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Originally Posted by benzguy1987
Traveling about 60 mph on smooth road. Heard a "bang" and felt a shudder from the left front. Now the left front seems a little lower than the right. Car ('97 S500) seems to drive well and does not have any creaks, groans, etc. from the front. It does have some vibration around 52-59 mph - but that was there before the noise. Any ideas? thanks....
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You may have run over something and busted one of those big hydraulic bushings on the lower control arms. Tie rod adjusters may have come loose, or any one of about 13 solid bushings up there. I replace them as a group whenever one looks bad.
Finally, your vibration is either a tire weight slung off, your wheels are just shot (that aluminum they made those 140 wheels out of is awful). Or some idiot dealer/shop hauled your car in with the car strapped down with 10 tons of weight - tires now permantnely out of round.
Oh - check your shimmy damner, but that'd be my last place to look (too obvious)