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Originally Posted by vandor
My '72 280SEL came without one, but I added one. It came with a flat mirror, but I bought a replacement mirror glass for a Honda and had a glass shop cut it to the same size.
Even with the convex glass it's just a little better than nothing. I do have the problem of no being able to adjust it low enough.
>The inside of the door, including the window regulator, the glass and the vent window crank regulator, as well as the vent window itself, had to be removed to install it.
Huh? I did not have to remove any of those to install mine.
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I never have either, but then I did not work at the Mercedes dealer and I was not charging myself by the hour for labor to install a mirror.
If you want to do it 'right' then that was the suggested method. If you just wanted a mirror on the door it could be done, but how did you justify charging a customer for four hours of labor when you can do it in one?
There is not enough room here to explain the proper method to find a leak in a 109 air suspension system, but I can tell you that if you inject freon into the air tank and use a propane torch with a rubber hose on it you can find the leak quickly. (The hose will pick up the leaking freon and change the color of the flame as it burns.) Mercedes discovered some techs were using this method to find leaks 45 years ago and was rather unhappy about it. So everyone went back to the factory approved method which took a very, very long time to find a leak.
Just like in the Army: There is the right way, the wrong way, and then there is the Army way.