Just like the early aluminum block Vegas, virtually all of them outlasted the factory warranty by a good margin.
I can't remember if there was a lawsuit, but when Ford had a similar issue with 3.8L head gaskets except it was from warped heads not gasket design, they did an official program to extend the warranty to 6 years or 100k. Mine lost its front gasket at about 130k and six years, the rear gasket a year or two later at 160k. The 2nd time around I had time to pull both heads and have them milled flat and a valve job done like I should have done in the first place. I just find it easy to be lazy when laziness saves me (temporarily in this case) from pulling the rear head on a transverse Vee engine. I hate V6s and V8s turned sideways. Was Wilton's rodbender still under warranty when it ate its timing chain, or did it get fixed under a goodwill policy? (IIRC MBUSA did admit to a bunch of defective timing chains in the early 1990s) Mitch. > On January 30, 2017 at 6:36 PM Larry Turner via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > I seem to recall this list saying all the W140s with diesel engines will > fail with the #1 or #2 cylinder going oval or some other terminal > problem - how did MB manage to keep the problem becoming a forced Recall > of all affected cars? Was it a time limit thing? _______________________________________ 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
