My car was in excellent working condition when I dropped it off to America service station. I have a Mercedes that had 135,000 miles, which is not terrible in the state of Georgia. They had an ad for a free engine scan. I also wanted my brakes checked and my window wipers replaced. occasionally the car used to vibrate for a few seconds upon starting and therefore I decided to take advantage of the free engine scan. free engine scan turned out to be a false advertising. They told me I needed to pay $280 for a diagnostic because their scan is showing codes which needs a special scan for 280. Let's be clear, I have always taking my car to Mercedes for every single service that they recommended. My car got service at least twice a year and I always pay for every single thing that they recommended. I'm currently on a tighter budget and therefore I decided since the car is no longer under warranty, I'd try going someplace else. They said my car came back with at least seven codes. The list was long. $1400 of parts had to be ordered from Mercedes and paid for in order for them to even agree to do the work. Of course this is not what they originally said they would often change what they originally said throughout my experience. I paid for the work and the labor was 2000. When I got my car back, the check engine light was on and the car was Shaking forcefully. I've never experienced that before. I kept telling Doug, the owner, and sometimes I would speak to Jeff. On one occasion, I spoke to Lucas. I wouldn't say anyone is extra friendly. They can be very abrupt and don't like being questioned. They don't listen very well, and you rarely get an apology. I bought my car back three times for the same issue, and they kept swearing that it was resolved, and that the check engine light was gone and the shaking of the car stopped, which always turned out to be a lie. Every time I would pick the car up within a day or five minutes, it would still do the same thing. I don't have a second vehicle and therefore I needed the problems to be resolved because now it had problems that it didn't have before I dropped it off. My daughter has to be dropped to school and picked up and I have to go to work. I explained to them that I work 12 hour shifts and I Work an hour away. My car could still drive, although it was a very rough drive. After the third time of still not fixing the issue, I told them I had to go on a cruise and wouldn't be available for a week but when I return, I will drop the car off again for the fourth time. I tried my best to give them a chance to fix the issue because I did spend about $4000. Anyway, I returned from the cruise and went to work the next day. While inside at the job, one of the nurses aids comes inside and tells me that my car engine was on and running and making a loud noise, like a fan noise, outside in the front. I went out to check in the car, had several messages on the dashboard. At mentioned antitheft activation, and on another side, it said that the car was inoperable. My remote didn't work and the car could not shut off. Nothing I did could shut that engine off. I looked up several things on various websites, including a Q&A blog with Mercedes-Benz, and called them as well to let them know what was going on. They cannot diagnose over the phone But they came up with a few reasons that a car engine starts up on its own or if a fan starts blowing and the car is unable to be shut off. I called americas service station to ask them What the heck did they do to my car? they said they were sending me a tow truck. When the tow truck came, he told me I would have to pay. He gave a quote of about $600 stating that he had to use a dolly and that he was going to charge me for every mile. Again, I work an hour away from the service station. . I can't leave my car in front of my job for 12 hours running because either the gas will run out of the car was going to overheat. Nonetheless, the tow truck driver was baffled as well and took the car and I was stuck having to pay the bill. I called to complain And Doug said if it's their problem, he would pay for the tow truck and fix it. Initially, it sounded like it was his own personal tow truck, and not a tow truck that he randomly selected and sent to me. When the car gets there, he takes two days to finally get back to me and tells me he thinks I need a battery. First of all, of course the battery would've died after the car dashboard lights and fan was running for over six hours. He told me it would be 140 for a new battery, and that does not include labor, I agreed because I need my vehicle back and I spent almost $4000. he told me my battery needed to be changed. Should've been detected during an oil change and they did an oil change because they initially said it was mandatory when they initialy did that work. Three days later he says it's the ECM. How convenient that my ECM and the part was going to be $1500, excluding labor. I'm done with them ! read more