Sp!ke
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My nearside rear damper gave up the ghost completely a couple of weeks ago in the cold spell.
The offside damper is still fine and is operating normally, despite it being nearly 20 years old.
While I was looking around for prices, I stumbled across a single damper on Ebay, a new original boxed Mercedes part - with the right part number for a mere £30.
This got me thinking about whether I could get away with fitting just the one damper instead of doing the pair (which would normally be my advice).
To cut a long story short, I thought the Ebay damper was too good a price to ignore so I bought it and fitted in on Saturday (took about half an hour to do) and the car is now handling how it should once again. So I'm pretty chuffed with such a cheap fix.
I did notice that Mercedes sell dampers separately and wondered if it was indeed common practice to replace only the defective damper rather than as pairs?
anyone?
The offside damper is still fine and is operating normally, despite it being nearly 20 years old.
While I was looking around for prices, I stumbled across a single damper on Ebay, a new original boxed Mercedes part - with the right part number for a mere £30.
This got me thinking about whether I could get away with fitting just the one damper instead of doing the pair (which would normally be my advice).
To cut a long story short, I thought the Ebay damper was too good a price to ignore so I bought it and fitted in on Saturday (took about half an hour to do) and the car is now handling how it should once again. So I'm pretty chuffed with such a cheap fix.
I did notice that Mercedes sell dampers separately and wondered if it was indeed common practice to replace only the defective damper rather than as pairs?
anyone?