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Originally Posted by LarryBible
Duke,
The problem with ATF came about in the late eighties, early nineties when ATF went through a radical change. Earlier cars had seals that worked okay with early ATF, but once ATF changed it was bad for the seals. After awhile the manufacturers changed seals in many cars to a material that would not be attacked by modern ATF.
I believe that generic p/s fluid is safe for most any MB, but if you desire to run the MB stuff and don't want to be out all that extra money during the entire flushing procedure, I would recommend that you flush with the generic stuff and then once you seal everything back up, fill it up with MB fluid.
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But according to the service products list posted by Kestas, Dexron III can be substitued for the 000 989 88 03 MB PS fluid that I think is correct for my '88, so that means my choices are the above MB fluid, Dexron III or commercially available PS fluid(?) From your explanation the implication is that Dexron III should not be used in my model.
I'm sorry to beat this to death, but the signals are very mixed.
BTW, how many miles/years on the commercial PS fluid do you have on your 300E?
As a related question, just out of curiosity, most commercial PS fluids say not to use them in Hondas, and I've seen some "Honda specific" commercially available PS fluids at Macparts. Anyone know the story on this situation? Maybe it can shed some light.
Duke