I still get a laugh out of the sticker on the hydrogen contraption......

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Owen

87 300TD 603 I-6
94 Jeep XJ I-6 4.0 (see the pattern)
89 750il
seventy-two hundred feet above sea level (kinda cold up here)

I have not seen the episode but if anything they managed to take a complicated subject and present it in a way that would be digestable by an audience that can only maintain concentration on any given subject for 5-10 minutes.

I wanna keep getting WVO for FREE! if everybody and their cousin starts doing it, they're gonna start charging for it!@O*$&)@#
John

too late. i noticed in the last year probly 100 new members that were only interestd in wvo and biodiesel. it gets annoying when thats all people want these cars for

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Personally, that's what got me into driving a diesel Benz, as they are the most numerous type after 20 years of driving. But think of it this way -- all these people who will start filling their tanks with cold WVO will drive their cars into the ground quickly and make what's left over very valuable. And we can all say "told you so".

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

That's why I got the car. My brother showed me how to convert it to run on wvo and I was just intending to beat on it back and forth to college for a few years. Fortunately, before I got the wvo kit hooked up I found this site, which gave me more appreciation for the car than I could have gotten on my own. Now I appreciate them for what they are and I'm pleased with myself because I know if all my wvo sources dried up tomorrow, I'd still be driving these cars. I've added two other W123's to my stable since then and I'll be looking at another this afternoon.

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Seth

1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

I want mine for the 920+ miles per week I will start putting on it in three weeks. My driving profile is perfect for SVO. I get in on Monday morning, drive it for 460 miles, and then use it in town through Thursday. Thrusday afternoon I get in and drive it 460 miles back home. I'll use it on SVO/WVO for the 460 miles trips. I'll use diesel/biodiesel on startup, shutdown, and while driving around town.

Now all I need is a new driver's seat. The thigh supports are flat worn out. Any ideas on where to get a seat? How about getting this one repaired/repadded/recovered?

-Jim
1987 300D Separate tank heated SVO/WVO

i want mine for driving on DIESEL, LIKE IT WAS MEANT TOO. it pisses me off that once fuel prices rise, everyone wants an old mercedes and then this forum explodes with tons of new members that only wanna know about bio and wvo. on top of that they dont search!!! everyday theres another post about wvo and how someone wants to convert. if i had some bio i might run it once in a while. veggie? hell no not unless i was out of fuel and there wasnt a diesel station around.

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have no worries.....President Obama swears "If you like your gun, you can keep it

to add to that, i bought my first mercedes diesel when i was 15.

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have no worries.....President Obama swears "If you like your gun, you can keep it

I agree, I run mine on diesel, it has the most power on it, and is what the MB engineers designed it for. When people like Adam and Jamie on the mythbusters take an old MB diesel and say "look! you can dump cooking oil right in and go for free!" it makes tons of crazy people line up looking for these cars, then they try it, ruin it, and send it to the scrap-yard, with 0 appreication for the car itself and thereby taking tons of these cars out of existence and making it harder for the people that appreciate them to find any nice examples anymore.

I burn almost 80 gallons of diesel a month usually, and am perfectly glad to run it on diesel. I've been on the highway with veg oil when I tried a tank to see how it was. Acceleration is lost by about 15% from a standstill, and highway passing power is probably 20% less. Plus, I don't fully trust that it doesn't hurt the engine. When I have seen pictures of a teardown of a MB engine that was run 75-100k+ on veg oil then I'll believe its safe and worth it.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Well get used to it... send them over to www.bidiesel.infopop.cc. That is where I go for my Bio/SVO questions and comments. I come here for Mercedes specific info. Put a sticky up with the link.

Sounds to me that you are just mad about the increased demand and rising prices for your obsession. I don't blame you. I was a little pissed about manual transmission Jetta TDI's selling for 3000-4000 over the person to person prices. I got over it. I got a Mercedes.

-Jim

It was a good show, remember it was was writen for the average moron.

I agree completly kmaysob, I hate seeing perfectly good MB's trashed because of botched WVO experiments.

I wanted a diesel Mercedes when I was 15 and fuel was still cheap. I want a Mercedes and I want it to be diesel, I couldn't care less about WVO and such. If fuel was $1.50 a gallon agian, I'd still be driving my diesel MB, and all the WVO cars would be rotting in a field.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Rudolf diesel did not design our engine, he designed his....the engines in our cars came many years later, and were designed to run petrol diesel fuel.

As for using a lot of diesel, I can't really afford it, but I have no choice, as there's no WVO around here and for my purposes I'd need the full heated tank system anyways, which would cost $$$$ that I don't have. Too many obstacles to use it. As for biodiesel, I did run it, but it is only 3-5 cents less a gallon around here for B20 (the highest blend available at a pump) B100 is only available by delivery in orders of 180 gallons or more, price? $3.50 a gallon

The one station that has the B20 (and delivers B100) is 12 miles from my house, utterly not worth it, it'd cost $3 just to go fill it up.

If diesel goes above about $3.30ish a gallon I'll switch to Sams Soy oil blend again. I have a rewards card for my gas station that takes about 12 cents a gallon off, so right now the 2.99 only costs me about 2.87 or so.....

I support the wvo idea, I just can't really take part in it.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)