Garista
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- Joined
- Apr 29, 2018
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- Location
- France
- Your Mercedes
- 2001 ML 270 CDI. 1991 R129 300 SL
Hello, I'm new here but have read a lot on this subject. I have had this ML for about six months now, it is very clean and did run extremely well and everything works, but has quite high kilometers (340k). The car has a near complete service history by MB.
I'm in rural France, and called a nearby garage when the car stopped when the EPC light came on. We had to wait a day and when the bloke arrived he came with another chap in a van, but my ML started and ran fine so he took it to his garage to inspect for repair. After this we got a call saying it was number 4 injector, and the cost would be about 400E, so we said yep do the job. A day later we got another call saying "the injector support bolt is broken" and he could not now repair the car because it would need the engine removed and it would cost more than the car was worth. I was not happy, I asked the nearest Mercedes dealer if they would do it and they also said no and were very unhelpful. As this is all in French and my French is not so great it is all more difficult.
I suppose I just need some confirmation that to do the repair properly would require the engine removed, because of the need for cylinder head repair? Isn't it possible that the bolt could be removed and the threads still be ok? - Well, I do know this repair can be done with Time Serts but why do they not know this or suggest it?
I'm in rural France, and called a nearby garage when the car stopped when the EPC light came on. We had to wait a day and when the bloke arrived he came with another chap in a van, but my ML started and ran fine so he took it to his garage to inspect for repair. After this we got a call saying it was number 4 injector, and the cost would be about 400E, so we said yep do the job. A day later we got another call saying "the injector support bolt is broken" and he could not now repair the car because it would need the engine removed and it would cost more than the car was worth. I was not happy, I asked the nearest Mercedes dealer if they would do it and they also said no and were very unhelpful. As this is all in French and my French is not so great it is all more difficult.
I suppose I just need some confirmation that to do the repair properly would require the engine removed, because of the need for cylinder head repair? Isn't it possible that the bolt could be removed and the threads still be ok? - Well, I do know this repair can be done with Time Serts but why do they not know this or suggest it?