Rod bending has been discussed to death, do a search. Most seem to fail at lower mileage's. Actually two forum members in the past few months have had this happen to their cars. Mapleleaf (sp?) and dslbnz I think? Mercedes messed up they didn't make the connecting rods strong enough.

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