Tom,

Thank you for the reply.

The springs I put in today are the Lesjesfors available on this site - and have the correct mercedes PN stamped right on them. I think these were OE. Im sure they are correct.

Springs I just took out had same ire size a the OEM's, but had half a turn more wire. Their only marking was 4 red slashes. No MB part # or anything like that.

Spare tire is in the trunk. All aspects of loading the car are correct. Full tank vs. empty tank hasn't seemed to make much difference. I need to add about 75 lbs of weight to the very rear of the trunk to equalize it.

Any other thoughts? I really want to fix this the right way and find out why its messed up for my own education and sanity.

dd

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Oh, sorry I missed that you put in springs. It may take a few months of running to get it all to settle in an reach the correct heights.

I would put the 75# of ballast in there and run it and see if it does not settle in to the right height.

Tom W

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You will have to read the manual on how Mercedes recommends reducing rear wheel negative camber. They don't even talk about positive camber and is probably due to hardly anybody ever experiencing positive camber, most always negative camber where the top of the wheels lean in toward the body. Also, a whole lot of Mercedes engineering doesn't make sense when you try to logically guess at what is going on. Its almost like they go against common logic to get to the end result, which calls for a very high level of intelligence to understand and then work on these cars. It causes a whole lot of frustration as well, until you begin to think like they do.

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Isn't it that if a spring has more wire than another of identical height and wire thickness, it'd be a softer spring? So if you removed the one with more "wire" then that means you got stiffer springs in your car, that explains the positive camber. Just a thought.

edit: Nevermind, I just reread and it said you had the + camber prior to the new springs. Maybe something's wrong with your control arms?

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