9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] SDL using more front shocks than oil.(update)
I replaced both front shocks over the weekend and both were trash.
I tried to determine if there was anything I did last last time to cause
VERY early failure but this job is so straight forward it would be hard to
do it wr
I replaced both front shocks over the weekend and both were trash.
I tried to determine if there was anything I did last last time to cause
VERY early failure but this job is so straight forward it would be hard to
do it wrong. Over tightening the shaft nut would not be a good thing but I
had not
Harry Watkins wrote:
What could cause the front shocks to fail so often?
Here is the history as I know it:
I bought the car in Dec 2003, the PO had the front and rear shocks replaced in
March 1999, Pd $120 for the front plus $98 labor, I don't know the brand. The
rears were $132 plus $98 lab
sday, June 13, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] SDL using more front shocks than oil.
And if you buy them from someone like Rusty, they have a lifetime
guarantee.
Craig
I hope you're right about that but from what Gary (at Rusty's) told me on
the phone today was they were goo
And if you buy them from someone like Rusty, they have a lifetime
> guarantee.
>
>
> Craig
I hope you're right about that but from what Gary (at Rusty's) told me on
the phone today was they were good for failures under a year. For the one
that failed after 14 months, I have to try Bilstein.
Doe
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:04:56 -0400 John Berryman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Jun 12, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Harry Watkins wrote:
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> > Anyone out there BTDT. Anyone with a clue, I can't see a way to
> > install them wrong but I could be wrong.
> >
> > Help!!!
> >
> > Harry Watkins
>
>
Are you using bilsteins?
Harry Watkins wrote:
What could cause the front shocks to fail so often?
Here is the history as I know it:
I bought the car in Dec 2003, the PO had the front and rear shocks replaced in
March 1999, Pd $120 for the front plus $98 labor, I don't know the brand. The
r
KYBs and "McShocsks" are about equivalent to not changing the bad
Bilsteins except they ride harder.
Peter
On Jun 12, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Harry Watkins wrote:
Anyone out there BTDT. Anyone with a clue, I can't see a way to
install them wrong but I could be wrong.
Help!!!
Harry Watkins
Some require that you install the rubber snubbers on the upper shaft
of the shock. What brand are you using?
What brand of shocks were you using? I've heard that nothing but Bilsteins
should be used because they make a Mercedes ride and handle like it should.
I installed McParts store (monroe?) shocks on my first 300D, and they seemed
OK to me until I rode in my next 300D which had KYB's installed on
What could cause the front shocks to fail so often?
...I don't know the brand.
First find out. If they weren't Bilsteins you wasted your money,
IMHO. (Monroes, etc.) The SDL is a fairly heavy car.
-- Jim
What could cause the front shocks to fail so often?
Here is the history as I know it:
I bought the car in Dec 2003, the PO had the front and rear shocks replaced in
March 1999, Pd $120 for the front plus $98 labor, I don't know the brand. The
rears were $132 plus $98 labor.
When one of the fr
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