Thread: New E class CDI
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Old 08-25-2007, 03:31 PM
DslBnz DslBnz is offline
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Originally Posted by nhdoc View Post
Those engines, even with the hood up are amazingly quiet...there is NO clatter. I just looked at one of the new Bluetec engines and listened to it with the hood up and couldn't tell it was a diesel. The salesman didn't even know it was a V6 as opposed to the CDI I-6, so I taught him a few things.
You need to take off the engine cover. There's a giant foam blanket that helps to muffle the clatter (it can also gets ruined when the high pressure rail develops leaks).
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