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If the cost comes down to you make sure you have the component and they don't inadvertantly 'chuck it in the skip' or whatever might happen to it, my suggestion would be contact them in the morning to make sure it doesn't vanish.
In the meantime start researching the various companies who repair such items as ECUs ABS modulators etc, hopefully you'll find someone who has experience of this unit and can repair it for you.
Its been many years now but i had two ECU problems on Mercs, in both cases they were repaired by the people on the Isle of Wight, www.avilec.co.uk/, indeed one of their repaired units is still operating well in our now 27 year old Merc, bear in mind this was probably 15 years ago so i'm well out of touch with who currently is top notch so only take my experience as a starting point.
They don't work cheap and can't say i blame them, when the second unit failed i tried to find somewhere cheaper, that was a fast learning curve because my ECU was sent far and wide to two other places, one said nothing wrong (whilst charging for testing) the other tried to tell me the unit was sc*** and he'd bin it for me to save postage...now i'm daft but not that daft, the parts inside those particular ECUs are rare indeed...so the second one went to the IoW and as i should have known came back repaired well...lesson learned a self congratulatory website equals the square root of sod all.
Costs? i seem to recall £350 ish was the cost for each fix, a new ECU would have been £1200/1500 at the time.
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