In the spirit of burning the candle at both ends (some of you may know from my other post that I‘m doing an engine swap on a 300SD), I‘ve come to the forum to ask about another long running project of mine, my 200D… It‘s sagging very low in the back, and tends to scrape when driving down particularly steep driveway aprons, in addition to looking ridiculous driving down the road. I was wondering if this is due to the coil springs, or if it is due to the compensating spring in the middle of the axle. Or both.

Thank you all for your time and help!
Nick.

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1979 300D, sold
1984 300D, totaled
1984 300D, sold
1982 300TD, sold to Dad
1976 240D automatic unfortunately; gone, but not forgotten.
1974 240D manual, sold
1981 300D, sold
1983 300TD, no rust, sold
1979 240D manual, rear-ended
1965 200D, four-on-the-tree
1982 300SD
1985 300D
1984 300CD „Rusty“
1980 300SD
1982 240D 4-spd.

Take all of heavy crap out of your trunk. (Humor maybe.)

Springs get old and compressed and the rubber spring pads get old. There is also rust a degradation to the chassis.

I put new rear springs on my Volvo diesel that had similarly issues and not only did it fix the sagging issue the subjective feeling was it handled like a new car.

You did not mention what sized tires you were using.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Okay, thank you! I‘m going to change all three springs… Is there anything else I have to change with the springs? Pads or spacers and such?

Thank you for the help!!

I‘m not sure what tires I‘ve got on there, I have to check!

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1979 300D, sold
1984 300D, totaled
1984 300D, sold
1982 300TD, sold to Dad
1976 240D automatic unfortunately; gone, but not forgotten.
1974 240D manual, sold
1981 300D, sold
1983 300TD, no rust, sold
1979 240D manual, rear-ended
1965 200D, four-on-the-tree
1982 300SD
1985 300D
1984 300CD „Rusty“
1980 300SD
1982 240D 4-spd.