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10-K/A - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1 FORM 10-K/A - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1form10ka.htm
EX-33 - EXHIBIT 33.1 REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1ex331.htm
EX-31 - EXHIBIT 31.1 SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1ex311.htm
EX-35 - EXHIBIT 35.1 SERVICER COMPLIANCE STATEMENT - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1ex351.htm
EX-33 - EXHIBIT 33.2 REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1ex332.htm
EX-34 - EXHIBIT 34.2 ATTESTATION REPORT - MERCEDES-BENZ AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2010-1ex342.htm

EXHIBIT 34.1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
Board of Directors and Shareholders
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC

We have examined Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC's ("MBFS USA LLC" or the "Company"),
formerly known as DCFS USA LLC, compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation AB for the United States Consumer Automotive
Retail Installment Sale Contracts (the "Platform") described in the accompanying Report on Assessment of
Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria of MBFS USA LLC ("Management's Report") as of and for
the year ended December 31, 2010, excluding criteria 1122(d)(1)(iii), 1122(d)(2)(v), 1122(d)(2)(vi),
1122(d)(4)(x), 1122(d)(4)(xi), 1122(d)(4)(xii), 1122(d)(4)(xiii) and 1122(d)(4)(xv), which management has
determined are not applicable to the activities performed by the Company with respect to the Platform. The
Platform consists of the asset-backed transactions and securities defined by management in Appendix A of
Management's Report. Management is responsible for the Company's compliance with the applicable
servicing criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's compliance with the
applicable servicing criteria for the Platform based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the
Company's compliance with the applicable servicing criteria for the Platform and performing such other
procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing selected asset-
backed transactions and securities constituting the Platform and evaluating whether the Company performed
servicing activities related to those transactions and securities in compliance with the applicable servicing
criteria for the period covered by this report. Accordingly, our testing may not have included servicing
activities related to each asset-backed transaction or security constituting the Platform. Further, our
examination was not designed to detect material noncompliance that may have occurred prior to the period
covered by this report and that may have affected the Company's servicing activities during the period
covered by this report. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our
examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company's compliance with the applicable
servicing criteria.
As described in Management's Report, the Company engaged various vendors to perform servicing activities
with respect to criteria 1122(d)(2)(i), 1122(d)(4)(i), 1122(d)(4)(ii) and 1122(d)(4)(viii). The Company
determined that each vendor is not considered a "servicer," as defined in Item 1101(j) of Regulation AB; and
therefore, the Company is assuming responsibility for assessing compliance with such servicing criteria
applicable to each vendor's servicing activities. In accordance with Regulation AB and its related
interpretations, the requirement for management to assess compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to
a vendor's activities is satisfied if the Company has instituted policies and procedures to monitor whether
such vendor's activities comply in all material respects with such criteria. Compliance with the applicable
servicing criteria is achieved if those policies and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance
that such vendor's activities comply with such criteria and those policies and procedures are operating
effectively for the period covered by Management's Report. Our examination does not provide a legal
determination of whether a vendor is or is not considered a servicer, and therefore, on whether the Company,
in its Management Report, is eligible to elect to take responsibility for assessing compliance with the servicing
criteria applicable to each vendor's servicing activities.
Our examination disclosed the following material noncompliance with 1122(d)(2)(vii)(B) and 1122(d)(4)(vii)
applicable to the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010 for the Platform.
1.
With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(2)(vii)(B), certain reconciliations were not prepared within
30 calendar days after the bank statement cut-off date.
2.
With respect to servicing criterion 1122(d)(4)(vii), certain loss mitigation or recovery actions were not
initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance with the timeframes or other requirements
established by the transaction agreements.

In our opinion, except for the material noncompliance described in the preceding paragraph, Mercedes-Benz
Financial Services USA LLC complied, in all material respects, with the aforementioned applicable servicing
criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010 for the United States Consumer Automotive Retail
Installment Sale Contracts.

The information included in the Management Response section of Appendix B of Management's Report is
presented by the Company to provide additional information and is not a part of the Company's servicing
criteria. The information in the Management Response section of Appendix B has not been subjected to the
procedures applied in the examination of compliance with applicable servicing criteria, and accordingly, we
express no opinion on it.


/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

Southfield, Michigan
March 24, 2011