Just my opinion, your real problem is where you live, not your car...

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86 560SL
With homebrew first gear start!
85 380SL
Daily Driver Project

http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl/mercedes.htm

Everyone, we know that a diesel smokes naturally, no there's no need to get your pants in a bunch over a little letter, you know it doesn't apply to you, so just "fuhgeddaboudit!". They're going after the "clunkers".

They have that system here in TX. The SD has been reported, but not the D. I figure the best way to get back is to report every city transit and school bus you see, in addition to state and city government owned vehicles.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Not anymore....

Oh, I've seen brand new diesels putting out smoke. I've been seeing new VW Jetta TDIs with soot marks on their bumpers, and saw one put out a nice plume of smoke not even I could reproduce in my MB!

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

E320CDI's don't seem to smoke, or make much noise either.

I'd write a smart a** comment on the letter and send it back. The person who reported you was probably driving an H2, getting 9mpg and proud of it!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I'd be stalking their place of employment, and start writing complaints for each.

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79 300SD - $50 out of pocket purchase
03 Dodge Ram 3500 CTD
2003 VW Jetta TDI

Am gonna lay low. Replying to their survey is not mandatory. It's like the IRS -- best not to provoke 'em.

I once asked a CARB official if he drove a gas car. He said he did. I said, Well, consider that my diesel puts out more soot - or asthma- or cancer-causing particulate matter. And consider your gas car puts out more CO2, blamed for causing global warming. I said then you must agree: I may be killing L.A.; but you, my friend, are killing the World.

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'91 300D 2.5 Turbo 330K
'00 VW TDI Golf, 190K
'67 BMW R50/2
'73 Norton Commando Interstate

I'll bet the nimrod that complained about you wasn't riding a bicycle. Which makes them a hypocrit. Start a collection and wallpaper your garage like I hear someone did here.

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Is it R. Leo who's got the wallpaper made from these letters?

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

How true. I recieved one of those letters myself, i just tossed into the garbage.

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I'm sick of .sig files

The link above titled "Online Mercedes-Benz Service Library" seems promising, but when I go to the 300SD section, it will only go so far before bringing up a "not found" page. Anybody get this website to work?

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87 300D - Running on Veggie oil; 260,000 plus miles; Original #14 head

i like making clouds.. its fun.. especially uphill with a white honda civic behind you that appears to have been just washed and is still wet

I only got it to work if I used Internet Explorer to browse the stuff...firefox and that website don't seem to like one another.

I posted that in my sig because I had a hell of a time finding the link after the DIY sticky disappeared.

Apple Safari loaded all of the w126/OM617 sections fine.

A few days ago I was at a stoplight and this W123 wanted to enter the road from the parking lot. So I waved him over to go ahead of me. Guess what? I got smoked!

But I'd rather report that to you guys...

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