Mercedes has a very specific maintenance schedule, and there are a number of inspections at the 15K maintenance intervals. The schedule with all the inspections is published in the maintenance/warranty booklet that is part of the owner's documentation package, and the detailed maintenance procedures are in the maintenance manual.

To these tasks I add certain other tasks that experience with these cars indicates should be accomplished - like motor mount inspection.

It's very easy to take the factory maintenance schedule and use a word processing or spread sheet program to make your own maintenance sheet that creates a permanent record that the maintenance was accomplished and whaterver repairs were done as a result of the inspection. I keep these sheets along with all other service documentation - warranty and commercial repairs orders, parts purchase receipts, etc. in a file folder with a two pin fastener at the top and punch two suitable holes at the top of all the paper. This yields a chronological history of everything that's ever been done to my car that is easy to audit by thumbing through the file.

All cars have a specfic maintenance schedule that calls for certain inspections or parts replacement that goes beyond the usual fluid and filter changes, plus given the cumulative experience of owners we learn to add additional inspections beyond even what OEM recommends. If you do all the inspections at the presribed intervals, the odds of a breakdown or emergency are vastly reduced.

Duke