Worth knowing before you buy
- BE CAREFUL HERE. The rubber bellows on an air strut ages whether the car is driven or not, so a used strut off a donor car of the same age has a bag with the same life left in it — which may be very little. A new or remanufactured strut is frequently the better value despite the price.
- A used compressor is a worse bet still. They fail from running constantly against a leak, and a donor car's compressor has usually done exactly that.
- Confirm the car is AIRMATIC and not steel or ABC before buying anything. The site's own glossary calls this the single most common mis-order on a Mercedes.
- Whatever you fit, find the leak first. A new or used strut on an unfixed system takes the compressor with it.
- If you do buy used, ask for photographs of the BELLOWS FOLDS with the strut extended. That is where the cracks are.
What we need to quote it. The chassis number, confirmation the car is AIRMATIC, and which corner. The chassis number settles the generation, the body and usually the engine in seventeen characters — it is on your mulkiya. A photograph of the old part helps where there is more than one version.
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