Originally Posted by Tinker

You pussy, never surrender!!!!

Actually, I know exactly as you felt. I chased stalling/surging issues with my wife's 16V for over a year. I even tried to talk my neighbor into fixing it. He is an old German mechanic with a Audi/BMW/M.B. shop. He came over and threw out some suggestions, but didn't want anything to do with it. I could just hear that little voice inside his head saying this thing is going to waste many hours of his time.

Unfortunately, I haven't found an independent like Stevebfl, MB Doc or a few other good mechanics and big contributors to the success of this site, within my area. I've become rather self sufficient in diagnoising and repairing all the car's issues/problems, so far, (knock on wood).

If the Benz is your primary transportation, then it becomes that much more important to get it running correctly/quickly.

I hope your mechanic is qualified to diagnois it and won't simply throw parts at it.

Please let us know what they discover.

Best of luck.

Tinker