PreRaphaelite
Ideal_Rock
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- Feb 2, 2015
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Sticking my oar in again, after a convo with my partner, who agreed with @OoohShiny about the lack of carburetor and had two questions... and one piece of advice.
Q) Is the auto shop that your car is at now, the same shop that did your most recent oil change? If they did a poor job they might realise they accidentally destroyed the engine and need to "CYA" with this diagnosis. Happens from time to time and most places do get away with it when they try it. This is not about dishonest mechanics - it's about dishonest service writers or their managers.
Q) Have you driven through any deep water in the last 3 months? Has anyone else borrowed the car that might have done it and not told you?
and advice:
Have it towed to another shop, preferably one who specialises in Mercedes, for a second opinion right away. Pay whatever small fee the first shop charges and move on. Don't tell the first shop where you're towing it, and don't give details of the first diagnosis to the second shop, just tell them the symptoms. You want an unbiased second opinion. If the second diagnosis matches the first, your car will be worth just as much scrap value at the second place as it was at the first place. If the diagnosis doesn't match.... well, then you'll know not to go back to the first shop with any other cars in the future.
And again, wishing you zero headaches and a happy resolution.
Q) Is the auto shop that your car is at now, the same shop that did your most recent oil change? If they did a poor job they might realise they accidentally destroyed the engine and need to "CYA" with this diagnosis. Happens from time to time and most places do get away with it when they try it. This is not about dishonest mechanics - it's about dishonest service writers or their managers.
Q) Have you driven through any deep water in the last 3 months? Has anyone else borrowed the car that might have done it and not told you?
and advice:
Have it towed to another shop, preferably one who specialises in Mercedes, for a second opinion right away. Pay whatever small fee the first shop charges and move on. Don't tell the first shop where you're towing it, and don't give details of the first diagnosis to the second shop, just tell them the symptoms. You want an unbiased second opinion. If the second diagnosis matches the first, your car will be worth just as much scrap value at the second place as it was at the first place. If the diagnosis doesn't match.... well, then you'll know not to go back to the first shop with any other cars in the future.
And again, wishing you zero headaches and a happy resolution.