I suppose it is unjustifiable to expect that a car that cost 60k+ when new wouldn't have an expensive issue 15 years later. I wonder what the numbers actually are on the rod bending, ie. how many of the total production of 350SDs developed bent rods as opposed to the number one would expect from a normal production run. Probably no way to find out. Also interesting
that MB would deny a problem existed if it were verifiable. It would be easy for MB to do some follow up research with the relatively small mumber of cars
we're deaing with to see if something is really amiss or if MB customers are just noisier than others when it comes to their cars. I guess if your reputation is based on claims of superior engineering and manufacturing,you'd better be ready for some heat when something like this crops up.

As far as the particular car I'm looking at, I'm probably more concerned about the head work holding up than a rod bending. Also the PO was a huge smoker and the smell is not going to come out of the otherwise perfect interior very easily. What amazed me most though is how nice these 126 bodies are. I allways kind of ignored them as being a little too big, but now I regret not
getting one a long time ago.

Steve