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Old 06-09-2004, 09:08 AM
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Hmmm

Many of our customers would put a 12 year old diesel at only 180K miles back together with NEW Mercedes parts.

YES, it will be knocked out of alignment.
RE: One other question - do you really think the car was hit hard enough to justify fears about alignment issues?

Look at the LF and RR door, the structural impact force was diagonal to the thrust line.
RE: The hits were high on the body structure - well away from any mounting points for any suspension components.

All too often; I see the pictures first, then owner or insurance drags the vehicle in.
Put it on a good alignment rack and it will show the problems.
RE: I'd be surprised if there were any real alignment issues with this one, of course its hard to tell by looking just at a couple of pictures on e-bay.

The following graphic is what I see in the pictures.
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An easy damage, yeah right...-impact.jpeg  
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