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BENZ-LGB · #8 07-03-2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by rchase

heh heh,

The ones in denial are fun. Stuff randomly falling off their cars and happy as ever even when paying the exhorbatant repair bills. I had a 1998 S70 and it was a not so great car. In retrospect it was not as bad as it seemed due to the poor service I got at the next car maker I bought from.

Having a good and trusted mechanic is very important.

I owned a 1991 420SEL that I really loved to drive. My former mechanic basically scared me into selling it by suggesting so many repairs.

The person that I sold it to is happy as punch with it. Other than a rebuilt tranny ($1,500.00) she has not done anything major to the car. The car had over 250k when I sold it to her.

Just for kicks I once asked my new mechanic (Enrique of Mr. M.B. Motors) about all the repairs that the former mechanic had suggested and the "symptoms" the car had exhibited. W/o even batting an eye Enrique told me all that he would have done to have the car running at tip-top shape....the bill would have been a fraction of the cost that the other mechanic had "suggested."

Had Enrique been my mechanic back then, I would still be driving my gorgeous, deep midnight blue 1991 420SEL. sighhhhhhhhhhh