I'm with Marshall on this one. I once took my 240D on a trip to Caribou, Maine. Once I got north of Bangor I drove for nearly 2 hours with my foot wedged firmly to the floor at ~87mph. The speed would drop some on large/long hills but my foot never moved. I did the same thing on the return trip. The car not only didn't seem to have any damage from it it seemed to run better. It did consume extra oil running wide open like that. -Curt Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:15:48 -0400 From: Marshall Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] My friend the Italian Tuneup To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
archer wrote: > Steve Auto Clinics in Zambia have a long and seemingly thorough discussion > of EGT versus engine life: > http://www.steves.co.za/Engine_Protection_Units_1.html >>From reading it I get the impression that the typical Italian Tuneup might > be somewhat risky. I've NEVER heard of an unmodified Mercedes diesel "burning" up from running at permissible loads. If it's dangerous, Mercedes either prevents it or tells you to NOT do it. All of the "melted" engines I know of came after people defeated the systems that controlled power output. I've NEVER heard of a Mercedes turbodiesel burning up from running flat out and I've driven dozens of 'em that way.! Marshall -- Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions) "der Dieseling Doktor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] '87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84 190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired) --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 03 13:37:22 2006 Received: from [70.184.21.144] (helo=[192.168.1.100]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FQPFB-0004uw-VH for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:37:22 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:37:09 -0500 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] my 190D X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:37:22 -0000 On mine, I have about 150 miles on the tank so far, and the guage is down to 1/4 tank. The guage HAS to be off. When i filled it up, it was all the way on empty but only took 6 gallons to fill up. Maybe I need to swap the sending unit out. Curt Raymond wrote: > I knew I was in trouble the next morning when at 489 miles showing on the > trip meter the car really didn't want to start. This car has always fired > immediately upon cranking. I got it started and gently drove to the nearest > gas station. Changed both fuel filters the next day. > > Yeah its a 2.2l 5spd. I was a bit ahead of myself saying 40mpg, it was more > like 38. > > -Curt > > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:25:45 -0500 > From: John Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] my 190D > To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 84 190D 2.2, 83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 81 240D, 76 450SEL, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 72 250C, 69 250 http://www.striplin.net
