I know that there was a poll done for what brands of oil people here at mercedesshop use. Mobil and Castrol were the top 2. What I was curious about is for us diesel owners what are people using. To avoid an opinon war, I figured the best way would be to just list what brand you use, not why. For diesels the 4 brands I seem to keep seeing are Mobil Delvac, Shell Rotella (I'm using this now), Chevron Deleo 400, and Castrol GTX.
Again, I don't want to start a flaming war. As long as people just list the brand and not opinon, there shouldn't be any arguments, I hope. If I remember correctly Scott Longston uses not Mobil Delvac, but Mobil 1. Of course he can correct me if I am wrong on this.

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1999 MB SL500 (110,000 mi)
2004 Volvo V70 2.5T (220,000 mi)
2014 Tesla Model S 85 (136,000 mi)
MBCA member

Shell Rotella in my 240D.

Joe

Shell Rotella in my 240D.



Jackson

Shell Rotella in my 300D.

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Frank
84 500SEL EURO 101K ( JUST LIKE MY 1ST WIFE. GLAD TO GET RID OF HER! )
85 300D 310K (sold)
90 350SDL 184K sold
83 300D 118K (sold)
88 300E 153k (sold)
93 400E 105K (sold)

BP 10W40 (I don't know whether the US has BP or not...)

greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

Chevron Delo 400 in the 300D, Castrol 20-50W in the E320 and CRV (non-synthetic). Everything changed between 3 and 4k miles.
Jim
'85 300D 218k miles
'95 E320 106k
'97 Honda CRV 82k

Shell Rotella in my 300D

BTW, MBenz, congrats on your 1000th post!

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Matt
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1995 E300 Diesel (Die Blau Frau)

Shell Rotella-T w/ OEM filter every 3K.

Since I buy it by the case at BJ's, it goes in the Subaru too.

- Mark

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1987 300DT 127K
1987 300TDT 283K (Sold)
1999 528iTa 75K
1991 300D 2.5T 214K - Dead Tranny
1984 300DT 375K (Sold)

Synthetic... Mobile One... Hengst filter... just driven 3100 miles and haven't had to add any

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

Mobil Delvac-1 5w-40 full synthetic in both the '87
300TDT and '98 E300D. Sticking to the recommended
5K mile service interval on the '87, haven't completely
decided what to do about the FSS equipped '98.

- Jim

Rotella on '82 300SD every 2K

Rotella every 2k in my '85 300D too

Why so much Rotella, is this an east coast/mid west thing or am I missing something?

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Ed "Don't Benz's just feel better..."

Current wives...
2000 ML430 Skyview "The Mel"
2000 CLK430 Cab "The Cab"
85 300D Turbo "The Diesel"

Past wives...
92 300E
85 190E

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to
avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond
this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to
interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
Bertrand Russell

MLDUDE... For me, I buy Rotella because it is available at Walmart. If you go to Autozone or Advance Auto, the only C rated oil is some offbrand.

And I live in St. louis.

Joe

191,000 and dosent burn or leak!