I use 15w 50 in my 90 300D. Seems to start in winter & I pound it on the highway 300+ miles a week so I like the 50. Been doing that for over 100k miles. On Apr 5, 2014 8:19 PM, "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com> wrote:
> Correction: 15W-50 > > Neem a number of years since I used the stuff. > > Dan > > > On Apr 5, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: > > > Yup, it's time. > > > > Just fishing for opinions. > > > > Both M119 powered cars have been running Mobil1 0W-40 European. Neither > is required to run it, as the spec came out well after both were in > production. 1998 was the beginning of the oil sensor crap, so the R129 > doesn't have it. > > > > In the hot summers of Florida it's not uncommon for the W140, which has > over 260,000 miles on it now, to have an idle oil pressure barely hitting > the 1.0 bar mark. It comes up as soon as you increase RPM and is pretty > well pegged after that. > > > > I'm wondering if I might get a little higher idle oil pressure if I > change to something like 20W-50, which is what I always ran in my MB > diesels down here. > > > > This viscosity is well within the operating temperatures listed in MBs > oil spec sheets, so I don't see a problem doing it. I'm just not sure I'll > really gain anything from it. I'm also not terribly keen about running an > oil with a bottom end of 0W in this climate. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Dan > > _______________________________________ > > 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 > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ 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 All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
