other way except blowing the balls out the side of
the slider. It was the old-style pot-metal ones
Not a great design, they have a limited (often VERY short) lifetime.
At least they aren't expensive, and not all that bad to replace.
The door liner gets easier with practice, I can do one in 5 min now!
Peter
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I had one last me a little less than four years. I think it's an overly
complicated design. The door check in my Audi consists of a two step roller
cam and a simple S spring--dirt simple, completely external and not much
to wear out. Hopefully MB has a simpler and more robust setup in its newer
It's one of those things that if you lubricate it, it will last longer
but who does that?
I usually grab any newish ones I see in wrecks and keep em as spares, I
think from memory the wreckers charge 5 bucks or nothing if buy a pile
of other stuff.
Hendrik
Zeitgeist wrote:
I had one last me
