Allright I guess I have no choice but to take the car back to the dealer once again ! It just came back from the shop for A/C repair with a bill of 1400 last week !
At this point I need to have the 6 vacuum actuators replaced since the air flow is not working properly. The dealer quoted me 9 hours of labor and parts on top of it.
I'd like to know your opinion whether or not that sounds right ?
more over while the shop is doing this, would it be wise for me to ask them to have the evaporator replaced as well .. ?
if so how much more labor will that be and roughly how much am i looking at for the evaporator and the 6 vacuum switches ?
thanks a bunch.
it's for the 87 260E.

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Let me add, that the sunroof stopped working during summer as well which I didn't bother with since I was quoted $1000 just in labor charges.

So with the three huge problems with the car at the moment, do you guys think it's even wise to invest more in the car or should I just .... dare I say it ?

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I do not know what your sunroof problem is but. I would take a look at your sunroof yourself. A few months ago while I was having the timing chain changed, I asked the mecanic to look at the sunroof since it was not operating that well. When I picked up the car the mecanic told me that to fix the sunroof he was going to need 2-3 full days because of the major labor involved. If I recall correctly, he said the cable needed to be changed and so forth.

Now mind you, I am in Central America but I took my car to one of the best places for mercedes here in Guatemala. The mecanic is like 50 yers old and has worked on mercedes since he was 16!

Anyway, I did not believe him on the sunroof so I got a hold of some sunroof files and attacked it myself. (look at thread Almost fixed sunroof!! ). note. I still have one picture to post that shows the part that was broken. Well, what I found was a fix. the only draw back is that the part is not currently available here in Guatemala. But, in the meantime the sunroof now works great. The only thing is that when I use the flip up position, the headliner on the passenger side does not go all the way up do the part that I need to get. But otherwise it opens and closes quickly and quietly.

That is my $0.02 worth. Check the sunroof yourself. maybe it could be something easy. I have also read on other threads in refeerence to the sunroof that when DIY'ers have dome the same, they have found that the sunroof was not totally shot but a realitively easy repair.

Iggy

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