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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Sounds about right to me. Oil change + spark plugs + mixture adjust is easily $600 in materials and labor at a shop. Heck just the materials for all of that is probably close to $125, fuel filter is not exactly easy to replace. Even around here the shops are around $105 an hour.
$950 is cheap for a series of seal replacements like that, thats a ton of labor. Anyone who has done those things on the transmission knows its a pain and time consuming to do properly.
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Actually, even before I read the other posts in this thread, I thought the same thing. I thought "For Cali, at a presumably competent shop, that actually sounds like a good rate". Have you done a fuel filter on a car before? If you don't have to drop the tank you're lucky (most MBs, at least the older ones like the w126, you don't). But that doesn't make it easy with old fuel lines that probably fall apart on removal of the filter and the shot mounts like Edward pointed out. It's a fair rate, not the best, but a fair rate. But the trans - I think that was a steal. You need to do a fair amount of work to replace the front seal on the trans, considering last I checked you have to remove it from the engine. I think most of the people saying that the OP was ripped off have not used a mechanic in quite some time for larger repairs. Car work is EXPENSIVE. I haven't had anyone touch my vehicles in quite some time for this reason.