I've spent about six weeks of the last four months in Europe, and the sighting of a 123 car was very rare.

For whatever reason, you just don't see very many of them on the road.

Additionally a US Diesel has an American Bosch injection pump. It's a different animal , made in a different plant. I don't know if this has anything to do with it. But, I do know that the American Bosch pumps were failing about five years ago, when they lowered the sulpher content in diesel fuel in this country.

Good luck,

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Larry Bible
'01 C Class, Six Speed
'84 Euro 240D, 523K miles
'88 300E 5 Speed
'81 300D Daughter's Car
Over 800,000 miles in
Mercedes automobiles