On the way to work this morning. I actually had a heads up moment last week as I did front disks and pads, saw that I had serious corrosion going on in the LF perch area. No fresh metal showing, so I thought I had time to organize the replacement or even just patch it. Was going to get my grinder out with a wire brush and take a look see one evening this week.

Not to be. This morning at about 65 mph on a perfect stretch of highway I felt a slight bump and heard what I thought were stones in the wheel well. Funny, didn't see anything to run over.... A couple more times I had the pebbles in the wheel well sound. Then I noticed I had to hold a bit of right lock to keep the car straight. Just a tad, was I imagining it or ? So I slowed down, kept to the right lane to my exit, got off the slab, was going about 35 on a side road with manhole covers and bumps, and BANG, there she went.

Was actually able to drive another half mile or so to a parking lot, all straight. Not so good when I had to turn in, but I made it to a parking space. Flatbedded away, hope to have it back in a few days. Fortunate to find a shop with a lot of experience on this repair.

Rgds,
Chris W.
'95 E300D, 375.2K and ailing, yes I know this isn't diesel specific, but anyway...

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Objects in closer are mirror than they appear.

I'm aware of this with the W210's but have never heard of it on an earlier model? How common is it on a W124? Has it ever happened on W123's etc? I've never heard of such.

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

I purchased a 91 300D with a broken perch....had about 209,000 miles on it, spent its life in New England.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 159k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 179k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 145k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 77k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

man thats bad.. the 124 also face this issue,

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

Apparently it's pretty rare, though.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 159k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 179k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 145k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 77k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife