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Originally Posted by triguy84  I have a similar problem.
My 240Ds rear half axles are going bad. From a post either here or at mercedesshop.com, someone pointed out the the half axles form a wear pattern from primary forward motion. If you drive in reverse for a short distance, some "resets" and you can get a few more miles before the noise reappears. SO I tried it, it worked for me.
I know the half axles need to be replaced, but this gives me a few months or more to do some other more pressing maintenance - oil cooler lines, aux cooling fan. |
triguy84, when in reverse, I hear the noise 95% of the time, but of course since its in slower speeds, its just a clank here and there, but definately clanks, lol, and it doesn't seem to help my forward motion, I wont hear anything for a while, then I'll hit a bump or whatever and hear it all over again, good luck on the oil cooler lines, I did my aux fan a while back, and it was cinch.