Curt, This all sounds like good news. With both my 240D and 300D 2.5t it took a lot of Italian tune-ups between here and Boston (75 miles) to get each of them quieted down. Where are you going in PA? What about a New England MB chowdahfest this summer? Dwight
Dwight Giles, Jr 1979 240D auto, 250K + miles 1990 300D 2.5t, 133K miles Wickford, RI Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:07 AM To: Diesel List Subject: [MBZ] 190D update While I feel like typing I thought I'd give an update on my 190D. When I first got it on cold startup it acted sort of odd, it'd start but idle really low for maybe 1/2 second and then come up to normal idle speed. Warm starts were fine. Now after around 7,000 miles 6,000 of that with Mobil 1 and most of it at full throttle that problem is pretty much gone, hit the key and its idling. Power has increased noticably and I ran a plot yesterday that shows a nice fuel mileage increase from around 34 average to 37+. We're going from MA to PA for a wedding next weekend and I plan to change the oil right after we get back, my theory being that the long highway run will help burn off more carbon to clean out. In the 6,000 miles I've added about 1/2 quart of oil wost of which I expect is because of pulling a sample for analysis. I still need to replace the passenger seat bottom with one Fred Moir gave me and figure out how to put in the antenna seal I bought from Rusty but overall I'm quite happy. Oh my wife had new tires put on it and had them nitrogen inflated, I can tell you I definately notice absolutely no difference. Of course the new tires are nice as they don't hydroplane so bad and don't squirm all over the road like the bad old ones do.... -Curt '85 190D "Dory" 240kmi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
