Please read my other post about the car not cranking, it just started this last thursday and drags to crank when warm. If it sits for 30 min to an hour it will be very hard to crank but if you crank it and shut it off, and crank it again it will cran fine. Cold starts from sitting overnight are fine. Indy mechanic said it was the injectors leaking down, and try to run cleaner in it for 3 or so tanks to set a pattern. Said that it would cost me 1600 bucks to replace them and so I should just live with it or replace them if its not bad gas. I asked them to check the CPS but they insist its my injectors. ARRRGH!!!!
New Problem is that when I got it back from them, now my tranny shifts a little weird when going in third gear, rpms go up a little and it shifts and they fall back down. This happens when the engine is cold. Otherwise it shifts smooth. WAS NOT doing it before I took it to this shop!!!! On the drive here to south Georgia it was doing fine. In fact, the car has a new transmission from a year ago!!!! COULD THIS SHOP JUST SCREWED OVER MY CAR? All they said they did was replace distributor caps, rotors, and plugs.

I am hoping that someone here can please respond to our plee. I got advice here from someone and took our car back to the shop this morning andtold him to check the crankshaft position sensor, itcould be bad, but this mercedes place says it is not and its the injectors. They kept it all day andsaid the ran it through diagnostics. I am not believing this. My car was runing fine until I drove it down 3 hours from Atlanta, where I live. Thursday, on the way down, I bought gas at a truck stop off the interstate and that is when the problem started....could I have bad gas???? I talked to my mechanic that has the total history on my car back in Atlanta and he said he has been working on Mercedes for 37 years and has never replaced an injector on a V8 420. He said he would bet his money on a fuel pressure regulator. When you crank the car warm you smell raw gas and it smells of it out the tailpipe with some smoke. He said that it is the problem and will check it out when I get home.
Can someone here give us advice??? We are here in south Ga. and won't be taking the car back to this local indy mechanic, only other option is the dealer which I won't go to. My mechanic said that it will be ok to run the gas out and fill it up with some injector cleaner for now. Says it will smell of raw fuel like that.

Could this really be my problem???? We are learning about this car and my husband is baffled. PLEASE SOMEONE ADVISE!!!
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