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Dave Plowman (News) ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

> They do charge through the nose for some service parts like brakes, etc,
> but these can be readily obtained elsewhere.

Not if you're getting the car serviced by a dealer.

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Adrian > wrote:
> > They do charge through the nose for some service parts like brakes,
> > etc, but these can be readily obtained elsewhere.

> Not if you're getting the car serviced by a dealer.

But why get it serviced by a dealer, unless near new? They're not
difficult cars to service, and any competent mechanic should manage it.
Fault finding might be more of a problem - but that's nothing to do with
the cost of spares.

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Yeah, Greek version.

DAS

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"Julian Edge" > wrote in message
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> "SteveH" > wrote in message
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>>> for my old Alpha.
>>
>> What's one of those, then?
>
> Like a cross between a Pherrrarri and a Phord
>
>

Achtung! Cliche and/or trite saying:

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."

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"Andy Turner" > wrote in message
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> Sell it, get another car. Just how beautiful can a 9-year old 318 be?

[...]

Just came across an interesting development over at MB UK (wash my mouth
out).

For cars over three years old they are now offering a 20% discount on labour
and 10% on parts. A service team manager openly admitted this is to
encourage owners with out-of-warranty cars to stick with Merc for servicing
rather than go to independents.

The scheme applies to all the factory-owned dealerships, which means the
main metropolitan areas like London, Bormingham, Glasgow etc.
(I don't know whether something similar has been introduced by the
franchises but I would not be surprised if it has.)

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"Julian Edge" > wrote in message
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> Wouldn't it be nice, though'but if they were to consider the political /
> marketing / socially responsible effects of encouraging the ideas of
> maintaining the planets resources through reliability and longevity of
> design?
>
> They've actually built a car that will 'run for ever' and they choose to
> penalise me because I bought one.
[...]

At Merc they are very happy to see you with an old car. Service depts are
run separately from sales and have to make their own profits. On certain
older cars (the 190 being a notable example) the price of parts was dropped.

At MB UK sales and service depts are sometimes even in separate locations.

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"Andy Turner" > wrote in message
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> Yeah, but from their point of view, this loyalty hasn't manifested
> itself in a new purchase. I think the manufacturers are only going to
> be interested in maintaining customer loyalty if it means you loyally
> purchase a new one every few years, rather than 'loyally' hang onto
> the same one for years.
>
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> They could perhaps argue that trying to get you to run a newer car
> *is* actually greener than persisting with the older one.
[...]

Well, old chap, it might help if you give a hint of what it is supposed to
be about.

The various links reposted don't seem to satisfy your requirements.

http://alphacourse.org/ ?


DAS

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>> Indeed. Again I cry (excuse me) HUGE! WHERE'S THAT FEKKIN LINK?
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And, as a matter of interest (AAMoI) you bought a...?

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> So we left.

Dave Plowman (News) ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

>> > They do charge through the nose for some service parts like brakes,
>> > etc, but these can be readily obtained elsewhere.

>> Not if you're getting the car serviced by a dealer.

> But why get it serviced by a dealer, unless near new?

Now that's a different question for the OP entirely...

Please top-post. I am fed up with haviong to scroll down reams of text (not
in this case!) to get to a reply...

Which Merc? What replaced it?

DAS
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"Steve Firth" > wrote in message
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> We bought a Merc, or rather she bought a Merc. I bought one later and
> then got rid of it ASAP as it was one of the worst cars I've owned ever.
> The superiority of German cars is vastly overstated.