Donnie, Thanks for the reply. I've seen your web site and photos of your shop. Believe me I've wished I could drop it off at your place. In fact, if I need my appendix out, I might just want them to do it in one of your pristine service bays!

I got the call today, and they say the car is ready and it seems to be running fine "except" when you accelerate hard, it hesitates / seems fuel starved. For now they attribute this to the fact that they were able to re-adapt the system to shifting at the lower / normal speeds. It has to do with driving the car through all of the transmission speeds at increasing throttle settings, and so far they haven't been able to get it up the higher speeds to let it "learn" the shifting at the higher throttle settings. Of course I ask myself, "what happens if on the way home she needs to get the crap out of someone's way?" Oh well, it IS a Mercedes.... it should be able to take the shot. They did say there seems to be no recurrence of the misfiring. I think they did the best that they could, and maybe we will get lucky.

I keep thinking of my "plan" when I bought her this car to replace her 260E... it was to buy her a bullet proof Honda or Toyota that used regular and only needed maintenance every 250 years!

I'm going up there in about a week... do you think I should call ahead to the dealer in either Syracuse or Binghamton, tell then the problem and have them reset everything that needs it? I'm guessing that if they schedule me, it shouldn't take too long?