Well, my 99 ML320 with 67K miles can be added to the list of casualties having fallen victim to the Mercedes dark world. Just yesterday the harmonic balancer failed and found that it cut into the front engine cover as well as the oil pan cover.

Mercedes Benz of Cincinnati gave me a quote of $3700 to repair/replace the parts. Seems a little steep to me after reading prices that others have reported back as low as $2200 for the same repair from an authorized facility.

Can anyone give me a breakdown of each parts price and mercedes code for labor hours involved for each of the parts. I feel like I 'm getting screwed.

Please feel free to leave your input on this. I want to be near the beginning of the line on the day we get a class action suite against these tight bastards. I keep telling my self that simple little $80 part could have fixed this all if it were replaced ahead of time but now I have an undrivable car and and i'll probably be digging really deep into the 'ole pocketbook for money after paying off this one.....