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New Accumulators Purchase

Started by Neil4speed, 13 September 2022, 10:45 PM

Neil4speed

Hey all! Looking forward to doing my reseal of struts and I figure I may as well do my accumulators while I am there as they would be far past the lifespan.

I did start with the classic center and they won't send them to me in Canada as it is "hazardous"... Any thoughts on where you would look to get some if you were in the market?

Cheers and thank you all with the support so far.

Randys01

Jeez..MBCC..... they're getting precious aren't they?! They could send then by road if airfreight is farrrr to risky. .
I'm sure you wouldn't mind waiting a week.
Alterntively what about old mate Kent at Mercedes Source just south of the border?

Good luck with the struts. I'm about to embark on mine having just done the spheres but......it was the spheres that were fritzed; and now that they are done, it revealed the front struts are still 90 per.cent and the rears 99pc.!

daantjie

For front accumulators try:

www.autopartsway.ca

They show the front ones in stock.  You need 3x as you will also change out the main accumulator which is the same as the 2x front ones (red dot)

The rear ones are much harder to find unfortunately.  2x green dot.
Daniel
1977 450 SEL 6.9 - Astralsilber

nathan

Ask the CC again, they said the same thing to us and we said that sounds like codswallop.  They sent them after our second enquiry, to Australia.  I imagine autohaus and pelican parts would have them.  Historically, a figure around 7 years is put forward as an average estimate for their replacement.
1979 116 6.9 #6436
2018 213 e63
2011 212 e63
2011 463 g55
2007 211 e500 wagen
1995 124 e320 cabriolet
1983 460 300gd
1981 123 280te

UTn_boy

That makes no sense.....the accumulators were made in Europe or some other overseas company, and then shipped by air and/or ground to the classic center, yet they won't ship them to Canada? 

If need be, ship them to one of us here in the U.S., and we'll then ship them to you!  I'll happily volunteer for that, as well. 
1966 250se coupe`,black/dark green leather
1970 600 midnight blue/parchment leather
1971 300sel 6.3,papyrus white/dark red leather
1975 450se, pine green metallic/green leather
1973 300sel 4.5,silver blue metallic/blue leather
1979 450sel 516 red/bamboo

Neil4speed

Thank you crew for all of the sage advice really appreciated. Utn_Boy, thanks for the kind offer to be my mail forwarding for these obscure things. Very considerate.

Got them from Autopartsway + E-bay, some Febis...

The shipping policy is a bit weird, I got an e-mail from CC saying that they were having some issues with Fedex? Go figure...