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My Local Stealership Quotes Me $950 for Airmatic Strut Seals????!??

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Old Nov 3, 2008 | 09:45 PM
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My Local Stealership Quotes Me $950 for Airmatic Strut Seals????!??

I Called my stealership and they want $950 to replace my airmatic strut seals on the two front struts crazy or what????????They said they need 4 Hours to do the JOB. at 130 an hour.
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Old Nov 3, 2008 | 10:19 PM
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rip off my dealer took 600 from me total.

shop around eBay I saw some new struts going from $500-$700 new might as well get new struts.
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Old Nov 3, 2008 | 10:43 PM
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rip off my dealer took 600 from me total.

shop around eBay I saw some new struts going from $500-$700 new might as well get new struts.

i know they are ridiculous
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Old Nov 4, 2008 | 09:42 PM
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my dealer did it for like 400 and said all i was paying for was installation and that mercedes was covering it under goodwill policy since i am out of warranty. but now it looks different from the original strut seals that my 2004 came with. like im missing the black rubberlike filling that showed the cracks. it looks like they just scraped it off but my car isnt low in the front anymore. which i didnt mind cause now i feel like im driving a schoolbus again.
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Old Nov 5, 2008 | 08:33 AM
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my dealer did it for like 400 and said all i was paying for was installation and that mercedes was covering it under goodwill policy since i am out of warranty. but now it looks different from the original strut seals that my 2004 came with. like im missing the black rubberlike filling that showed the cracks. it looks like they just scraped it off but my car isnt low in the front anymore. which i didnt mind cause now i feel like im driving a schoolbus again.
haha a school bus so you like that feeling huh?i think thats what made me buy an s class...the floaty airplane like feel....i was originally going to buy a 745li.
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Old Nov 7, 2008 | 11:27 AM
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my dealer did it for like 400 and said all i was paying for was installation and that mercedes was covering it under goodwill policy since i am out of warranty. but now it looks different from the original strut seals that my 2004 came with. like im missing the black rubberlike filling that showed the cracks. it looks like they just scraped it off but my car isnt low in the front anymore. which i didnt mind cause now i feel like im driving a schoolbus again.
My '00-500 dosent have the black rubber like filling neither, and my buddys '00 S 430 does....alll cracked up all the way around.....does that mean my struts have been replaced?
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My '00-500 dosent have the black rubber like filling neither, and my buddys '00 S 430 does....alll cracked up all the way around.....does that mean my struts have been replaced?

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My '00-500 dosent have the black rubber like filling neither, and my buddys '00 S 430 does....alll cracked up all the way around.....does that mean my struts have been replaced?
no it doesn't you have the pre-dated strut seals, the new ones came out in 2003. If the dealer installed the seal kit on your struts that look like the pre-dated struts then they installed the older kit. They did that to mine too then later which caused massive problems and replaced the whole strut for FREE.

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