The best way to find empty is to leave your cell phone home, come to North Carolina in August and drive until the car quits. Walk to the gas station, get some gas or diesel and walk back. When this happened to me, I found out that empty is whenever the guage goes below 1/4 tank it is time for a fuel stop, empty or not.

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84 500 SEL (307,xxx miles)

The other than US versions of the w210 chassis came with a minimum 60 liter capacity. The US market usually gets all the luxuries and by default get the 80 liter tank. From what I read the smaller 60 or 65 liter unit has a square in the middle of it to allow for a "ski-boot" like access to the rear seat....

Correct me if I'm wrong someone.

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#dieselFLEET
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'97 E300
'99 E300

I have got 24 before when it was running on fumes at the pump. That is with slowly pushing 4 gals in after it clicks off.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

If there is any, I suppose. Aren't the tanks gravity fed tho? IIRC, there is a sock filter at the bottom and we attached the lines from the bottom.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Empty on my '99 W210 TD is slightly below the 1/4 tank tickmark, but above where the (alleged) low fuel warning light comes on.

Not on mine.

AFAIK, my '96 has a 65 liter tank (per owner's manual -- 16.4 gallons). Perhaps they went to a larger size in 1998?

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

......when pump cut-off @ $75.00 worth of diesel. --22.734 gallons. Wasn't empty yet!

The 98-99 is a 70L tank with an additional 10L reserve for 80L/21.1 gals total.

Anoyne who has put more in is mistaken or a mech has run compressed air in the tank in a vain attempt to push fuel up to the IP and blown out the alumimun walls of the tank.

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Terry Allison
N. Calif. & Boca Chica, Panama

09' E320 Bluetec 77k (USA)
09' Hyundai Santa Fe Diesel 48k (S.A.)

24 gallons, is what I believe it takes from dry.

915 fuel tank, 70 liter (с 01.05.1988)

That is basically 18.5 Gallons. So that does not make any sense. I was thinking it was 20 gallons plus the reserve personally.

I now have purposefully brought more confusion than clarification.

If it were not snowing I would wander out to the shop and check the owners manual.

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raMBow

1999 E300DT Obsydian Black Metallic, Heated Full Leather Parchment options, E2, K2, 136,000+, best 36.5 mpg - GP's 12-04 & 11-12 Zero Stuck
2010 Honda Odyssey - The BrideMobile - best 26.5
(2) 2005 Honday Accord- (1 -Corporate 1 - Personal) - 110,000 4-cyl 30mpg
2000 VW Golf GLS TDI, Upsolute Chip (sold to Brother, now 300+k on it) 48.5 mpg like clock work
1987 Honda CRX HF - Sold 87,000 always over 50 mpg Max 67 mpg

Im poor. I havent seen my tank over 1/2 in probably two months. I always run In reserve, carrying two gallons of diesel in my trunk with me at all times.

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1981 300SD 512k OM603