Ok, so my sister has a 2003 ML 320. and she is about to give up on it and settle for *gasp* a chevy or some other cheeper car. Ever since she graduated college she has driven nothing but BMW's but when she met her husband, he wanted her driving Mercedes. So she has a couple c230's and i think an e320, but in 2003 she got her ML and its only 4 years old, and a week or so ago, the power steering hose broke. Since she is an executive of a rather large company and had a big meeting to go to, she had no choice but to drive her ML to the meeting (about 35 miles away) with NO POWER STEERING! the MB tech at the steelership told her that this is commen with the ML's and the MB should have a recall on this. Well today im at work and she calls me. (she is also my head boss at my company ) when i answered the phone, the first words that came outa her mouth were " so much for german engineering". and then informed me that the ML has once agian broke down. Its making this high pitch whinning noise when its running. My brother in law drove it to the grochery store (since my sister had his trail blazer) and he said it drove thier and back ok but the noise was even worse.even though the store is like litterly a block away. Long story short the VIce president of the whole company is comming tomorrow, my brother in law is a lawyer in chicago and needs his car, so hopefully the MB dealer is open tomorrow since its martin luther kings B-day. she's gonna try and get it over thier (about a 15 mile drive) and hopefully it will be open. she even left them a voice mail today hopeing she could be the first in line or what have you. Also this ML eats tail and side blinker lights like no other.

thier have been alot of other problems with it. My sister is thinking maybe its time to switch back to BMW or just get a cheep car like a chevy or a honda or somthing. I feel bad for her because i love Mercedes-benz, and would not trade mine for anything(k, well maybe the 300D). but i will hopefully always be an MB driver.

any suggestions. anyone else have lots of problems with their ML 320's? think she should trade it in before she looses even more value on it??/

thanks for the replie(s)

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