Please share with me few snaps as how to replace the Hood Struts for my VW Passat. I couls see a bols and not at the lower end. But the upper part of the Strut which is attached to Hood looks different to me. I couldn’t identify any way to detach the old one. really not much to any hood strut replacement maybe 10 minutes on any car

are they really that much more? am i better off witha domestic car around 80k miles OR a japanese car with 120-140k miles? Benz parts are A LOT more than toyota. We do our own oil changes for our c230 and it cost us $60. This car takes fully synthetic oil and the filter is special order. To do brakes our selves was around $100. The dealership around our house charges $200 for oil and around $100 for breaks.

in search of good web site for ordering parts for 1997 mb E420 without going through Mercedes www.mercedesshop.com, look for "fastlane", Phil is the parts guy, very knowledgeable

What other parts are usually needed? How many hours labor should it take. My shop wants $250.00 to do this. It seems like a lot for a $5.00 part. (replacing plastic plug with metal plug) It’s a 2.8 6 cyl do not take it to this to that shop they r realy trying to rip u off it would only take about fifteen mins. time working on it max iv done it b4 hundreds of times n not even charge 4 something so simple i just had them to buy the...

What Will S said. When you have to pay Otto to work on your car instead of Bubba, it ain’t gonna be cheap!!

What Will S said. When you have to pay Otto to work on your car instead of Bubba, it ain’t gonna be cheap!!

or do they paint every part at the dealership? specifically front bumper on a 2009 mercedes c300 No. They would not match if they were painted at the factory. Paint changes from the first time the sun hits it. Good paint shops have a paint reader that can duplicate the current color of the paint making an exact match.

I was driving on the freeway and the timing belt snapped, I took it to the dealership and they said I need to replace two of the cylinders. How much would this cost, not the dealer price, but the parts themselves? You don’t replace a cylinder. While you have things apart you rebuild the entire engine.