COUPE FREAK
Active Member
new m.b. indie opened up round the corner from me a few week's ago, so instead of driving over to preston for ian to change the g/box atf thought i'd let them do it, quoted £120 for atf, filter and gasket, inc labour, the car's done 67,000, 1993 220ce, up change's seemed to me to be a bit jerky, read that changing the atf should smooth g/changes out,, picked the car up, seemed to me to be no different, still jerky, had a look underneath and it looks to me like all they've done is drain the sump, not the torque converter, look's like the original gasket still on and he's just tried to wipe the sump down with a rag to make it look like he's taken it off, where a couple of pipe's connect to the g/box he could'nt wipe and there's still the road grime on the sump behind them, going to go back and have a word with them but it'll probably just turn into a "i've changed everythig" (them) "no you have'nt" (me),, and on and on, etc, just wondering if there's any other way to confirm they've done the full atf change,etc, or a diplomatic way to approach the situation, apart from the money it's the thought of someone having a little chuckle thinking they've pulled a fast one on me that's annoying,, next time i'm going to do it myself, then i know it's been done right,,
which is about £22 for 5 litres. You dont need the high cost synthetics of the later transmissions that MB use. 
They tend to only stock the latest ATF fluids since that's what the bulk of their customers cars require 
so thats what they offer you!
