Yes it’s a great car and it gets periodic thumbs up while I drive it. The engine purs, gets great fuel mileage and the chassis handles very well and feels solid like it was carved from a block of steel. It was designed by legend (Bruno Sacco) not by the nobodies who design today’s garbage cars. There is one out there on fakebook somewhere with over a million miles.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 21, 2022, at 8:45 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > although my 90 300D OM 602 2.5t was a great engine. Dimitri is still > driving it. doesn't need valve adjustments like the OM61x > >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 1:50 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I have had this feeling but not based on any real data. >> >> The older diesels are so simple. They just need fuel and good compression >> and they will run. They don't need a computer, or even a working >> battery/alternator. >> >> The complexity of the new diesels is all about reducing the particulate >> emissions, something that gas vehicles really don't have to worry about. >> >> I probably would not buy a modern diesel car, as much as I like my OM617s. >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, at 1:31 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes wrote: >>> I saw a 2012 E350 BlueTec, 103k miles, show up at a Subaru dealer here. >>> Ran it to ground and in the process talked to the shop that performed >>> all its services. The dude‘s shop makes its living servicing and >>> repairing Mercedes’. We talked diesels in general and he revealed to >>> me his love of older MB diesels. He told me the car in question is >>> squared away. He told me everything he has done to it, he even sent me >>> its complete service history. Then in the very next breath he told me >>> that I should run away from “modern Mercedes diesels”. He has years of >>> empirical data and it shows that people will spend almost exactly twice >>> as much $$ to correctly maintain one of these “modern diesels” as >>> people will spend to correctly maintain the gas version, same model. >>> >>> AZBob >> >> _______________________________________ >> 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
