'An Even More Harsher Ride'
12-20-2015, 01:40 AM
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'An Even More Harsher Ride'
'Seasons Greetings, M-B'ers.'
Yup. Harsh ride in the rear of the '96 S500 Coupe'. Bought it about 10 years ago with 37,000 miles on it. Nearly pristine condition. A Palm Springs Golf Cart. A Seattle attorney just traded it in and wrote a check for $285,000.00 for a new Bentley. Still a very nice looking modern car. Anyway, I thought it needed rear shocks from the day we bought it. Turned out it was one or two spheres. New ones didn't do dog doo-doo.. 70,000 miles later it still needs rear shocks. Any ideas would be most appreciated.
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Yup. Harsh ride in the rear of the '96 S500 Coupe'. Bought it about 10 years ago with 37,000 miles on it. Nearly pristine condition. A Palm Springs Golf Cart. A Seattle attorney just traded it in and wrote a check for $285,000.00 for a new Bentley. Still a very nice looking modern car. Anyway, I thought it needed rear shocks from the day we bought it. Turned out it was one or two spheres. New ones didn't do dog doo-doo.. 70,000 miles later it still needs rear shocks. Any ideas would be most appreciated.
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Last edited by Roadslayer; 12-20-2015 at 11:15 PM.
12-21-2015, 05:38 AM
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The suspension is the same on my '97 S500, the rear suspension remained the same for the life of the W140. Here is another link discussing the self-leveling struts on the S500 and S600.
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w140...ts-normal.html
Good luck!!
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w140...ts-normal.html
Good luck!!
