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Old 03-05-2008, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by TimFreeh View Post
What symptoms is your car exhibiting?

Unless you have been a regular participant in the Paris-Dakar rally it would be hard for me to believe that your car needed such an extensive list of front end parts after 82K miles. I recently went over the front end of a 98 CLK320 with over 215K miles and the only components that showed significant wear were the outer tie rods - which were replaced for $25 per side IIRC.

While I have not had any problems with my ball joints I have heard that ball joints are a problem on the W202 chassis car.
At 70-80 mph, it feels like tires are out of balance. Now -- my tires currently need replacing and, I'm sure, are out of balance. But...when they were newer and confirmed in balance, I still had that "vibration" that I'm describing but to a lesser extent.

I'm going to get new tires, get them balanced, change the steering damper and see where we are. I am going to visually inspect the boots and bushings while I change the damper.
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