Ashley Lawrence
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- Your Mercedes
- E220 CDI Classic Estate, 2004
Hi All,
Recently had my W211 Estate MOT'ed and failed on nearside ball joint & steering gaiter. Had these replaced & had the car front wheel tracked.
Had the car back and the tracking was out (drove 550 mile round trip to midlands & back); had it front wheel tracked again for free and it was still out - so they 4 wheel tracked it - which has sorted it.
I've also had the car jacked up on the front nearside (via a trolley jack) whilst having the EGR deleted (guy was trying to find the inlet pipe and took the bottom covers off)
Now all this work has been done over 3 week period.
Yesterday came back to the car (parked on the level) and the nearside rear suspension had dropped; started the car, went back to normal. Drove to my destination, again parked the car on the level and suspension dropped on the same side.
Drove back to friends and parked the car half on, half off the kerb with that wheel on the kerb. Came out 30 minutes later and the suspension hadn't dropped and nor did it drop when I filled up with fuel 10 minutes from her house.
Drove home, no issues, never any warning lights. Came out to the car this morning (car is reversed into a parking space, slight up-hill gradient with rear end higher than front) and the nearside rear suspension is down.
Could any of the work done in the last 3 weeks be related to this; or does the w211 have a Star based suspension re calibration (as per the S class) or is it a sensor issue or something else?
Many thanks in advance.
Recently had my W211 Estate MOT'ed and failed on nearside ball joint & steering gaiter. Had these replaced & had the car front wheel tracked.
Had the car back and the tracking was out (drove 550 mile round trip to midlands & back); had it front wheel tracked again for free and it was still out - so they 4 wheel tracked it - which has sorted it.
I've also had the car jacked up on the front nearside (via a trolley jack) whilst having the EGR deleted (guy was trying to find the inlet pipe and took the bottom covers off)
Now all this work has been done over 3 week period.
Yesterday came back to the car (parked on the level) and the nearside rear suspension had dropped; started the car, went back to normal. Drove to my destination, again parked the car on the level and suspension dropped on the same side.
Drove back to friends and parked the car half on, half off the kerb with that wheel on the kerb. Came out 30 minutes later and the suspension hadn't dropped and nor did it drop when I filled up with fuel 10 minutes from her house.
Drove home, no issues, never any warning lights. Came out to the car this morning (car is reversed into a parking space, slight up-hill gradient with rear end higher than front) and the nearside rear suspension is down.
Could any of the work done in the last 3 weeks be related to this; or does the w211 have a Star based suspension re calibration (as per the S class) or is it a sensor issue or something else?
Many thanks in advance.