Use the proper tool, avoid the cheaper Klann clones as this video show

The Dangers of Replacing Coil Springs on Your Vehicle - Full Clip - YouTube

Good used springs are easy to source at recyclers and online forums.

I've only watched part of that video, but why did they remove all the stuff to get the spring out? It didn't even look like they compressed it all that much? I certainly didn't have to remove anything like that on my 126 or 124.
I had the 124 spring compressed quite a bit, very little room between the coils when compressed... The 126 rears had about a finger or so of room between the coils and it made it out OK.

Also around 9:28..why on earth would you do that? Barely compress the spring, gut everything around it, then try to pry the spring out like that?
It seems like had they actually compressed the spring it would have came out without this much effort..maybe I'm wrong or maybe i've been doing it wrong..

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that video is incredibly strange.

They are using a compressor that has a cutout on the top plate so it can slide into the tension bolt, this leaves a big room for the tension bolt to pop free - and the guy prying it actually just did that, pried the spring sideways - it tilted the tension bolt out of the top plate and away the spring goes.

btw - I also could not understand why take off all sundry parts to replace springs on a W210?

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