Thats nothing. Had a 02 ML320 in yesterday late in the day for the power steering hose recall. 97,000 miles overdue on the service counter. everything leaked, rattled and was broken. I wouldnt have had enough space on the paper to write up everything it needed.

but hey, its now got a brand new lower power steering hose on it! nevermind the leaking steering rack...

Ohlord! What the hell is wrong with people? 97,000 miles over due? That car is done I think. I told my cousin about what happines when you let things go on a car and of course she thought I was insulting her intelligence. HA HA What Intelligence?:D

Almost the same thing happened to my employers ML when I brought it in two weeks ago to get said hose fixed. You would think that with all the previous services and "Inspections" that someone would have seen a non-recall hose still in the car after 50,000 miles.

Thus proving my point from earlier, your not actually watching them work on your car so who knows if they even bother to check anything.

MTI has a made a great point about 50,000 1936 miles are different than 2009 miles.

All things are relative. If you look at the service secdule for a 1929 Model A Ford the 1936 Mercedes services schedule looks positively drawn out.

not 97,000 miles since it last oil change, but since the last time it had seen a service. when you get cars like that its mostly a waste of time to write it up and get prices for parts since 9/10 times it all gets declined anyways.

The winner here though was an 03 ML I had for oil consumption. 70-some thousand miles on it. I checked the history in the engine module of when the oil changes were done and it looked like this:

10,000mi
21,000mi
33,000mi
47,000mi
and thats it... no oil changes since the car went out of warranty! And she wondered why MB wouldnt help pay for new rings...

First time (since we owned it) my Benz door hinges needed to be lubed was last winter. 20 years.

Alwyas a good reminder . . . regular maintenance can also result in the discovery of problems that, if caught early, will be easier, lest costly and likely won't involve a tow truck during a storm on the wrong side of town where there's no cell service . . .

The same thing applies to going to the dentist regularly, annual physical . . .

...and I DO believe they check all of those items on the A and B intervals...how else do I get those calls from my dealer rep about taking care of "this" and "that"?

Interesting how many things need attention on a vehicle with under 20K miles? Needless to say, they are all "wear" items...:rolleyes:

Get a BMW than, its all covered!:P:D

Depends on the "service". I do most if not all of the work on my cars anyway, but I'll go way above service intervals depending on the specifics. I'm still on the original timing belt at ~3.5x the original service interval, but if I had a honda w/ an interference engine then I'd be on that every year or whatever, although even then that depends on the specifics. My pickup has an interference engine but I'm not super worried about going beyond the service interval because it also has a double row timing chain instead of a single timing belt. Fluids I try to be pretty religious with, but I've done some pretty stupid stuff like not changing the coolant at the proper interval, which cost me a water pump and a lot of time.