As Marshall said, MB has a huge array of springs and rubber pads to cover
worldwide applications. If you order from outside the US, an MB is
infinitely customizable. In the US, we get ones loaded with accessories,
and a small choice of colors and interiors and perhaps 2-6 options. Part
of this is because they had to adapt to the American lifestyle, and part of
this is to overcome the vast ignorance of the US car sales force.
When I redid the suspension of an old saggy 220Sb, we installed taxi
springs. What a difference. That car could have run the Paris-Dakar
rally. THe manual for the "from 1959" chassis has spring tabnles in it,
and it is a bit overwhelming, but you can identify what is stock, and what
you should order if you want to go a bit stiffer.
Some options that change the spring strength/rate:
PS
PB
AUTO trans
5 speed
AC
Sunroof
SRS
and the list goes on.
Then there are choices for soft, normal and harsh or sport
It's been a long time since i looked at the charts, but there are choices
for additional normal load, and even ride height, or less/extra clearance.
The paint stripes on your old springs will indicate what they are, and what
you want. If you have a US model, they are pretty much all the same for
say a US 85 300D. they all come with PS, PB, auto, etc. If you can
identify the paint stripes, then you can identify exactly what you have.
At 10:57 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
Special springs because of the added weight of a sunroof? So, how does
one compensate for the varying weights of a driver/passenger? This is
kind of bizarre!
On 5/3/06, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > brake support joints. Rusty and I decided that the sunroof couldn't
> > add
> > more than perhaps 50 pounds to the front half of an already front-heavy
> > car, so I went ahead and installed the much cheaper non-sunroof
> > springs.
>
> I doubt the _entire_ sunroof weighs 50 pounds! (You wouldn't count
> the color panel, since that piece of metal would be there anyway.)
>
> -- Jim
>
>
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