Has anyone ever even heard a wisper about W124 seat springs outside the
dealer network?
I love the German cousins , but $230.00 for a spring sounds like an American
defense contractor's price to Lockheed for the infamous $600.00 toilet seat.

Could the dealers in Deutschland sell them at a more reasonable price?

How about some of the "Former Soviet Citizens"?

The drivers seat spring and the passenger's are, I believe, identical. The trick would be to check out the passenger side seats in a junkyard. Or you could use tennis balls or do the pool noodle trick mentioned on this Forum or find the broken parts and crimp and/or weld them back as they were before.

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1990 300D 2.5 Turbo sedan 171K (Rudolf)
1985 300D Turbo TD Wagon 219K (Remuda)

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R.E.,

Thank you. I was hoping against hope that there would be some covert
access to the NEW springs.
Someone on the Forum has posted pictures of his before and after prior
to installation + the NEW springs are definetly Beefier.