Exhibit 5.1


                [Letterhead of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP]




                                          March 10, 2005


DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC
27777 Inkster Road
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334


Re:   DaimlerChrysler Services North America LLC Registration Statement on
      Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      We have acted as special counsel for you in connection with the
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement"), filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), for the registration under the Act of $1,000,000
aggregate principal amount of asset backed notes (the "Notes"). Each series of
Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture substantially in the form filed
as an exhibit to the Registration Statement (an "Indenture") by and between
the issuing trust and the indenture trustee named in the related prospectus
supplement.

      We have made such investigation of law as we deemed appropriate and have
examined the proceedings heretofore taken and are familiar with the procedures
proposed to be taken by the Registrant in connection with the authorization,
issuance and sale of the Notes.

      Based on the foregoing and subject to the assumptions, qualifications
and limitations set forth below, we are of the opinion that:

      1.    When an Indenture has been duly authorized by all necessary action
            by the parties thereto and has been duly executed and delivered by
            the parties thereto, and the Notes issued pursuant to such
            Indenture have been duly executed, authenticated and delivered and
            paid for as described in the prospectus supplement, such Notes
            will be validly issued and binding obligations of the issuing
            trust, fully paid and non-assessable and subject to applicable
            bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws affecting
            creditors' rights generally and subject to general principles of
            equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a
            proceeding in equity or at law).





      In rendering the foregoing opinions, we have assumed that each party to
the Indenture has full power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under those agreements, as applicable. In addition, we have
assumed that the Indenture and the Notes will be executed and delivered in
substantially the form filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement with
such changes acceptable to us, and that such Notes will be sold as described
in the Registration Statement. We express no opinion as to the laws of any
jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of New York and the federal laws
of the United States of America.

      We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the heading
"Legal Opinions" in the prospectus forming a part of the Registration
Statement, without implying or admitting that we are "experts" within the
meaning of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission issued thereunder with respect to any part of the Registration
Statement, including this exhibit.

                                          Very truly yours,


                                          /s/ Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
                                          Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP