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Originally posted by Ali Al-Chalabi
And I would not consider 75k miles to be anything near high mileage for a Mercedes.
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I find we MB nuts have a different idea of what "high" means when talking mileage. Yesterday I took a friend of mine for a quick drive in the 190E to pick up some stuff. He was shocked when he saw the odo reading 260K, and nearly fainted when I told him that the original odo had been replaced at 122K, and so the real mileage was over 380,000km's.
We pulled onto the highway and I ripped the six through the gears. She pulled strong and snapped off shifts whipping the speedo to 120 km/h without hesitation. He was even more surprised when I explained that the car had few repairs in it's life and the driveline had never been opened.
On any MB diesel, M103, M104, M119 or M111, I think "high" miles is probably north of 400,000kms (250K-miles). 75,000 miles is barely broken in. If you think that is hyperbole, you're wrong. The M111 in the C230 is just a few miles short of 100K-miles, and it is startin to get really good city driving mileage, like an engine that is just getting seated in.
Those "high mileage" oils are marketed to Neon owners, as 75K-miles is stretching it for those things...
