Hey All,

I recently did a strutmasters conversion on my 01 cl500 and have driven the car about 700 miles since install. I noticed springs have settled and ride height isnt crazy high anymore. Just one thing i noticed tho is the car seems to have settled lower on the drivers side than the passengers side. Its not heavily noticable on the front but the rear i notice the car is leaning lower on the drivers side. Just wondering if anyone else has had these issues or if i just need to call strutmasters for replacements components. Not hard to swap out so not the worst situation i guess. The car does seem to be more level on different streets but even then it seems to lean alot to one side if im parked on a slight slope. I will try to add a pic later today with hand measurements.

Also something else to mentoin is i noticed the wheel will rub on hard cornering on the drivers side but wont when i hard corner and weight shifts to passenger side. Thats kind of telling me something isnt right.... Should have bought yellow speed damn...

LOL! I’m already contacting them to ask for a front shock and spring assembly replacement. Just seems like defective spring is sagging compared to the others that have settled already. I do need to replace the front ball joint on the front drivers side tho. Could that affect ride height at all? I don’t think a lower ball joint affects ride height.

Sadly the mechanic I go to refuses to cut springs. It’s ok tho I don’t mind the taller ride height as the streets in sf are pretty bad.

Here is a pic from the rear. You can see the car is leaning to the drivers side more. I can get a front pic later which shows it even more.

car only had 2 previous owners and both took care of the car except maintaining the abc fluid and filters. Pretty common I guess. I did hit a pothole on the front drivers side that was pretty bad but didn’t notice any bent arms or bad bushings. Car still drives ok but needs alignment and a ball joint. Maybe alignment and ball joint might help?

i will be sure to check that out. Yeah frame damage would be pretty apparent and when I check shock towers and the area around them there is no indication of frame or body damage. I’m gonna see if strutmasters will send me a replacement front assembly and then go from there. It’s just weird. Last time I was at the Mercedes dealer picking up a part I checked the clearance at each wheel and it was even. Then when I got home I checked again and the front left was much lower. About a fingers difference from left to right.

Get a yard stick or tape measure , and while on perfectly level ground , measure the distance from the ground to center of fender lip at all 4 corners

the fronts should be close to equal , as should the rear two

also are all four of your tires a matched set ? Mismatched tires are common when someone in replaces just one flat

Im actually getting ready to measure the difference now. Front tires are same brand and size. Rear tires are same brand and size. On factory 18’s amg rims staggered.

Strutmaster garbige turn my car to bike rolling on highway car ride make me feel tired and wanna go home

Well to update people turns out my car was not as good as I thought. Found out at some point the odometer was rolled back and coded to look legit. Not sure how it was done but it was. So I got rid of the car and got a e55. Best decision ever.

Well now I know... either way the car started showing signs of multiple failures so it was just time to move on. Short lived but glad I got the e55 now. It’s just a overall better family cruiser. The CL still a great car tho. Just didn’t meet the requirements I needed.