http://www.rebuildmastertech.com/mercedes-benz/e-class/e-class-air-suspension-parts/
They have rebuilts for all models. Curly needs to buy that E55 for me
himself.
--R
On 2/18/16 9:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
The W220 will cost you over $2000 just to sort out the air suspension if all
four corners are toast. At minimum you’re looking at over $1000 for an axle,
and that’s if you’re DIY’ing it. Double that if you’re paying someone to do
the work for you. Only two sources for air shocks, MB and the aftermarket air
suspension guys (whose name escapes me at present.)
Believe it or not, there are rubber blocks to support the suspension if it
collapses. They’re not common and you have to know what they are to find them.
I got a pair for the S430, about $25/each.
It’s possible the problem is the compressor rather than the shocks. That’s
more likely if it’s down all the way around, and it also causes all kinds of
warnings in the instrument panel. Still not a cheap fix, but you can DIY the
compressor for a lot less than a replacement.
That’s just the obvious. No telling what else is lurking in the DAS.
Dan
On Feb 17, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
The worst cars today: 1. A pottyak rollerskate of some form. the front of
the seat is just a few inches behind the front edge of the door opening. Hard
to get into, and extremely difficult to get out of. Being a ragtop, I could
not grab the roof to extract myself. It basically involved rolling overand
crawling backwards to get out of the heap.
2. Some saturn something or other. Missing, every warning light on, and door
handles broken.
On the MB Front: Got to drive a couple of newer MBs today. a 2003 S500.
Rolling on rubber bands, with deflated (airmatic) and missing. It would
probably have 20 problems on the stealer computer. Lessee: We used air
sispension on the old 300SEs, and they got a reputation of being expensive to
repair. Many nice 300SEs went to the knacker because the owner thought the
cost of fixing the air suspension was too much.
So, Lets put the problem on steroids! Lets add a while bunch of sensors and a
computer (all of which break) to this system. And where the 300SE came with
block that could be used to keep a car driveable, lets make the thing rolloff
bait when the airmatic craps out. On the positive side, the other stuff
inside the car seemed to work.
Also drove a 2004 E55 AMG. No Missing, still rubber band tires, and deflated
airmatic.
both cars had trouble getting bids. The S was in the $2000 range, the AMG was
around $1500.
Remember a couple weeks ago there was a S55 AMG with deflated airmatic, Clay's
stealer who could screw up, but could not fix the airmatic.
I sure do like my 123s, 124s and 126's!
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