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Originally Posted by pawoSD
When you think of how many OM642s are out there roaring around all day these failures amount to a fraction of a percent of total engines in operation....you never hear about all the ones running just fine.
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Yep I own 4 of them all doing fine, one of them up to 210k
Every day the FedEx and Amazon vans come through my neighborhood, a good many of them are Mercedes Sprinters and guess what's under the hood. Yep an OM642.
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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
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