Why so many problems all at once - well you gotta fire all your cannons when you can!

1. Reading the threads on the heater fan on W124s I need to ask what is the correct rotation of the fan motor and what is the correct orientation of the fan blades (or squirrel cages)? My fan works OK but the air flow is useless.

2. Does anyone have or know of good solutions to worn out front shock absorbers on a 4 matic? The 4 matic is unique and different to the standard W124 and Mr Bilstein does not have a replacement. Originals are Sachs and not anything like as good as Bilsteins and very hard to get here. Any ideas out there?

3. This car has a terrible wheel shimmy (violent steering shake) at about 90- 100 kph (about 50-80mph) in some conditions. So bad that the mercedes star on the bonnet gets very blury! Tires are replaced, wheel runout checked, lower ball joints new, shock absorbers not great but, in my experience, not bad enough to cause this and at the very least the bearing function of the shock is OK.
Any one else had this problem? and got any solutions...

Thanks in anticipitation. Farm benz