Just wondering if anyone has experience of these things.
The mother in law has an old (W reg?) automatic A class. It won't start and the AA have said the problem is the starter motor. I'm about 90 miles away so can't check it out easily myself.
The local garage to the M in L (in the Lake District) are a willing bunch but better matched to simple run of the mill vehicles. They phoned the local Merc dealer who said something about removing subframes to get access and quoted about £600-700 for the job. That sounds remarkably high to me.
One of the M in L's sons is talking about scraping the vehicle because it's not worth that much. However the M in L has MS, likes the car because it's auto and small and doesn't want to change the vehicle - realistically she probably will only be capable of driving for a few more years anyway. Is the starter really such an expensive PITA job? And is anything else likely to cause this like inhibit switches etc - I'm not convinced the AA man is going to be right, by the sounds of things he didn't do much fault finding.
Julian.