The dealer service advisor has the form for the high mileage award. 250/500/750 km and 1 million miles.

I agree with your other points. Ours drives great and pulls trailers like nobody's business.

Have you had issues with oil leaks? Mine was starting to leak the tar on the ground, found the orange boot between the $500 Y-pipe and the turbo inlet was torn. Replaced that (~$20 part) and the leaks seem to be diminishing. Need to go in there and clean out behind the under body pans, just need to find time to do that. Knock on wood my oil cooler is holding up for now.

In the ML range, the last year without AdBlue and real tires is 2008. Hence that is why I own that year model. DEF aka "cat pee" is a joke. We have to deal with that on generators in the more "enlightened" states. Stuff stinks just like a tom cat sprayed all over the inside of the generator house.

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech