Mercedes w140 upper control arm change & fail: stripped Allen key bolt how to fix & set pitch s500

So many of you have run into issues with the upper control arms. Well today I ran into a few of them myself. Hopefully this and the discussion in comments helps us all.

Mercedes w140 upper control arm change & fail: stripped Allen key bolt how to fix & set pitch s500

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