Larry for the amount you drive a gasser probably makes more sense than a diesel, it's hard on a diesel not being driven hard regularly. Don't be afraid of a gasser, Dwight has one and likes it.
Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Thanks! Since it caused a Fire Risk wouldn't it be eligible for a Federal Recall? Isn't that what recalls are for? (BTW, I'm not giving you a hard time, just trying to understand.) Hmm - with this added (and much appreciated) information we may have to consider another car. I would hate to do that because it's so hard to find MB Diesels around here (~Richmond, Va) . Have been looking for almost a week and only came up with 2 - the 99 and the 09. My wife has suffered with old cars for a long time and is digging her heels in at nothing older than a '00. Not too big a demand since that might be 18 yrs old. ;-) If the 09 is a non-starter I may have to start considering Camrys and Accords! Course, since I may have to consider a gasser maybe i can find a MB gasser? Does anyone know if the ~'09 (I'll also look for 05 and 06) gasser MB engines have the same oil cooler seal problems? Thanks again! Ya'll have provided such great info over the years - you have saved me buckets of $$'s! ;-) LarryT On 12/10/2017 12:26 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote >> On December 10, 2017 at 11:42 AM Larry Turner via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> Thanks Gang, >> >> A couple more questions please, Is it a problem that affects all >> 3.0L V6 Turbo's of that vintage? If so I would hope it would create a >> Recall (he said hopefully) ;-) > Hard to say 'it caused a risk of fire, and it had less than 200,000 miles on > it'. I'd assume the average failure point is way beyond MBZ's responsibility. > > The 94-99 E300Ds were OM606, that's the OM603 from the 87 300D and the 86-87 > SDL, but with a 24v head on it. The 98-99 cars were turbocharged and > intercooled, the last and the best of the indirect injection engines. > And the earliest CDIs (05-06) were also inline 6, I don't know if they share > any architecture with the 603. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
