What symptoms is your car exhibiting?

Unless you have been a regular participant in the Paris-Dakar rally it would be hard for me to believe that your car needed such an extensive list of front end parts after 82K miles. I recently went over the front end of a 98 CLK320 with over 215K miles and the only components that showed significant wear were the outer tie rods - which were replaced for $25 per side IIRC.

While I have not had any problems with my ball joints I have heard that ball joints are a problem on the W202 chassis car.

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98 Dodge-Cummins pickup (137K)
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