> .....RLE: Real life data for me, 39 years of driving diesel cars with > mechanical injection, primarily Mercedes Benz. Utterly reliable. Hundreds of > thousands of miles, maybe approaching a million of > reliable service. That is real life data.... > So then, all of the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of posts on the MB lists talking about cam chains, tensioners, head gaskets, bent rods, injectors, glow plugs, prechambers, algae and on and on are imaginary? But those are just general common MB diesel problems. The ones related to mechanical diesel injection such as the drive chain, the injectors and the prechambers and glow plugs all fail and even the pumps themselves have problems if we can believe the owners looking for help here. Your idea of "utterly reliable" seems a bit......flexible. > > ....Every gasser MB I have owned, I have had the pleasure(????) of > replacing the electronic black box. THAT is also real life data.... > Well, my 116, 202, 203 and 204 all had/have one form or another of electronic injection and there were zero repairs to those components during my ownership. I will admit that the little ignition box in my '72 250 did die soon after I sold the car to a friend at 65K miles.
Further, my '84 944, now nearly 27 years in my garage, has never had one single problem with either it's ignition or fuel systems and it's a second year Motronic. I did pull the injectors for rebuild about two years ago which consisted of cleaning out the internal muck and seeing that they operated properly and they then performed as new, as did the engine. I remember back when Ritter had his shop and was forever praising on his list the older cars that made him a wealthy man with never anything good to say about the later stuff. Now that's he's ten years out of the business, he is a bit more candid and isn't afraid to say good things about MB progress. He has also admitted that his 6.3 (about which we heard plenty of praise in those days) was seriously underbraked and could be a handful in a fast corner due to it's swing axle.. So, do you have shop catering to the more elderly diesels, then? RLE > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
