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Originally Posted by benzedrine
I'll take a look at it this afternoon. The wire is mounted on a little tab that looked factory to me. It looks like it has been there for decades, if not the life of the car.
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I can absolutely assure you that the wire is shadetree engineering, not Mercedes engineering. The tab is original equipment, but that is not its intended purpose.
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Originally Posted by benzedrine
I assumed it was there to catch the rod if the rubber part failed.
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The part that typically fails is the nylon "ball joint" on the rear side of the component. They turn to powder after 20 or so years and just disappear.