my dealer experiences have been completely the opposite. We had a 560sel, took it to the dealer for a small tranny fluid leak, and were told it needed a new tranny.

We took it to our independent, my current mechanic, and it turned out to be a leaking hose, and thats all.

The dealership wanted in excess of $3k to replace the tranny, my independednt was less than $300 and that included doing a service tot he car on top of fixing the hose.

I'll bet if I took my car to any local dealers here, I would be told it needed several thousand dollars of work, whereas my independent will tell me the dealership is full of it, because all my car needs is what I have been doing to it, TLC, consistent oil changes every 3k miles, and regular maintenace.

Alon

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