I like doing that..

I does piss me off when people pull in front of the open diesel pump to pump gas when there are many other gas pumps open. On the other hand I do get some 4X4's that get antsy when they see I pull up there and give me stink-eye until they find out I'm pumping diesel. I liked it alot more in my older wagon with higher miles. I usually tell them now that I hope their truck looks as good as my car 25 years from now... and welcome to world of diesel, rookie.

Everybody talks about filling up with 16 gallons, 18 gallons, etc... am I the only one that calls a typical fill-up 21 and has managed to throw 24 in at once before?

I always try to pull in next to other Benzes when I see them filling up - my pet peeve is stations that have two pumps that share diesel with gas, and then fifteen other gas only pumps.

Like any other diesel, I usually leave it idling as I fuel - which always gets stares from the gasser people who never worked with diesels before.

It's all worth it to be able to use the truck sized nozzle on pumps that have both. Fills up in about half the time.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

I could fill up my 116 and 123 at the truck pump but not the 124, found out after i swiped my credit card.

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1959 Gravely LI, 1963 Gravely L8, 1973 Gravely C12
1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

I've yet to fill up my 300d, I don't know what type milage I'm getting. I think it's a 17 gallon tank. By my math I am currently only getting 23-26 mpg, is that normal?

Every time i have fueled it up I've been asked if I knew what I was doing. The prepay crap is why I have yet to do a complete top off.

Wonder why your 124 uses a different tank than my 126 gen 2? Same era... would have thought they used the same tank. Maybe not. If it was me I'd re-use all possible parts.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

Last month I was filling the the 190D and I had to different guys come up and tell me that diesel cannot be put in a gas car. It was really nice when I explained it was a diesel. They probably told me this since I look like a naive 16 year old

I have sworn off talking to anybody at the pump since I put gas in my cummins the second time.

Actually I chat with other diesel heads all the time at the pumps. Usually swapping war stories about fuel mileage.

Once I was dropping one of my kids off at a friend's house and hppened to have the fog lights on in one of my 123s and a fellow pulled up next to us in an older sd and said "you can't run those driving lights here, they are autobahn lights and are illegal here....(very authoritative voice) " I am thinking (WTF?) then I just said "OH, THANKS". And wondered which planet he was from.

I do not ever (well, almost never) get into shouting matches with strangers....you never know what they may have in their jacket (heat) or if they are certifiable.

ONce at my usual pump a fellow was filling his powerjoke and spent a good ten minutes burping it about thirty times.....finally I asked him why and he said that if he did that he could make it up to chicago and back without an intermediate fill with his largish trailer.

I just fill it til it clicks off and pay. Who cares if you squeeze a few extra miles on a tank? I haven't got time to spend burping it and spilling fuel on mycar or myself.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I'm a young-looking 18, so I figured I'd be a candidate for that... I've spent every fuel-up waiting for a moment like that just for the... fun of it. Guess the fact that I leave it running lets people know it's a diesel.

I also have yet to enjoy the "That engine sure sounds rough, you need to have it worked on" moment.

These things always happen to everybody else

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

I don't know people usualy don't talk to me at the pump. Maybe because I jump out swipe the card, and get out of their ASAP. Also people in CT generally don't talk to eachother, were not friendly like down south.

What does piss me off are the morons that sit their gas car in front of the diesel pump then go inside to buy stupid crap leaving there gas car their. One guy had his little SUV thing pulled back really far and I am waiting like WTF. So I get pissed and just back to within an inch of his bumper, get out swipe the card and start filling. Fat POS comes out when I am just about done, and is like WTF, I said your fat *** is blocking the pump go F yourself.

The truck stop where I get fuel is a freak show thats for sure. Thats why I use the credit card, if I pay cash I have to go inside, with them! Get stuck behind a trucker buying lotto tickets and you are going to be standing their for awhile.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I don't live close enough to an interstate to even have a truck stop that's within an economical distance to stop there. Most folks are pretty nice. The worst you get is the "why are you talking to me" stare usually.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

I've encountered both types, the ones who think I'm putting diesel in a gas car and the ones who notice I'm pumping diesel and strike up a conversation.

One time I was filling at the truck pump and a box truck pulls up to the opposite side. The guy gets out, notices what I'm doing, and says "Does that Benz run better on diesel or something?" I said "Yes it does as a matter of fact." He looked at the car funny and then I told him it had a diesel engine

Another time I was filling at a neighborhood station that was surprisingly cheap when a lady in an ML pulls up to the opposite pump. She gets out and looks at the car, notices how I'm filling with diesel and complements how nice it is and says how her parents have diesel MB's. We chat about MB's for a bit until the nozzles click off and we bid eachother good day and went on our way.

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1990 300D 2.5 Turbo -155k
2000 E430 - 103k
2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel 4x4 - 11k
2014 VW Passat TDI SE - 7k Bro's Diesel
2006 E320 CDI - 128k Pop's Benz

Pre-glow - A moment of silence in honor of Rudolph Diesel

haha sweet sweet diesel....
Yeah ive always wanted some idiot to tell me im putting diesel in my car, ocassionally a "pay first" gas station "which i was actually accused of stealing diesel from, but i really didnt, that im not allowed to use anymore according to the the owner, WTF" they used to question me about putting diesel in my car.
I like it when i pull up to a diesel pump whitch is in the same row as a gas pump, and some bastard pulls there car to far forward to the point where it is almost at the next pump.
I had some lady do that to me, she was sitting in her car while her gas was pumping and i pulled up about 2in. away from her front bumper.I got the nastiest face ever and i could read the cussing coming off her lips as she actually started to back up with the nozzle still in the tank pumping fuel. When i got out of the car, she got out a moment later and looked at me and i gave her hell and told her to go F herself.
Me and my buddy were crackin up about the situation

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82' 300SD

I haven't been to the truck stop in a while. My usual #2 diesel spot has like 10 pre pay diesel pumps for big rigs and 2 card swipe diesel pumps shared with the gas pumps, it has some of the cheapest ULSD in town (not as cheap as B99 though). Rarely was I in line waiting for someone or vice versa. Though, the receipt machine was always broken and you'd have to wait for the person in front of you to go inside and get their receipt or they'd have to wait for me. You couldn't pull off and then get the receipt because I think the info would've been erased if someone else pulls up and starts filling. But unlike you vile and impatient east coasters, Texans are generally laid back and patient and don't drop F-word bombs on someone filling up or getting a receipt (generally cause you never know who's carrying "heat" down here) I've never had any "incidents" at the pump. I met a lady in a W210 E300 who was trying to burp the tank to fill to the rim (she said she was going to quit if she hit the $50 mark, lol). After striking up a conversation and learning that her husband had a gasser W140, I tried to get her and her husband to join MBCA. I don't know if they joined though. A police officer gave me a compliment on the 300D while he filled his gasser pickup, and he told me how he read up on MB diesels online. I asked him if he was lurking this forum, he said he didn't know the name of the sites he'd visited, but he liked the cars. Then, a guy was with his family filling up next to me at a newer station and his little boy must've seen the diesel pump next to their gas pump and asked his dad "Do they have diesel cars?" His dad said "Yes, that man's car there is a diesel" (I felt so smug, lol). When I was with the SD once, a guy asked me if I wanted to sell it, I told him no, and that's about it. I now go to the local biodiesel retailer. They sell ASTM-D6751 certified B99 for about 30-40 cents less than the area's most expensive ULSD retailers. It's only a single pump, rarely do you have more than two folks at a time there, but if so we all wait our turn patiently because us Texans are cool like that.

I know everyone hates a gas station with like a million gas pumps and 2 diesel pumps. They built a new station that had diesel available at EVERY pump (that's the place where the little boy asked his dad about diesel cars). I loved it, it had a store inside that made fresh sub sandwiches, had a coffee shop in it and sold other neat things. It's called Buc-ee's. Too bad it's like $3.15/gal now compared to $2.99/gal B99, so bye bye sandwiches!

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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.

Once while we were on vacation I was filling up the E300; as soon as I clicked open the nozzle the attendant came flying out the front door screaming "NOOO, that's diesel!!! You'll ruin your engine!!!"
Must've figured Mercedes stopped building diesels back in the 80's...no way this shiny black Mercedes could be an oilburner.

I just smiled and told her I knew what I was doing.

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99 E300 TD -- sold
01 540i 6 spd