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Jim B. · #**502** 09-07-2007, 02:16 AM

I agree that troubleshooting electric is the scariest thing, it can run into money.
Imagine if you had one of those 1957 Ford Skyliners with the retractible hardtop, and it had an electrical fault to track down.

Those cars have over 20 MILES of wiring in them!!!! Imagine the bill.

But Enrique's reputation is that he is known to charge only for the time it took for him to fix the car. For that reason, you can relax and be happy he isn't charging you an arm and a leg because he thinks he could get away with it.

I would relax about it. If I were you I would be a lot more worrried if you had left the car at some Mercedes dealer like in Beverly Hills or Santa Monica, where the mechanics might not know the Euro cars very well, and not care about working on them - some of them flat out refuse to work on Euro/gray market cars. You really need to find a good mechanic who knows them, and understands them, and best of all likes woring on them.

I do think your car is in the good hands of such a person.

Now you have been there again, do you know how much per hour he charges for the work?

What is the per hour rate at a Mercedes dealers down there? Up to $150 ph and beyond yet or what?

Worst case scenario: Gray Market older Benz with difficult electric problem sitting at a white glove Mercedes dealer with open ended work order "Find, diagnose & repair electrical problem" -

Yikes, for something like that you'd need to go out in your back yard and peel a lot of $100 bills off that money tree you have, growing there....