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02 E220 CDI front coil replacement

  • 25-09-2013 12:32pm
    #1
    muboop1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I have been looking on youtube etc, and I am getting mixed responses. Are the coil springs on a 02 (95-02 model) E220 replaceable without any specialist equipment. If so, can anybody point me in the correct direction with a guide or advice?

    If not... anybody know what I am looking at price-wise?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    You will need a good set of spring compressors but no specialist equipment apart from that.


  • #3
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    ..........and when the man says a "good set" he means it. The coils are narrow in diameter and the spring compressors always try to slip around to meet eachother.

    These are the typical style,

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRv02AbgkZ9quc6_ib6S80ksQoyGSDrm-xOJddMw0nsywxhSJn58w

    These are far better,
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7DefIsZ6NrecE_GXCHik4xKD5GWDLRdoZZGmBu1aITPeYTGUMOg


  • #4
    whizbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,947 ✭✭✭whizbang


    First try: back off the main nut in the center of the strut tower, until its almost off. Then sit on the wing in front of the strut and bounce up and down a bit.
    If the nut rattles up and down, you dont need compressors. Just remove the nut, and the spring will loosen as you lift the car from its wheels.

    Of course if the nut won't loosen then you cant do this...


  • #5
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    whizbang wrote: »
    First try: back off the main nut in the center of the strut tower, until its almost off. Then sit on the wing in front of the strut and bounce up and down a bit.
    If the nut rattles up and down, you dont need compressors. Just remove the nut, and the spring will loosen as you lift the car from its wheels.

    Of course if the nut won't loosen then you cant do this...

    ............that method wont work on a W210 as these dont use a McPherson strut.

    272543d1258287930t-w210-caster-alignment-mountings-suspension-coil-compressed.jpg


  • #6
    burke027
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭burke027


    I'm telling you goin need a special tool for that on the mercs it goes up through the wishbone have done hundruds of them spring down the years.altough the new eclass is just as bad for breakinnt springs do then every week


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  • #7
    muboop1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭muboop1


    Hey, sorry i have been away for the last 2 weeks. Sounds like I should head to a garage for this one... just in case.

    Thanks for the advice.

    Anybody an idea of what cost I should be expecting?


  • #8
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    If the guy has the tool I mentioned above then its an hours labour max.


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