A buddy of mine owns a 600 S Class. He has bought cars from the same dealership for quite a long time. His A/C went out so he went by to have them take a quick look. They said it would cost $3500.00 to fix it. He took off with plans on bringing it in the next week. He told someone at work about it, they went down and changed a blown fuse and it worked fine. This gentleman then went to the service manager to tell him what had happened and asked what in fact would have taken place at the dealership. Being honest he said we would have changed all the parts that would have been in the $3500 estimate, found that didn't solve the problem and then find the problem with the fuse. He then asked and what would you charge me for all this being that the parts didn't need to be changed...the service manager said, $3500 plus the time spent to find the fuse problem and the cost of the fuse.

Scary world out there.

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1980 300TD-T (82 Turbo and Trans) 159,000 Miles "Jackie-O"
1983 300SD 272,000 Miles "Aristotle"
1987 Jeep Wagoneer Limited - keeps the MB's off the ice and out of the snow
1994 BMW 530it