Mercedes uses many different brands. After paying the dealership price for those parts you might be rather frustrated to find they have been made by TRW (and marked as such) who on the whole are usually cheaper than Lemforder.

As for a specific thread comparing these parts - well - in a way I've tried to find out who made them originally and I started a thread on that some time back: Problem is Mercedes chopped and changed.

Lemforder as a brand is more often than not not found on "original" W123s. Boge, however, are. Boge are now part of the same group as Lemforder (ZF) and therefore are probably going to be about as good as you can get.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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