My mechanic screwed up my car and now I need HELP! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

easy_asW123 · #1 03-20-2008, 12:39 AM

Precision Automotive in Rockaway, NJ. Avoid it like the plague, I wont get into it again but just DO NOT GO THERE. Now that that's out of the way, onward-

I brought my car to a mechanic for him to fix my heat and shimmy at high speeds. The car sat for about a month at his shop without being ran before he replaced my blower motor. When I got the car back (with the heat even more fu**ed up and the wobble still there), the battery was dead so I had it jumped and brought back to my house. Later that night, the battery light came on and all my accesories failed. I brought it back to him and he said it was the voltage regulator, he replaced it. It ran just fine (albeit the heat was STILL nonfunctional) for a couple days until the same thing happened- the battery light was very dimly lit, it got a little brighter and brighter until the accessories all died out again. The car keeps losing charge. The mechanic said he checked the rest of the car out and claims the only faulty part was the voltage regulator, which I WATCHED him replace correctly.

My question is- I have a sneaking suspicion the alternator is shot. But when an alternator dies, does it fluctuate from working, to not working? When I rev the car up, the lights also become brighter with the increase in RPM almost like it's charging- but not holding the charge because a few seconds later, it will get very very dim again and not start after I shut it down.

Another question, my heat- the mechanic went to fix my heat and did a piss poor job doing so. He replaced my blower motor and and blower fan. The fan wouldn't come on at all before he touched it, and now it only comes on an extremely low setting (lower than the normal "low" setting), and only when it wants to. Does anyone know where I can look to fix this myself, or what could cause this? Because lord knows I can't trust my mechanic to fix it.