Battery Cable Problems of Mercedes Benz 500

My 2000 Mercedes Benz s-500 instrument cluster started flickering off and on about 3 months ago, then went completely out on Sunday February 1, 2009 while returning from a super bowl party. I had to drive approximately 90 miles with absolutely no help from my indication and safety system on a $80,000 vehicle. After days of trying to figure out what to do and countless hours of searching on the internet, I decided to disconnect the negative battery cable to reset to cars computer. This is what I have to do approx twice a year when my radio, cd, navigation and phone goes out. That did the trick for now. I called my local mb dealer in germantown, MD after reading some of the complaints on this website and was told to bring the car in so that they could hook it up to a diagnostic computer at $195. 00 per hour. After reading the comments here and knowing that mb has thousands of vehicles with this same problem and has fixed approx 7 cars. I own 2 mb a 98 c-class and a 2000 s-500 and love both of my cars but I will never, never, never, ever buy another Mercedes Benz vehicle. I will stick Honda or Acura from now own. Every time I have taken my car into mb for service, I have been screwed over. Now have a vibration when the car is shifting through lower gears. Mb says it is a bearing in my drive shaft and it is not covered under warranty but my local mechanic at another service station says it's a bearing in my drive shaft that connects to my transmission and should be covered by warranty. I also paid over $2000. 00 to fix the problem with the locking gear shift and tow. This is a terrible way to treat loyal mb customers. I would love to have the new s-500 because I love the styling and features but just can't take the chance with all the problems and the most dishonest service departments in the car industry. I will encourage all of my friends and family to never buy another mb until me start treating their customers like they want them to come back. "a !@#$% us marine".

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