I need some help, took my baby to the stealership and ofcourse the report came back with

"replace left and right sway bar links"
"replace left and right guide arm bushings"
"vehicle needs tires" lol

apart from the tires, I have searched ebay for the parts but to be honest I DONT KNOW WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR

in other words I dont know what they look like...
can someone tell me if I atleast I am looking at the right parts?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Merce...Q5fAccessories

i cant find "guide arm bushings" on ebay.. anyone know a good site ?

 

Sway bar links

Suspension parts

 

Guide arm bushings sound like another way of saying control arm bushings. Try rmeuropean.com or getmercedesparts.com

If you buy just the bushings you'll have to take it somewhere that has a press. If you don't want to bother you can buy the entire control arm that comes with the bushing.

Do you have front end play/noise/vibrations? How many miles do you have? They'd probably tell me to replace mine but my car drives/tracks just fine @ 88k miles.

 

www.rmeuropean.com......and here is the link for your specific car...

http://www.rmeuropean.com/mercedes-parts.aspx#Group

enjoy and welcome to the forum......

 

try this link the one that I gave you was for drive shaft where as your catagory is suspension..........

http://www.rmeuropean.com/mercedes-parts.aspx#Category

 

I would rather buy the whole control arm? know where I can find a good one? is it a hard install?

thanks alot for your help man I know I have a lot of questions..

I am at 57K miles, as far as steering wheel play if thats what u mean yes .. I have to put some pressure on the wheels to the left cuz it pulls to the right

vibration- once I pass 75mph the car does have a MINIMAL vibration but u could still feel it .. the other day it got bad though my passenger seat looked like it was having a sezeiure..

88k and u track it? damn I wish mine was too ur lucky shes still running like a queen

 

THANKS javvy!

dude am so glad I joined this forum!

 

like wise........97w202....u r welcome.........

 

wow so many kinds tho...

report only said left and right guide arm bushing or control arm...
just called the dealer and they confirmed it is only the front.. but now...

my problem... there are left fron lower and upper.. right fron lower and upper...

FAWKKK man ...

 

Oh wait.. no I don't track my C230. I meant it doesn't push/pull or vibrate at any speed up to and exceeding triple digits. It runs and drives beautifully - just as much now as it did at 25k miles.

 

I believe it is the lower ones that are often the problems, but I am not sure. It couldn't hurt to replace both sides upper and lower especially if your car is having drivability issues.

 

would this be the sway bar links they were talking about?
http://www.rmeuropean.com/Part-Numbe..._2CB14693.aspx


I work at toyota and have a friend in the body shop who will be doing the work on my car (we service mercedes here as well)

if i buy those then u said he needs a press machine??

 

no if you buy the whole link you dont need to press , just unbolt and remove old and pop in the new one, just torque it ot the correct spec............

but if you go cheap and say just wann buy the end ribber links then you will need to press them in......