reggie musson
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- CLK 2.7 Diesel
The display in the dash on my 2004 W209 CLK 2.7 D was telling me to visit the workshop due to break pad wear, although my new pads and discs had only covered 3,500 miles. Mercedes looked at the problem and found a fault in the sensor and while they had the car on the ramp gave it a health check and found both rear suspension springs were broken and two front cross strut bushes need to be replaced urgently.
The cost for all this was just under £1,000 OUCH !!!!!!!! although they didn`t charge me for inspection.
I decided to ring around to beat the price down and found a very respected garage to do the work for £400 although the springs will be pattern parts. One thing that puzzels me that the garage that is going to do the work found only very slight wear in some of the cross strut bushes but none of these needed to be replaced yet, although they found play in one track rod end so they are replacing that instead.
All this rather puts me off taking my car to Mercedes again.
Be interested in any comments you have, Reggie
The cost for all this was just under £1,000 OUCH !!!!!!!! although they didn`t charge me for inspection.
I decided to ring around to beat the price down and found a very respected garage to do the work for £400 although the springs will be pattern parts. One thing that puzzels me that the garage that is going to do the work found only very slight wear in some of the cross strut bushes but none of these needed to be replaced yet, although they found play in one track rod end so they are replacing that instead.
All this rather puts me off taking my car to Mercedes again.
Be interested in any comments you have, Reggie