Did you buy the car from a Mercedes approved garage ? If you did the missing service is down to them .
Ask for some pictures, the worry is what caused the failure and unless found, will it happen again?
No work done recently other than an new oil cooler. Has a phone call from Inchcape Mercedes Oxford who tell me Mercedes Benz will offer no good will and they want £13,743.00 to fit a full remanufactured engine. The lesson here is never buy a diesel Mercedes without FSH and never buy any Merc older than than six years old even with low mileage as they will not help at all. In fact the best lesson is don't buy a Merc full stop. Scrapyard here it goes.
I don’t agree with your assessment but I understand how you arrived at it.
As Bobcat I also don't agree. None of my Mercs (and I have 3 currently and have had 8) have given any major issues at all and none have been younger than 10 years old (and two current ones are 29 and 19 years old).
Makers don't want you to keep the car for more 8vyr apparently and fsh is advised for the warranty period after which a good indy is prob best idea. I tend to judge on condition, rather than miles I used to be OK buying high miles but great body condition but the last carceng I had to overhaul was 1300 Ford eng at about £300. How things have changed.
What's odd about an independent car dealer that does not give warranty. Three months was the offer and that has long passed, and like most, are not worth the paper they are written on. I have had the car a year since purchase. This car was built when Mercedes Benz were riddled with injector problems. This know doubt has the original injectors that were causing engine failures. https://www.carsuk.net/mercedes-fixes-diesel-injector-problems/
Never heard of a diesel injector causing a piston to melt.
It almost doesn't matter what warranty they give.
I have, a few times. Like I wrote earlier. Perhps in Finland we have plenty of diesels and they are driven a lot so such failures also occur and are reported more often.
