It looks like at least (1) spring is broken on my S420 (1995, rear passenger side for sure). Owing to the preceived safety concerns and not owning a M-B spring compressor, I was wondering if anyone has had success in banding the spring. For those unfamilar (as I am) with the spring banding concept, apparently they compress the spring and band it with 5 or so steel straps. The compressed spring is then inserted into the spring saddles in its compressed state. The specific wheel is raised so that the saddles contact the spring. All that remains is to cut and remove the steel straps.

Best regards to all.

Tower

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1995 E320 -171k-km
1995 S420 -333k-km