I had the estimate done today and it's about $4000 parts & labor to repair both sides. The parts are very expensive and they make up half of the cost. After that I left a message for the service manager at the dealer and I told him that I still want MB to pay for all of this, as it's a manufacturing defect and this kind of failure is not something anyone would expect on a 9 year old Mercedes. Besides I've counted at least 3 people on this board who've had this problem fixed for free so I don't know why I'm not being fully covered (I said this to the advisor too).

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL