Oil_Burner said:
Why couldnt a MB dealership repair that motor? Take care of her and I doubt you'd have any trouble.
Listen to this. The guy I know that bought a 2008 on the dealer floor got her for 22,500 OUT THE DOOR!
Now is the time to buy people!
For starters they use a different scan tool. Then they would not be able to look up any parts. Then they would not be able to look up any labor times. Then nobody in the shop would likely want to have anything to do with it.
I take it you've never worked at a dealer, much less an MB one.
Call a BMW dealer and ask them if they will service your 1984 Lincoln Mark VII.
Call a Volkswagen dealer and ask them if they will service your 1984 Volvo 740 diesel.
This is the cross to bear with goofy transplant cars, or transplant engines. Unless they are REALLY common, like Mitsubishi 3.0L V6s in 1986 to 2001 Chrysler products, they won't know much about them and won't CARE to know much about them. Generally dealer techs go kicking and screaming into change anyways. How do you think the Saab guys feel about having to know Subaru (9-2x) or Trailblazers (9-7x) that have ZERO in common with their other products? Yet I bet if you showed up at a Subie dealer's doorstep with a broken 9-2x they would kick you out like a red-headed step child.
So many of these models end up short-lived, and end up where nobody wants them. Just look at the difference in prices for a 1st-gen Odyssey and an Isuzu Oasis. Same car, same platform, same builder (Honda). But the Oasis is virtually worthless. And the Honda guys would just as soon stab a fork in your eye than even look up an oil filter for you.
Now the GC CRD is not a total transplant model, like say the Crossfire is (another unwanted orphan), but that engine/trans will be such that if you own one in years to come you will have to take it upon yourself to really know something about it, or have someone willing to do what it takes to service it and keep it alive and happy. And I would be willing to bet there are VERY few of those people around.