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CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 12/10/2006 10:12:20 PM    davecut   Posts: 9 Joined: 12/1/2006 Status: offline I have a 6 year old CLK which I bought from John R Weir in Aberdeen, Scotland. It has been regularly serviced there. I put it in for service and MOT a couple of weeks ago. I was horrified when I was told that the cost would be about £2000. The main item was the car needing a new rear drive shaft at a cost of about £1000. I believe this to be totally unacceptable for a 6 year old Mercedes with 65,000 miles on the clock. Neither John R Weir in Aberdeen or Mercedes are being helpful about this. I expect Mercedes to pay the full cost of the rear drive shaft repair and to pay towards some of the other repairs as well. I believe that there must be either a design fault or a manufacturing fault with the rear shaft for such an early failure to occur. This car has needed an excessive amount of repair work since it was purchased which I assume can be put down to the ongoing Mercedes quality problems. Has anyone else had problems with such an early failure of a rear drive shaft? Thanks. Post #: 1

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/19/2007 10:13:45 AM    davecut   Posts: 9 Joined: 12/1/2006 Status: offline You might all be interested to know that this is ongoing. Apparently a failure of a rear drive shaft after 60,000 miles is considered acceptable by Mercedes. They have offered £200 as a "goodwill" gesture which means they expect me to fork out the £800, so there's not much goodwill there! John R Weir are making the problems worse with incorrect invoices. (in reply to davecut) Post #: 2

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/19/2007 5:12:57 PM    BlueSilver   Posts: 899 Joined: 2/24/2006 Status: offline Honestly, if £2000 is a problem, it might not be the right car for you. Blue (in reply to davecut) Post #: 3

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/19/2007 5:14:09 PM    BlueSilver   Posts: 899 Joined: 2/24/2006 Status: offline Did you buy it new? Is it still under warranty? Blue (in reply to BlueSilver) Post #: 4

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/20/2007 7:12:21 PM    johncrompton   Posts: 12 Joined: 4/20/2007 Status: offline Blue silver - £2000 is alot  to spend on a car thats only done this mileage & is a MB - I cant believ you would post a reply telling someone that their car may not be for them if they are concerned about a £2k bill - you sound like a big fat idiot to me! (in reply to BlueSilver) Post #: 5

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/20/2007 8:51:49 PM    BlueSilver   Posts: 899 Joined: 2/24/2006 Status: offline Johncrompton,   NO, £2000 is almost nothing compared to some recent repairs here in  the US. A set of tires here costs more than £2000, or approximately $1000US. What happens when the tires need replacing? Blue (in reply to johncrompton) Post #: 6

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/20/2007 9:13:05 PM    BlueSilver   Posts: 899 Joined: 2/24/2006 Status: offline Or a new tranny, for example. Blue (in reply to BlueSilver) Post #: 7

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/21/2007 5:21:19 AM    johncrompton   Posts: 12 Joined: 4/20/2007 Status: offline Check the US dollar to UK pound conversion Blue, £2000 pounds = £4000 dollars not the other way around. (in reply to BlueSilver) Post #: 8

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/21/2007 6:51:09 AM    davecut   Posts: 9 Joined: 12/1/2006 Status: offline Guys, Just to clarify the situation. I bought the car new but's it's not under warrenty now. On the service after 6 years I was faced with a bill for £2000 (4000 US dollars) for a service and MOT which is clearly excessive. Of the £2000, £1000 was to replace the rear drive shaft. Mercedes says a failure like that is acceptable, I believe that is totally unacceptable and that Mercedes should pay the full £1000 repair cost. Mercedes are being extremely unhelpful about the whole thing. I believe that the rear drive shaft but have been faulty when it was supplied or not fit for purpose. Thanks for all your interest. (in reply to johncrompton) Post #: 9

RE: CLK 200 Rear Drive Shaft - 4/21/2007 9:05:55 AM    BlueSilver   Posts: 899 Joined: 2/24/2006 Status: offline ouch, you're right about the currency. Gulp. I completely withdraw my arguement. Blue. (in reply to davecut) Post #: 10

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