Mercedes-Benz servicing
Approval-grade oil, logbook stamped. Price confirmed before work starts.
European servicing from $199 Offer terms ↗What it costs
European car service
4-cylinder European cars
Book this ↗ SERVICINGMajor service
Logbook items plus the larger interval items for your car.
Book this ↗4-cylinder European models on approval-grade oil with OE-specification filters. Price depends on make, model, kilometres and oil specification, confirmed before any work starts. Six- and eight-cylinder engines and performance models are quoted first.
Prices include GST · Price terms
Details
Servicing here does not affect your consumer guarantees, and manufacturer warranties generally do not require dealer servicing where the work meets the manufacturer's standards. We follow the schedule, use appropriate parts, stamp the logbook and keep the records.
How we service your Mercedes-Benz
- Your manufacturer's service schedule, for your model, year and engine
- Oil carrying your engine's approval code, from Liqui Moly, Penrite, Motul, Castrol, Mobil and Valvoline
- OE-specification filters from Mann, Mahle, Ryco and Bosch
- Service indicator reset
- Logbook stamped and the records kept
- Price confirmed for your car before any work starts
What can change the price
Service schedule
Mercedes-Benz Australia puts most passenger models on 12 months or 25,000 km, alternating Service A and Service B. Some AMG models are 12 months or 20,000 km. The service indicator tells you which is next. Your car's own logbook is the final word for your model.
What a generic service misses
- Which service is next, A or B
- Service A and Service B are different jobs. The indicator says which one, and the price follows it.
- Automatic gearbox oil and filter
- Mercedes-Benz Australia lists it as a scheduled item, but it isn't in every A or B service, so it gets missed.
- Brake fluid, coolant and filters
- Each is a scheduled replacement on its own timing, between the yearly services.
- Battery registration on newer models
- Many newer models, especially with start-stop, need a new battery registered.
Needs a scan tool: Service indicator reset · Electronic parking brake pad-change mode · Battery registration on newer models · Gearbox fault code read
What moves the figure
- How much oil your engine takes
- Engines take different amounts. Yours always gets its full fill, and the price is confirmed for your car.
- The oil your engine needs
- We use the specification your manufacturer sets, from Liqui Moly, Penrite, Motul, Castrol, Mobil and Valvoline. The grade and the brand change the figure.
- Your oil filter
- A less common or dearer filter changes the figure. If a part has to be ordered in, we tell you when we call.
- What your schedule calls for
- Other filters, spark plugs or fluids due at this service are extra items, priced before we start.
You stay in the driver's seat.
Choose your service
Basic or European servicing, or tyres. Not sure? Pick “something else” and tell us what's going on.
Give us your rego
Or your tyre size. That is how we look up your car and what it takes.
We call you back
With the price for your car and a time that suits. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
Can an independent workshop service it without affecting the warranty?
Yes. Australian Consumer Law prevents a manufacturer requiring dealership servicing as a condition of a new-car warranty. The schedule must still be followed and appropriate parts and fluids used, which is what we do and document.
Do you use the correct specification fluids?
Yes, that is why we confirm the engine variant first. The specification is exact, and the invoice records what went in so the service history holds up.
What if it needs something you cannot do?
We will tell you before we start rather than after. Some work genuinely belongs with a franchised dealer, and saying so is cheaper for you than us learning on your car.
Details
A Mercedes-Benz will generally tell you what it needs, and the mistake is to override it with a generic schedule. We read the car, quote what it is asking for, and explain it in plain terms.
We are an independent workshop. Mercedes-Benz has not authorised us and we are not a dealer. What we can do is meet the specification, document that we met it, and charge independent rates for it.
If a job is genuinely better done by a franchised dealer, we will say so. That happens rarely, but it happens, and you are better served by hearing it than by us taking the work anyway.
Mercedes-Benz oil approvals
- MB 229.5 · 5W-30 / 5W-40
- Mainly older petrol engines
- MB 229.51 / 229.52 · 5W-30
- Low-ash spec for CDI and BlueTEC diesels, and some newer petrol engines
- MB 229.71 · 0W-20
- Newer four-cylinder and six-cylinder petrol engines built for it. Not a general upgrade
Where these claims come from
- Mercedes-Benz facts on this page
- Mercedes-Benz Australia, maintenance
- Mercedes-Benz facts on this page
- Mobil, oils by Mercedes-Benz approval
- Mercedes-Benz facts on this page
- Liqui Moly Top Tec 4200 (MB 229.51 / 229.52)
- Servicing at an independent workshop does not affect your consumer guarantees, and manufacturer warranties generally do not require dealer servicing where the work meets the manufacturer's standards.
- ACCC, Independent repairers factsheet (New Car Retailing Industry market study)
- Service schedules, oil specifications and intervals are set by the manufacturer for your specific model, year and engine.
- The logbook or service booklet supplied with your vehicle. We work from that rather than publishing an interval here.
- Manufacturers must make service and repair information available to independent repairers.
- ACCC, Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme
Other makes
24 years of
mechanical experience.
Everyday servicing. European cars. Complex repairs.
Talk directly to the people working on your car.
7 Daking Street.
Mon to Sat 8:30am to 5:30pm, Sun 9am to 2pm
North Parramatta NSW 2151
Licensed repairer MVRL 62840