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To: ChanceIs who wrote (171038)	12/12/2008 10:25:45 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Excellent choice for a vehicle. Those Mercedes diesels really do last for decades. Your car frame could be rusted to dust and the engine will still be running. I don't know of anyone who can even come close to Mercedes when it comes to diesels.

To: ChanceIs who wrote (171038)	12/12/2008 10:30:45 PM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

When I change spark plugs I coat the threads with anti-seize lubricant. What was your fuel mileage with the 300 SD and the 300E ?

To: ChanceIs who wrote (171038)	12/13/2008 2:08:20 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

OT/ Mercedes diesels >>> "In actuality, I am a little POed at Mercedes these days. My 1995 E300 with 170K miles on it needed new glow plugs - two out of six were bad - runs rough for a bit on these cold mornings. Nothing wrong with glow plugs failing after that long. Problem is that the idiot who had the car before me never replaced them so they were frozen in the head. Bad design on Mercedes part. I had to have the head taken off and it is in a machine shop where the machinist is even having trouble with it. Grrrrrr." <<< If you make it too lose, exhaust gases can blow past, and you may lose compression, or the gases will erode or short the plug. 20 years ago in Daimler Benz engineering - "Dieter ! Make sure we make the threads with enough tolerance so that the glow plugs can be removed at 200,000 kilometers, even if some idiot forgets to replace them at 100,000 kilometers." Meanwhile, in the US, we were working on a better idiot... Go figure you cost per mile, and you won't be PO ;-)