My right rear check strap went south in a big way all of a sudden. It was objecting to being closed or opened from first position.

I closed it once and thought I better not do that again, it took a lot of force, and I once ruined a BMW door because of a bad check strap. It came partially loose and bent the mounting point back-and-forth a few times too often.

The next day I forgot and opened it, it slides to first position plenty easy, but then doesn't want to go anywhere. I took it apart on the spot, it was of course very dry, absent grease.

I greased it up, worked it back-and-forth in a vise, it seemed to be OK, but not ideal. I left the door panel off to see how it came out. It's not good, making noise already again, needs replacing. One front door starting to be noisy as well.

The difficulty, all of the part descriptions refer to front doors only, I have a hard time believing they would need to have two different items, one for the front one for the back.

I did find one site, a competitor of Pelican, who say that it fits front and back.

Anybody know? I replaced all of them on my SDL when I bought it, but I had access to decent later model gasser 126 models still at boneyards back in 2017.

This is my first W123 check strap experience. I doubt I'll find anything good at a boneyard.

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