Remove and install rear shock absorber

Mark the position of the rear wheels relative to the wheel hub with paint.

This allows the balanced wheel to be refitted in the same position. Loosen the wheel bolts. The vehicle must be standing on the ground.

Raise the front of the vehicle on stands and remove the rear wheels.

• Remove the lower shock absorber mounting bolt - 1 - from the control arm - 2. Caution: Support the control arm below the coil spring with a floor jack (raise it slightly). Otherwise the weight of the control arm and wheel hub may damage the thread when the bolt is loosened.

• Lower the control arm slightly.

• Remove the upper shock absorber mounting bolt through the opening in the inner wheel arch (SW15) and remove the shock absorber.

• Hand-tighten the upper shock absorber bolt.

• Raise the control arm until the shock absorber eye lines up with the mounting hole. Hand-tighten the lower shock absorber bolt.

• Tighten the upper mounting bolt - a - (illustration T-3840) to 60 N·m.

• Fit the rear wheels so that the marks made during removal line up. Beforehand, lightly grease the centering seat of the rim on the wheel hub and the conical surface of the wheel bolts with wheel bearing grease. Do not grease or oil the threads of the wheel bolts. Install the wheels.

  Lower the vehicle and tighten the wheel bolts crosswise to 90 N·m.

• Tighten the lower shock absorber mounting bolt - b - to 90 N·m.