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Jack the car up and place it on some jack stands. Just the left side.
If you don't have any jacks and jackstands use the Mercedes jack. Just don't go under the car while it is jacked up. remove the tire. This will allow you to view the area better. Look at the assembly. Let us know what looks broken. With the wheel the way you discribed something will not look right. The attached image is for the SDL that you have. the previous picture was for the SD.
You do not have a trailing arm in the front suspension. So lets go through each one.
Item #13 and #14, this is your track rod mount and track rod. item 13 will be screwed into item 14 which is the rod. The rod is inserted into the lower control arm, Item # 6. this shoul dbe a solid instalation and connection.
Item #6 This is the Lower control arm. It is attached to the frame of the car at the bushing which are #7. That bolt and rubber bushing go throu the hole at the end of the control arm and that is bolted to the fram of the car. the other end of the LCA should be attached to the steering spindle #11. It is attached by a ball joint #12. the ball joint is pressed into the LCA and then a bolt attaches it to the steering spindle.
Item # 11 is your steering spinlde which is attached to the Upper control arm (UCA) at the ball joint #3. The other side of the UCA is attached to the frame of the car by a bolt and bushings #5.
#4 is your sway bar attachment that goes thru the UCA. Don't worry about this.
Broken pieces. Are any of the following broken. # 6 the lower control arm. #11 the streering spindle. #3 that upper control arm.
#14 the track rod. Are any of them disconnected. Your track arm may have released form the track rod mount, #13.
Are the subframe bushings #16 still attached to the car body?
Your going to have to get the car up on a lift or on jacks to be able to tell us what is broken in the car.
Dave
PS If you can place the car on 2 front jackstands. Remove both front tires and start comparing the 2 front sides. The car is built symetrically, only a mirror image. Compare both sides and tell us what looks different. Remember there mirror images, but each component should look the same left side to right side.
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