What Rick and Curt said. These cars are built to a very different standard than you're used to. While we all chuckle at the "million mile engine" claims in CL ads, there's a lot more truth to that than many might believe.
Your car is barely broken in. Short of a catastrophic failure, to go out and try to find a back up drive train is false economy, as it's unlikely you'll ever need it. Now I certainly wouldn't discourage someone from trying to find a tired OM617 they can disassemble and rebuild as a learning experience and potential backup if ever needed, but to purposely seek a drive train as a spare would be silly, in my opinion, not to mention a waste of resources. My 350SDL just turned 269,000 miles. Compression is great, it doesn't leak or burn oil, and other than having a little delay when engaging reverse, everything is in great working order. As long as I maintain it well there's no reason why it wouldn't go another 260k or more without major work. I'm not about to tie up coin in a spare engine or transmission when there's no need. -D Sent from my iPad > On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Theres no reason a gas powered car can't go 200,000 miles, then have top end > work and go another 200,000 miles. > You've been lied to your whole life about how often you need to replace your > car... > -Curt > > From: Kyle Arola via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Kyle Arola <kylearola1...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Craigslist NC Florida > > I guess I am just not used to thinking of a drive train lasting an > additional 600,000 miles in addition to the already almost 300k on it now! > Hahaha! That would be amazing to be sure! I know there are OTR truckers > that get 1 million miles on their rigs, and I am guessing their diesels are > similar engineering wise as far as robustness goes... > > Just a paradigm shift in thinking for me as I am part of the throwaway > generation and have been taught to replace my car every 80k miles, or 10 > years at most! > > Kyle > > On Feb 9, 2017 12:10 PM, "Rick Knoble via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Kyle sez: > >> True, I am counting on the last and last part. I also want to be prepared >> so that in another 100k miles I have the engine/transmission to replace and >> get another 500k miles out of the wagon. > > If you do proper maintenance and repairs, the wagon > should last your lifetime. The period for catastrophic failures > from manufacturing defects is long over. > > You just have to stay on top of things and use premium parts > for maintenance and repairs. Rust is not an issue for > you, so no problem there. > > Rick > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
