I have a 63S coupe and was quoted at $850 for a schedule B service. This is at the Mercedes Benz of Walnut Creek dealership in the Bay Area. How reasonable is this compared to other dealerships and/or independents.

 

That's a fairly standard price. MB of Walnut Creek is fairly straight-forward with their pricing. I take my C63S Coupe there. Having said that, not every Service A and B are the same. There are various additional items on the 63 AMGs that are due at intervals overlapping with Service A or B, so the services are numbered as in A, A1, A2.. and B, B1, B2... The transmission and rear locking differential have a service interval, and coincide with different A and B services. Eventually you'll also have to do the spark plugs. So there isn't one price for a Service B. You need to be more specific as to which Service B this is. What else is due besides just the normal oil change? A simple Service A for example is only about $300 at MB of Walnut Creek, but it can go up to slightly over $1000 if there are additional items such as mentioned. I ended up getting the prepaid maintenance package as it was significantly cheaper than paying for the individual services. I had the initial 4 year package and then prepaid for the next 3 services after that. Was about 30% cheaper and no taxes on the service package, whereas if you pay for the services individually you have to pay sales tax on top. I have one service left on the current prepaid package.

 

Pretty simple really. The 2021 GLC63 was serviced at a MB dealership in March 2022 A, March 2023 B, March 2024 A. The March 2024 (30,000 miles) service included replacement of : air filter, battery, front and rear differential fluid, wiper blades, oil and filter and tranny fluid. So, the upcoming March 2025 B (40,000 miles) is nothing special and will include only replacing brake fluid and engine oil and filter, plus checking various things like they always do. The March 2026 A (50,000) won't be cheap as I'll need to replace spark plugs, transfer case drain and fill, and engine air filter.

I believe the B he quoted me was for oil and filter and brake fluid, as far as scheduled replacements go. Is $850 still reasonable?

Do you think it's worth to go to a MB Dealer...they probably find more stuff wrong with it than an indepedent would given the gear they have and the overhead they have to pay for!!!

 

So here's the thinking. The first 4 services fall within the factory warranty period, although your warranty is or has already expired, so it might be advisable to have them check out the car and potentially get anything addressed before the warranty expires. It's a good idea to do all services at the dealership as long as it is under warranty. If anything fails, you don't have to jump through hoops to proof that the car was properly serviced and potentially get a warranty claim denied. Servicing the car at the dealership can also get you goodwill repairs if something fails out of warranty. I got a couple of those when I discovered something after the warranty had already expired. After that, though it's up to you. You can take it to an Indy for future services. After this last prepaid service, I may start having it serviced at my Indy, however, MB of Walnut Creek has so far done mostly great work. I do take my car to my Indy for tires and brakes, though. Especially brakes, since I opted for better aftermarket rotors and I switched to better tires.

My only disappointed with MB of Walnut Creek so far is that after my previous scheduled maintenance in January 2024, my instrument cluster started to reset a couple of settings every time the car was parked for a while. I tried several things like changing the battery, but what ultimately seems to have fixed it so far is to completely reflash the instrument cluster with the help of BenzNinja last Tuesday. The dealership was no help or would have charged me a fortune, because re-flashing the instrument cluster took almost 24 hours, so at $250/hour or whatever their labor rate is that would have been a ridiculous bill. Dealerships are ill-equipped to fix software issues, so for that I have my BenzNinja membership now.

But it looks like I have a bone to pick with MB of Walnut Creek as this issue started the morning after they had serviced my car, and when we re-flashed the cluster, BenzNinja found that one coding value had been changed in my cluster. Not sure how that happened, but it's a hell of a coincidence that the issue started right after the scheduled maintenance, so I suspect something happened while my car was in for maintenance that changed this coding value. I will be writing the service director and my SA to get to the bottom of it and demand some kind of compensation for all the trouble.

 

Dealership is not ill equipped...they has the planet Mars compared with the Nigerian Ninja.
Ask me the details that you "don't remember" or you don't know.

24hour flashing at any dealership is free, for a documented reason, ....

$850 is quite reasonable if they will offer original AMG oil and filter and not some fake/Nigerian delete service delete.

 

Not familiar with BenzNinja...what is that?

So it sounds like you are more inclined to go to MB dealer only if the work is covered under warranty or pre-paid, neither of which I have.

I'm out-of-warranty on the 2021 GLC63. I do have a 90-day warranty with Carmax as the seller that goes through 6/30/25, and a five-year 100k (22k used) warranty through Republic (MaxCare). I'm thinking I should take the car to Mercedes Walnut Creek for the B service (just oil and brake fluid) to see if there are any other issues, and if there are, put the repair back to Carmax which is pretty much a full warranty, to the extent that I can. Make sense? Or do you think it is not worth, as the B paid fully by me. I guess it partly depends on how good the indy guy is at finding issues. I'm thinking a MB dealer would be more comprehensive as far as spotting issues. Who is your indy guy?

 

If you are member here, on the largest MB forum on the planet Earth, you can buy a 20$ interface and everything will be free for you....no need to pay any Nigerian scam.

 

Maybe in Spain and/or while under warranty, but not here if the issue occurs out of warranty. Dealership did end up reflashing the COMAND system and eating the cost, but it didn't fix the issue. Anyway, not getting involved in whatever beef you have with BenzNinja. Not a fan of airing dirty laundry in public. Great if you offer your services for free. Who pays your bills?

 

So if your dealer eat the cost for flashing the Comand, the answer about flashing the IC it's obvious... they will do if they consider that will solve your issue, but you still not provide the necessary information to verify the cause of the issue,


Anyway, I am not offering my service for free, I have a business and 3 websites that's bring some bread on my table and some of my son's Cambridge invoices,

This forum bring me a powerful US market feedback, very important for my business, so giving free advice, free Navigation MAP codes or free Antiteft codes or free ILS, etc, coding for real members is quite cheap for my development.

And I am white....I can speak 3 languages, I spent 11 years at the University and I paid 26 years training on Mercedes....I have no need to sell stolen Copyrighted stuffs . Keep the Windows antivirus enabled and everything will be fine!
Ninja just cloned one of my websites and post a Nigerian scam, I am just like many more here, hacked by a scum.
FBI will do the rest,

 

Thanks for finally being honest and coming clean about the scam you're running. You are actually quite expensive according to your business website (which I will not promote here). You should really man up and buy a sponsorship or banner advertisement instead of leaching off this site.

 

OK thanks, I will think about,