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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / December 2006

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fxmalone@aol.com - 12 Dec 2006 19:40 GMT
As I come more and more in contact with MBZ repair people I find two
types...
A. The purest who can't believe you wont spend your entire income
fixing your 1992 Benz.
B. The throw some magic fluid at a problem and drive iit till it drops.
...type repair people.
The A types are like shopping at Tiffany's where the $18.00 a hour
clerk can't believe you cannot come up with megabucks for a ring....and
looks down at you.
The B types never knew that there is some satisfaction in trying to do
the best you can within your budget.

Guess that's what we get driving Mercedes....................
T.G. Lambach - 12 Dec 2006 20:09 GMT
Your money is green and they want it.

The purest will back off if YOU specify exactly what's to be done for
that puts him into an order writing role instead of Master vs Serf ala
"WE sold YOU a car?" The "alter of Mercedes" is long gone, as it should be.

My local M-B dealer offers three levels of oil changes: oil and filter
change, lubrication service and yet another variant. The differences
between them are only things like checking tire pressure, lubing the
throttle cable (car doesn't need it) etc. I buy only what's needed and
always ask for an estimate beforehand. And we get along fine.

And the sloppy approach just runs down the car - some owners don't care
but why then did they buy a Mercedes?
Tom Plunket - 20 Dec 2006 01:48 GMT
> And the sloppy approach just runs down the car - some owners don't care
> but why then did they buy a Mercedes?

I bought mine to pick up chicks.  I can fit a half-dozen of them in the
back, along with enough vegetable oil to take me up and down the coast.

It's a magnet, I tell ya: http://www.fancy.org/mb/mb-300TDsm.jpg

:)

-tom!

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