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Well, it seems some of you are lucky your failures happened while barely moving. I was in Munich on Friday on my way home on a business trip, and visiting an old highschool buddy. While we were driving out to Tegernsee, a little Alpine lake on the southeastern side of Munich, we entered the local Autobahn behind a W210 Diesel Wagon. I did not see the details of the designators as after a few hours there my neck was sore from snapping around to read the designators on the thousands of MB's tooling all over the place. Anyway, as the guy floored it to accelerate the front lifted a bit, and then when he went to shift it dropped, with the driver's side dropping to the ground and the coil spring and some other parts spewing out from under his car. We scooped up the spring and drove it over to the guy and handed it back. He was in shock. I noticed you have all had this problem on the passenger side of the car while this incident involved the driver's side. Looks like a serious enough problem I will be having my car inspected shortly.
When you see recalls for interior junk and other items that are not life threatening, and then you see something like this, it seems the NHTSA and MB have their heads in a dark, dank, foul smelling place. This guy in Munich was lucky as he was still only going a good 30 mph or so when it happened to him. At 100 mph, which we were doing shortly thereafter in my buddy's MB Diesel van from his business, an accident like that might have been fatal for the driver and occupants of that car, as well as a few others in the vicinity. I hope MB comes clean on this issue. Jim
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Own:
1986 Euro 190E 2.3-16 (291,000 miles),
1998 E300D TurboDiesel, 231,000 miles -purchased with 45,000,
1988 300E 5-speed 252,000 miles,
1983 240D 4-speed, purchased w/136,000, now with 222,000 miles.
2009 ML320CDI Bluetec, 89,000 miles
Owned:
1971 220D (250,000 miles plus, sold to father-in-law),
1975 240D (245,000 miles - died of body rot),
1991 350SD (176,560 miles, weakest Benz I have owned),
1999 C230 Sport (45,400 miles),
1982 240D (321,000 miles, put to sleep)
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