Following up on my last thread, I was looking for mounts for my 81 240D, but couldn't find Lemforder. Was worried that the other brands may be third world copies and not the same quality. I was pretty sure from my engine mount job on my 300CD, of which some pics of new and old mounts are here:










That the OE mounts that I had bought from the dealer were indeed Lemforder.

So after verifying that 300D mounts can be used on 240D cars, I ordered Lemforder mounts from Phil for $26 instead of $134 for OE. I just got them today. Found that they were made in Turkey.

Some images:







I'm pretty sure that down to the two blue dots (which aren't shown in the pics from my last job, but that I remember as being there, and they are also referenced in 27-211 of the FSM), these are OE mounts. They certainly have a 123 part number cast in the rubber.

So not German, but made in Turkey.

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Current Diesels:
1981 240D (73K)
1982 300CD (169k)
1985 190D (169k)
1991 350SD (116k)
1991 350SD (206k)
1991 300D (228k)
2008 ML320 CDI (199k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (442k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (267k)

Past Diesels:
1983 300D (228K), 1985 300D (233K), 1993 300D 2.5T (338k), 1993 300SD (291k)