There is a ball joint of sorts that is part of the 5 link system(It is the lower most link and the attachment point is straight down to the ground). These ball joints cause the car to make a click/clunk sound when you accelerate from a stand still. Its the same popping sound that a swivel tilting chair makes when its subjectd to a wide heavy load that hadn't exercised in a little bit. To replace it you have to remove the rear carrier hubs, and although the bearings aren't necessarily damaged at the time, I would caution you to nonetheless replaced them as insurance. I bought the bearing and took them to an indie. He charged me 1 hrs labor for maybe 10 minutes work for punching out the old hub carrier bearing and putting in he new ones . You would be wise to check this ball joint on yours, it cause "clunking" in the rear when you accelerate from a stand still and is easily seen by jacking up th rear and eye balling the balljoint. If its flat and torn, ...you guessed it.

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Albert
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I'm thinking I'm hearing something similar to what you describe. Can you take a pic and point out the particular item you are talking about?

Rgds,
Chris W.
'93 500E
'95 E300D

I'll try. Meanwhile if you look under you car just to the outside of where the rear shock attaches you'll see that lowest "ball joint" If the rubber is broken, that is a problem. I'll also try to find a schematic that shows the part

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