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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