The Wife hit a concrete crosswalk abutment at around 10-15 mph with the C350 4matic today. Needs a wheel reface, inner fender shield, new Conti. tire and most likely a tie rod end and 4 wheel alignment. Body is OK.
Care to guess how much A BENZ dealer will charge for this work?
Seems like (in order) 250+250+385+275+125 and a 85$ fee for the estimate. $1370-ish is my guess. I should get a call today.
What say you?

CB

Much more. My wife was in an accident with an A4. No air bag deployed and was drive-able. Front end damage was $30,000 and 3 months in the shop.

That $85. Fee is BS. If your going to have the car repaired at this shop I wouldn’t pay it.
I’m going to agree with your estimate, probably more...

My friend, all I can suggest is brace for impact...

I hope you don't have a heart condition. If you do the shock may be too much. Nothing on a Benz is cheap.

Dave

UPDATE: Adding a pair of struts and a big addition is replacement of a bent lower control arm. As such I would probably have guessed another $1,000 before I heard from MB. Yep. Way off on my estimate.

I got the Benz estimate. As usual they added in some parts that may not be necessary. Waiting on one from Goodyear hoping their hammer is a bit smaller.

I'll update when the GY quote comes in.

I also am pissed about that initial fee. But, it is commonplace these days for any major repair joint. So, acceptable.

Hope insurance is kicking in for the big $$$$.

We didn't call the insurance people to avoid an annual increase in the premium and also avoid any reports to CARFAX. I have my fingers crossed on the latter. We'll just write one check and forget about it.

Numbers are in. Mercedes came in at $3,879 (probably pre-tax). Loaner only had 689 miles on it.
I got Goodyear to come down to $3,800 all in tax included (no loaner of course).
Went with Goodyear since the car is already there and it's only 2 miles from our house.
Eh well. Hopefully the parts will be here by Friday.

Ouch.

At least your wife is OK. They can get really expensive to repair.

Gave me a scare for sure when she said she was in an accident. Thought it was a total job. Pretty violent for a curb hit as both wheels went over the abutment. She's still a little shook up, happened Monday. But will be fine.


I'm going to put an orange traffic cone next to it to warn others. Maybe the township board will see it and cause them to think it over.

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Maybe the township board will see it and cause them to think it over.

Their too busy looking for tax increases.

Dave