I suspect that it will be fine. When the rear subframe mounts get dead
rubber, you will know it. The car get squirrelly going over RR tracks,
but is normal most of the time. Until it gets squirrelly going over
tracks, I'd not worry about it, and even thern you probably have 1-5
years before you need to worry. Drive it.
Larry Turner via Mercedes wrote:
Got a question regarding my rusted connection over the rear
suspension: I'm thinking that if I go through with replacing the
wheel bearing carrier, maybe I can just ignore the rusty connection
and drive? After all, very few similar problems have been found but
granted it's not a problem to get noticed unless the shop uses a
prybar to pry between the connection. Otherwise it's like rust in
most other cases, it just does its thing. I haven't heard of any
sounds or strange handling characteristics when these connections get
rusty and as long as we don't race around corners we'll probably
forget the problem is there. Also, hopefully I can eventually either
weld a sandwich of metal above and below the rusted area and re--bolt
the connection or find a shop to do it if my health never improves to
allow me to get under the car again.
Am I being dangerous in my thoughts? I think I freaked out when the
shop told me the connection between the rear susp and chassis was
rusted. Plus I like everything to work as it should....
Thanks Guys,
LarryT
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