Dear all,
My car had a terrible tranny leak and i bought my car to my usual shop, autopro in oakland(The owner called George). At first George replaced the oil pan for about $120 coz he said it was leaking seriously and asked me to come back to check if there's any leak... however my car still suffered serious tranny leak. Then he said i have to replace all of the seals, both front and rear and maybe the oil pump seal. This will cost me over $1000 because he needed to take the whole tranny down and it's going to take a few days! I don't wanna do it because i feel like i can get the whole tranny rebuilt for a couple hundreds more and i think i can live with it by filling ATF to its level($5/qt/month compare $1000)
It is very hard to find a good mb shop in san fran/oakland area
(can't find any good in this forum) so i tried to drive about 20 miles east and i pick Bill to see if i can get any luck.
I tried Bill at walnut creek and he fixed my tranny leak for only $80 (rear seal) and it doesn't leak anymore(at least i don't see any oil on the floor and no smoke during stop lights)! He really knows what he is doing! I am so happy to get my car back in one day and have over 900 big bucks! It really worths for the extra 20 miles drive!

Another story about AutoPro is my car had no heat a few months ago and i brought my car there... George said he needed to check the whole unit to figure out what kind of problem is that and it's gonna charge me over $100 plus parts and labor if needed... guess it is normal for most of the mb shops in east bay. i searched out this forum and ordered the monovalve for just $37 from fastlane and guess what? My car got the heat back and just took me about 20 mins!

Some said George is good and his price is reasonable... well.. maybe he just doesn't like me then, just my 0.02!