Yeah, my indy has been great to me with reasonable pricing and shows me the dead parts after the job. I've had him work on my MB's for the last 9 years and I have referred many clients to him in return. It has been been a great mutual relationship. I do brakes, rotors, ignition locks, radiators and he does the heavy stuff, suspensions and trannys. The spare doesn't have much life to it. I may try to rotate the front tires to the rears to forestall buying new tires until the fall. I could have done the work but I wasn't comfortable deciding which parts to replace in the front suspension conundrum. I'm good to go for awhile.

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