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Post your " WINNING STORY"
Has anyone in here actually went to a mechanic, gotten a huge price quote for a fix,went home frustrated and angry,and ended up fixing the problem yourself for less than half of what the mechanic wanted to charge you??
Heres one of my many winning stories.
I was pulling into traffic one day and my 300e basically had no acceleration. My transmission would not kickdown. I was frustrated because the trans was repaired by the dealer and the warranty had just expired on the rebuild. I took it to a Mercedes certified trans shop and the mechanic told me that"The car is flaring,the car holds gears too long,it shifts too hard and there is no passing gear", total price for a fix $700. I felt angry and shocked. I went home in disbelief. Well, when I was getting out of my car, I saw a black piece of plastic on the drivers mat. I tracked it down and it was a piece of my kickdown switch! I went to the parts shop and bought myself a new kickdown switch, $14 bucks. I saved a ton of money that day,and I felt so relieved.I fixed the hard shifting with a little adjustment of the Bowden Cable.
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