fergsc32

so I go t my strut in.. I have to say. Ive done nuts to bolts DIY stuff for 15 years. This has to be..... by far..aside from a brake job... the easiest project ever on any car period. A handful of nuts on a wheel welL,,, and 4 totel on the strut plus 3 plug and play connections... all told start to finish in the driving rain BTW.. not even an hour. stupid easy.

car is a Dream now !

AMG E Power

awesome !

HeissRod

Hardest part for me was getting enough air pressure out of it

chiromikey

Rear struts are even easier!

biggking

lol

black06c230

less than an hour for the front?? I've always heard thats more involved. Now the rears are stupid easy.

Duc1098E500

Yeah changing shock and struts are easy. I did however swap to coilovers and I'm very much happy with it.

GregMB

HA! What did I predict? It took you longer to replace your faulty keyboard, that it did to fix the strut.


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novae500

good to know when its time for me to change mine.

fergsc32

I did not need to do this. I attached the strut to the top first witht he 3 nuts s... I then used a jack to slightly compress the strut while i applied downward pressure on the rotor with my chest.. WALA ! i then loosened the top mounts again while using ther jack under the rotor to align the bottom bolt.

fergsc32

this was just one side.. the passenger side.. the most time consuming part is removing and installing the wheel well liner.. the strut itself literally comes out and goes back in in 20 minutes or less. if it wasnt a monsoon of rain.. it would have been even faster

fergsc32

PRETTY MUCH YOU WERE ON POINT..... oops damn keyboard

Sphinx144

Is there any calibration that needs to be done when replacing the airmatic struts? My front ones are sagging and plan to replace them with new Arnott units this month.

HeissRod

No, the car should self-calibrate.

Sphinx144

what tool did you use to separate the control arm?

2000UZJ

I did the front in 45 minutes without really looking at any DIY's

Sphinx144

How did you separate the joint ball from the control arm? Once you remove the bolt it doesn't slide right out.

2000UZJ

Remove the 3 bolts on the UCA. Don't pop the upper ball joint. I slide the strut out and installed the new one. I hooked up the air line and started the car once all buttoned up. It took about 2 minutes before the car realized it could raise it self back up. I did not use Star/DIS for anything.

https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...ml#post6151205

jaedee

To collapse mine, I lifted the affected corner with a floor jack and then opened and closed the drivers door with the key in my pocket. Did this a few times and each time the car would bleed that strut to try and level out the car. After about three rounds, the strut came right out. Mine was leaking, not completely failed.