Has anyone got any feedback on the cdi's...how they are holding up quality wise? Would the only drawback to purchasing one be on the pricey sticker?

Isn't that reason enough??
There quality has been crap for over 10 years. No reason to think it is getting better as Chrysler gets in deeper and deeper.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Simplicity. There is 1000x more junk to break on a CDI and many components are fragile electronics. Let's compare engines.

300D on the left, 320 CDI on the right.

The 2006 E320 CDI with the I-6 CDI is the newest MB I would ever consider.

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The one on the right is the new V-6 CDI correct.

Yes. Compare it to the relative simplicity of the 05-06 Inline-6 CDI.

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Yall help me out. I swear I can't find the engine on that newest CDI pic. (V-6) Is it down under all that stuff?????????

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Still can't see much of an engine anywhere, I looked at it long and hard... I do see two belt pulleys....just barely though.

Here's the pic with me pointing out what I think things are....I am probably wrong on some.

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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)

80,000-100,000 miles before rebuild here for the C220 here in India, not bad as compared to other CDI engines from likes of VW etc.

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99 Gurkha with OM616 IDI turbo

2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT

The one on the bottom right is the oil filter.

There are two (2) air filters on there.

The power steering reservoir is right above it, too.

Wow!! Forget about the miti-vac's on that motor...and get hi-tech. From the original article I read when they were first introduced, it said that they were the fastest diesel's ever produced. I would definitely miss all that pre-ignition owning one of them.

hey you old men (previous comments), don't be afraid of technology, unless you're 80 years old, you're going to have suck it up and just be cool with the fact that complication does not equal evil.

100 years ago you all would have been *****in about these compression engines and how whacky they are compared to your simple little horse carriage.

I would give my 80 TD, my 86 VW and my 87 TD for a CDI wagon. Oh wait, that's not even close to enough...

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

It isn't the technology, chief. It's reliability and handing a factory mechanic huge piles of $$$$$ that is scary.
Perkins, you were makin perfect sense up to and through the old men part. Then the crappage started.......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

heh, so my first two word were clear? awesome

there's people who are anti "new cars" and this group has quite a few of 'em (the W123 diehards). Not a big deal but it just makes me laugh a little bit.

Reminds me of the air-cooled crowd from my days of VW shows and swap meets. Those people hated (and still do) water-cooled VW's just because they had the extra complication of water.

I'm just messing with you guys though, been drinkin' some wine and feeling a little saucy

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

So Subaru stole the design, improved it a bit and it's been successful ever since.