Earlier this year, there was a story going around about an unlucky Mercedes-Benz R63 AMG owner who was quoted $57,000 to have the engine rebuilt after a head bolt failure. But he decided to do all the work on his own and it’s a good thing he did. Because Popular Mechanics reported that after eight months of work, the car is back together and running. And he has an extra $50,000 in his bank account.
Back in September of 2016 a Grassroots Motorsports forum member, mazdeuce, was faced with the ungodly estimate from his local Mercedes dealership after the engine failed at 106,000 miles. But instead of forking over the sky-high dollar amount he decided to buy a lift and do it himself. Because who doesn’t love saving money AND getting to turn some wrenches. Plus it gave him a reason to buy a lift. With eight months of disassembly, resurfacing and rebuilding the car is back in action. And thankfully, he documented the process from start to finish, on a 98-page forum thread for all of us to watch. Stay tuned to PowerNationTV.com to see how much he saved by doing the job himself.
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That sounds like a scam
50 grand lmao you’re getting straight ripped off if you pay that much
No follow up video?
Haha
One man one engine hand built bullshit
Screw that,drop a LSX into it and never look back. After selling what was still good on the old engine he would have got the LSX for free.
Typical piece of junk Mercedes attitude. When they run they are nice, when they fail, it costs big time. And at only 106K miles, a head bolt should not be failing. The piece of junk is probably using "torque to yield bolts" which have been known to fail at some point. That said, it says a lot about Mercedes reliability and how they treat the customers. You could have bough the whole vehicle for not much more than they wanted to repair it. If it was just the head bolt, you take the head off, check it and the block for flatness and then go from there. It may only have needed the head resurfaced and not the block, which could have been done while in the vehicle. Mercedes should have made a "good faith offer " to repair it at minimal cost.
That's ridiculous!! You could actually buy all the tools, including a two-post lift, and a compressor, and all of it, for less than what they quoted him for the repair. Perhaps a lot of labor still, but they basically tried to charge him for almost a year's worth of labor. Just stupid!