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Originally posted by P.E.Haiges
If the car runs all day at 80 MPH, there is nothing wrong with the fuel filters and replacing them would be a waste of money and time. Filters do not clog proportional to time but to the contaminates in the fuel. If there were no contaminates in the fuel, the filters would last forever.
The theory that filters have to be clean to work is a lot of bunk. They work perfectly up to the time they will not pass enough fuel for full power operation of the engine.
P E H
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Well, this is like the sine vs. dino oil posts. I must disagree. The new 240D would run at 80 MPH all day. But at speed when pressing on the accelerator to accelerate more, I know not much more accelerating left in a 240D, the engine would "miss". I cleaned all the filters. Fuel tank screen almost completely blocked. Inline and main filter had sludge in it, algae. After changing the filters and installing new fuel the car ran perfect.
I do feel his problem is multifacited. Fuel, glowplugs, valves, injectors may be dirty. Compression may be a factor, but if the other items are sound I don't see the car not starting all of a sudden over a 4 week period.
It will be intersting to see what the cause is!!!
Dave
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1970 220D, owned 1980-1990
1980 240D, owned 1990-1992
1982 300TD, owned 1992-1993
1986 300SDL, owned 1993-2004
1999 E300, owned 1999-2003
1982 300TD, 213,880mi, owned since Nov 18, 1991- Aug 4, 2010 SOLD
1988 560SL, 100,000mi, owned since 1995
1965 Mustang Fastback Mileage Unknown(My sons)
1983 240D, 176,000mi (My daughers) owned since 2004
2007 Honda Accord EX-L I4 auto, the new daily driver
1985 300D 264,000mi Son's new daily driver.(sold)
2008 Hyundai Tiberon. Daughters new car
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