05-26-2024, 12:32 PM
(05-26-2024, 09:31 AM)VulcanWerks Wrote: Easily 100k.Just about everything except for the engines. They are great up until about 60k miles. Then they turn to shit. And everything costs at least 4 times what it would on an American made car. Hell, I even had a heater go out in the DEF tank with only 26k miles on it. It was $4k just to replace the heater. Not the whole DEF tank, just the heater. It doesn’t help that Mercedes makes it so everything Has to be programmed by a Mercedes computer. That same vehicle had the transmission start slipping at only 40k miles.
My father’s was a heck of an investment given he picked it up for ~5k in 2000!
I didn’t know these were so problematic. What are the primary issues you’ve had with them?
Another example, if you want a spare key, they key costs $145. Then you have to pay Mercedes $225 to program it. It takes them one minute to program it, but they charge a full hour shop rate - BASTARDS!
They aren’t that expensive to purchase new. Mercedes makes all their money off of them through maintenance.