Well, for starters you are paying the hourly rate $80 per hour for my indy to tear it down. Should he change out the parts and put it all together again, you're paying hourly. He's quoting me $3000 to get a rebuilt trans from Mercedes and installing it with a one year warranty and an extra $1000 with the toque converter. He says that the torque converter typically doesn't go bad so I'm going for the $3000 job. 6 months ago, the trans was missing gears and not shift up from 2nd to 3rd and 4th. He changed the filter and fluid and it didn't improve. Finally the trans went into limp mode 2nd gear so I brought it in to do the trans job. I have a rip-off Penn Warranty that wanted him to tear it down and replace the worn parts but he refused saying that it would cost me more that way. That is Penn Warranty's way of ripping you off because you would then have to pay for the tear down and the diagnosis. Then I read on the internet how Penn Warranty was ripping off people with trans malfunctions by forcing them to pay for the tear down diagnosis and then locating a cheap junk yard trans with no warranty to swap in. So I went with my trusty indy who has been doing my MB work for 6 years and 5 Mercedes,

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