Originally Posted by BrushRoadster!

Does anyone have the Mercedes part numbers for the Front Sway Bar Rubber bushings?
I just got the FCP Euro lower A-arm kit, and it has 2 boxes of sway bar bushings, but they both are the small diameter for the end of the sway bar, where it mounts on the lower a-arm. This has to be disconnected to change the lower A-arm, so I thought it would be smart to change both bushings on each side. The problem is you get 4 each of the bushing in 2 boxes, but they all are for the outer sway bar ends. (18 mm center hole) Since they included 4 bushings, when I opened the package, I figured one for each end of the sway bar, and two for the middle of the sway bar. I was only doing ONE A-Arm at a time, and figured the other end would keep the sway bar in alignment. It pretty much DID, so it would have been both a good idea, and easy to do, before putting the new Lower A-Arm in position. However, I quickly discovered I had 4 rubber bushing that would only fit the outer ends of the sway bars. The INNER sway bar bushings are 25 mm center hole.
My thought was as follows:

A. They MEANT to include both the end and center bushings for the front sway bar, but someone just grabbed 2 boxes of the outer bushings, and tossed them in the box.

B. They only were supposed to supply the outer bushings, so I wasn't supposed to actually have the second box, in other words, it was just a duplicate. But this makes no sense, as doing an A-Arm change is the IDEAL time to just slide these off, and put new ones on. It only takes a couple minutes to do both inner and outer bushings on each end.

Unfortunately, I did not have the correct inner bushings, so just put everything back together with new bushing on the ends of the sway bar, and the old bushings on the center. I REALLY hated to do this, because going back to change the inner bushings, is going to be MAJOR task, once the front suspension is reassembled. Doing it now is just a 3 minute job. Doing it after the suspension is reassembled, is likely to be a really grueling 6 hours of trying to keep everything in alignment. If you do one end at a time, when you are doing the A-Arms, then the other side keeps everything lined up, and you just slide each bushing off, and the new on to it's proper location.

I emailed FCP, giving them the Chrysler IPC number for both the inner and outer bushings on the front sway rod, but they said they cannot cross-reference the Chrysler P.N. to anything from Mercedes Benz.

So now I am stuck, since I HAVE the Chrysler 2004 Crossfire IPC printed out and in a binder, but I have NO IPC data for Mercedes Benz cars at all.

So does ANYONE have the front sway bar bushing part number callouts from the Mercedes Benx SLK 320, so I can get a Mercedes number, and see about solving this problem for the future? I will provide the information to FCP-Euro, so they can correct their kits if they are including 2 sets of the bushings, one being correct, and one being wrong, or if they are NOT going to supply the inner bushings, they can leave that box out when they ship these bushings. But I would rather they actually put 1 box of each of the 2 correct bushings, so they can quickly be changed on a Lower A-Arm replacement.

Thanks very much!