Ok, ok, ... take a deep breath Lovin and hopefully you will be listening to the voice of reason here. First of all, let me say that I know exactly how you feel right now. It is the same feeling I had when I noticed that MB had taken out a few features that I really liked. I was so mad about these things that even the tiniest little problems started to annoy me. I just wanted to give the car back to them! At one point I called MB and told them that I would make a public statement about there lack of concern for my problem, by hoisting the car up 50 feet in the air and letting it fall to the concrete into a million pieces while the news chanel filmed it. I was just so digusted that I was finding fault with every thing about this car, especially considering the price etc... All in all, I had this immage of owning a Mercedes, one of the "best built cars in the world", which I had equated to mean "perfect". And this Loving is where my thought process went astray. You see my friend, the car is in fact "not perfect", and can never be! For one, it was built on the planet earth by human beings like you and me. That means that as much as we demand perfection, it simply can never be, ever. Nothing on this planet made by man is perfect. The problem is that those of us who drive MBs have selected them because we actually admire the fact that somebody has at least attempted to come close for us. So, believe it or not, but the MB is still one of the finest engineered cars in the world dude! Unfortunately and fortunately we live in an age of lightening fast changes in technology, but high end car designs are planned well into the future. There are going to be hits and misses along the way. A good dealer can take a lot of the unpleasentness out of what you are currently going through right now. I'm not sure your dealer is doing every thing they can to make this better for you. Perhaps you can go to another dealer, but purhasing another high end vehicle will result in other high end problems. Again Lovin, humans are building these cars, from Fords to Ferrarris, humans are making this stuff. Lovin, if you think your experiencing delays now in parts deliveries etc., then just go ahead and buy an Aston Martin and you'll really go off the deep end!! So Lovin, I'm sorry to say, but just like me, you need to change your vision of what this car actually is and is not. It "is" one of the finest built automobiles in the world. It "is" loaded with more electronics than just about any other high end vehicle at this price. It "is" by far one of the best looking, fastest, and yet smoothest riding vehicles on the planet!!! What a combo!! Now I'll tell you what it is not. First it is "not" $200,000, even with every extra MB has to offer!!! It is "not" a tempermental race car in road car clothes that requires the Earnhart racing team to maintain. And...it is "not" built by some allien perfect race outside the solar system for shipping to the U.S. for Mark11 and Lovin!!! Dude when ever I have a problem with my car and someone asks me if I'm pissed, upset or disgusted, I just shrug my shoulders and say with a smile, "hey what do you want for $170,000"? "Nothins' perfect"! Then, I take them and me for the ride of their life! Now that's just about perfect!! Lovin, bottom line is that once your car is runnig well, it will likely continue to do so, and your enjoyment will ease your pain and heal the wounds. Then one day you'll be toolin' down the highway at super smooth, super sonic speed, gettin' all the looks and then, just then, you'll pat your dash board with pride and say to your self "I love this car"!! Hang in there dude!!!