So my 2008 GL450 transmission pump failed and the Mercedes dealership wants to charge me $7500 to replace the...

So my 2008 GL450 transmission pump failed and the Mercedes dealership wants to charge me $7500 to replace the transmission whole. Are they trying to fuck me or is that really what must be done? I can't believe the fucking transmission failed after only 80,000 miles.
>Protip: Don't buy mercedes

cant you find a tranny shop in your city?

Well, you learned your lesson on Germany's concept of maintenance (hint: $$$$$ or maybe more accurately €€€€€.... I work for a German software company and everything is overengineered, the maintenance is ridiculously expensive).

When I had an older Camry, I failed inspection in PA on emissions. This is for a valid reason (there was a tear in the flex pipe ahead of the catalytic converter). Now I was at a AAA Care Care center. They said it would be $800 for a new cat. I had trouble believing the repair should be this expensive, and I went to meineke. They replaced just the flex pipe for around $370 with tax + disposal.

The kicker? I posted on here about it later (and did more research) and apparently a flex pipe replacement is the kind of things a lot of mom and pop shops will do for less than $100, closer to $50 in many cases. I saved versus the original price offered (which was replacement of the entire cat assembly) but still massively overpaid for the repair.

Anyways, you owe it to yourself to get at least two more quotes before taking the dealer's advice.

>owning an out of warranty benz
>being this retarded

Kys familia

op i made it a decision long ago never to own a mercedes when i saw this wonderful german engineering here.

Might as well with a bill this high.
I'm totally fucked here, I was driving it long distance and it failed 250 miles from home. Mercedes said they offered complimentary towing, but apparently that is only if you get the work done at the authorized stealership, so I'm stuck paying exorbitant towing fees if I try to shop around or a $7500 transmission replacement at the stealership. Literally designed to fuck you in the ass.

Why did you buy the gl anyways? I dont want to beat you down buy rich people dont buy mercedes, they lease. Only pretend rich fuckboiis buy modern mercedes and dont have the money to fix it.

Do you still owe money on the vehicle? If not, sell it as is, take the L and buy something more reliable and cheaper to repair.

You should read the book "stop act rich and start living like a millionaire" by thomas stanley. He has a whole chapter cars. Real millionaire drive toyota or ford and pay on avg 30k for their vehicles. Keep them for 10 years.

Good luck br/o/ther.

>I'm totally fucked here, I was driving it long distance and it failed 250 miles from home. Mercedes said they offered complimentary towing, but apparently that is only if you get the work done at the authorized stealership, so I'm stuck paying exorbitant towing fees if I try to shop around or a $7500 transmission replacement at the stealership. Literally designed to fuck you in the ass.
this is why you don't take tows from dealers, and why AAA is a better deal than a lot of people make it out to be.
(Also, if you claim a tow from your auto insurance company, they'll often report it on your LexisNexus CLUE Auto Report, which means your insurance rates will go up as if you made a comprehensive/collision claim).

AAA middle membership = they'll tow it 100 miles, but you can basically have them drop it and do this 2-3 times if you have to.

you sound pretty fucked user. if I look up in my area what a 2008 GL450 with 100K miles (assumption) in excellent condition what it's worth (with the transmission blown out it'll be worth substantially less), KBB says $15,000 for private party, NADA says $19K private party and dealer trade in. For a rough trade in, NADA says $12.8K. options might affect the price somewhat (I let the sites price at a standard configuration).

If you sell the car, you'll have probably somewhere around $13K to buy a new vehicle. If not - you're going to have to sink in $7500, or somewhere around half your cars value, in order to fix it, and even then something can STILL can go wrong in it.

I wish I still had a consumer reports login to look at the reliability survey of your car...

It's not actually my car, it's my mother's. My parents were rich (400k/yr) but terrible with saving, and then my father tragically passed away days before his $1M company life insurance kicked in. We bought the car with cash. The money from my father's incredibly lucrative career has since run out and my mother works very hard to make ends meet in a house we can't really afford. I'm very aware of my parents' financial blunders and I assure you my mother beats herself up about it more than enough given how hard she works.
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We've contacted another transmission shop in the area who offered to tow it, and they laughed loudly at their number when we told him it. We can afford $3-4k on it, but at this point it's a white elephant we need to sell. If we're lucky I can drive this thing home and sell it for $13k or something. Crossing my fingers the trans problem is not severe.

>If we're lucky I can drive this thing home and sell it for $13k or something. Crossing my fingers the trans problem is not severe.
If it is and you wreck the transmission (and potentially something else) not only are you out of the money for the tow (which you said was expensive but didn't specify the amount) but you might have a worthless brick that you need to pay for the disposal of while having no money for a new vehicle.

Have you asked the Mercedes dealer (or have they offered) to buy the car used? That may be a better option.