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- Joined
- Mar 5, 2006
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- Location
- Just north of Poitiers, in France
- Your Mercedes
- W124 estate
I have a 1991 230TE W124, which has been in need of some care and attention for a while. We moved to the middle of France two years ago, and rather than bring the car back to the UK to the independent garage we used in north London, I decided to look for a similar garage in France.
The north London garage lost my business when i asked them to fit lhd headlights before we left, they employed an intinerant Lithuanian teenager to install them, who broke the moulding on one, so it let in rain, and also didn't understand two other specific instructions. All for £45 an hour..... and I received a refusal when I asked them to put the problem right.
Finally, I found www.124.org, the French W124 web site.
It didn't take long to find a garage set up by a former Merc workshop manager, he does all the work himself, and the beloved 230TE is now in his hands, undergoing a complete overhaul. Even to the point where he is fixing the old retrofit DIAVIA aircon, which I had been assured was irrepairable.
Have a look at http://stcolombeauto.w124.org/.
I will post the results - this man charges 35 euros an hour!
The north London garage lost my business when i asked them to fit lhd headlights before we left, they employed an intinerant Lithuanian teenager to install them, who broke the moulding on one, so it let in rain, and also didn't understand two other specific instructions. All for £45 an hour..... and I received a refusal when I asked them to put the problem right.
Finally, I found www.124.org, the French W124 web site.
It didn't take long to find a garage set up by a former Merc workshop manager, he does all the work himself, and the beloved 230TE is now in his hands, undergoing a complete overhaul. Even to the point where he is fixing the old retrofit DIAVIA aircon, which I had been assured was irrepairable.
Have a look at http://stcolombeauto.w124.org/.
I will post the results - this man charges 35 euros an hour!
