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Originally Posted by kerry
Was it just to make the car seem more modern and appealing to the uninformed driver? It wasn't an NA/Turbo change since the 116's with the 617 turbos still had manual idle control.
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It is hard to say what motivates Mercedes to do stuff. However, the dash does look cleaner without the knob.
I have not seen any Diesel Vehicle that has such an idle control device on it except possible Boats. Other Diesel Cars don't seem to have them and don't appear to need them.
My Volvo had a thermostatically controlled gizmo for cold starting connected to the coolant.