What are you going to do when a tire blows and sends you all over the road, and causes the minivan with 4 kids in it to serve and flip over in the ditch.....

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1985 300TD Turbo Euro-wagon
1979 280CE 225,200 miles
1985 300D Turbo 264,000 miles
1976 240D 190,000 miles
1979 300TD 220,000

GONE but not forgotten
1976 300D 195,300 miles
1983 300D Turbo 175,000 miles

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Can't that happen at 75 MPH?

I'll do the same thing I would do if I was going 65, 75, 85, 95 or 115.

What would you do?

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1993 W124 300D
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The faster you are going at the time of a blowout or problem, the more likely that it ends badly. Duh.

Taking a car that fast without everything in top shape and checked out beforehand is dangerous and unwise. Especially in an area with a lot of traffic. Maybe next time a cop will catch you and put you behind bars....it will be deserved.

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'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)

So you are suggesting that we lower the speed limits nation wide to 30 mph?

Too bad there aren't any cops interested in taking whiny little girls off the streets.

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1993 W124 300D
-297K on the clock as I type this.

I got to legally do 120 on the autobahn recently and it felt like it was reaching it's limit. I realised driving at high speeds for long periods is what these cars are designed to do, safely -the engines really come in to their own once they're wound up past 3000 revs

btw, I've had a blow-out at 80mph and I didn't even realise I had a flat at first as the car handled so well. Not something that I'd particularly like to repeat though...

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1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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111 mph, '95 E300D, rural Nevada. No minivans, no kids, no women drivers. No drama. Then I stood on the brakes, just to see what would happen.

Seems like this thread has too many comments from east coast and upper MW drivers, used to low speed limits, rough roads and rusted out hulks, roads clogged with semis, etc.

The stretch of road the OP is talking about probably has an average speed in the upper 80s. There are many roads out west with 80 mph speed limits, where average speeds are near 90, the road surface is as smooth as glass, your in a dry desert with 100 mile visibility, etc.

I suspect much of the instability problem he felt while performing this run had to do with the famous down-slope wind you get on the east side of the Rockies.

My 240D feels perfectly stable at 90, and I get passed by many cars when I'm driving that fast out here in the wide open west.

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1991 300D 2.5 - Smokes like it's on Crack!