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Originally Posted by BigRed0803
$580 sounds high to me. A rebuilt starter from Mercedes is $218.00 and it doesn't take much longer than an hour to replace a starter on a 240D. That is a good chunk of money for that job.........
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It's Boone. I live there at the moment (at school). Same story wherever you go around here; small town that's in the middle of nowhere, finding a mechanic that's ever seen more than two Mercedes in his life is an accomplishment in and of itself. Everybody charges a premium b/c there's nowhere else to go. Good to know they're at least competent though if you have the cash to get out the door again.
Got a $58.00 oil change for a friend's grand cherokee one time in this town because it needed to go on a long trip and I didn't have time to take it home and do it myself... compared to the $20-30 cost of doing it yourself, that was painful.