Hi, hoping someone can help me. My grandmother-in-law has a1986 Mercedes 500SL which has been stalling on her mid drive. She’s had it “fixed” twice already but the problem remains. The car has sentimental value to her and she would love to be able to drive it again but the thought of it stalling and…

The web is your friend . And if you really want this fixed then a local dealer might be the best choice . I don’t think any of the regulars on this site live in San Francisco or have a Mercedes . Search the web for a Mercedes club near you as a start.

I cannot help you with references in the SF area and I am NOT a Benz expert. However, I’m near 100% certain this vehicle has CIS fuel injection which I am very familiar with due to experience on other Euro cars which used the same system. There’s also another phrase for CIS but since this is a fami…

You might check on an SL forum for their recommendations, also Yelp and Google, search for Mercedes mechanics. Here’s one forum (MB enthusiasts refer to it by its internal MB model, R107). https://mbworld.org/forums/sl-slc-class-r107-62/ But I bet @ok4450 is right.

There’s a “repair shops” link at the top of this page, try clicking there. I expect however you’ll get best results by asking someone who owns a Mercedes which shop they use. If all else fails, take it to a Mercedes dealership shop. In my area there are quite a few shops that specialize in upper…

[image] George_San_Jose1: There’s a “repair shops” link at the top of this page, try clicking there. Which is almost a waste of time . Most of the reveiws are years old .

[image] George_San_Jose1: I notice their signs when driving errands, and I expect they’re all in the phone book. The what???

Ask a kid nowadays what a phone book is and I would bet they would say GOOGLE it. :grin:

I was surprised to get a Yellow Pages last week, very short, hard to imagine most companies would spend the money to be in it.

its the contacts in their phone or email. lol

[image] texases: I was surprised to get a Yellow Pages last week, very short, hard to imagine most companies would spend the money to be in it. We stlll get the Yellow Pages here it is about 6 by 9 inches and about the thickness of a paper back it covers 4 county’s in my state and about half …

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Hmmm… With that level of lying, I wonder if his next career was as a used car salesman.

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