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Originally Posted by Mike Murrell
I drove my '91 300-SEL to a local MB dealer for parts a few years ago. It's a clean car.
As I walked to the parts dept. I passed a number of employees who looked at me like I was dragging the ebola virus into the dealership.
A year or so later I called the dealerships service dept. and inquired into having them do some trouble-shooting. I ended up talking to the shop foreman who had the same attitude I had already been exposed to the year before.
This problem doesn't exist with just Mercedes-Benz dealers. It extends to dealerships for many other car mfgs. as well. Kids coming out of auto tech schools today have no clue what a carburetor or OBD-I are. Techs who work in the indy shops are becoming far and few in between - getting old - retiring.
If you own one of these relics and plan to keep it, you had best brush up on or develop whatever skills are needed to keep it running.
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you should try that with wearing a DIY mechanic attire - the looks you get are nothing short of antichrist.
Usual repairs I can handle, upto pulling out the power unit and rebuilding it or pulling out the axle carrier and rebuilding it or wiring or HVAC. For this specific alignment job I dont own an alignment rack and expected that benz would be able to align this car. Wrong assumption I think.
speaking of other brands - I have asked a mazda parts counter for a part which they said didnt exist for my car - then I pulled up the part number from the web and got them to look it up - welllll
not only the existance was proven but they had it in stock too
