Smoking BENZ wagon and I do mean smoking. This has been a reliable great car for me and my family. The problem started last May when I ran out of fuel at 5 o'clock in the morning on my way to work. Well I was on final written warning for time and attendance, I had a gas can but the closest station didn't have diesel. So like a idiot I got a coupled bucks worth of regular unleaded GASOLINE. Well it started right back up and seemed to be raring to go, for some strange reason I felt that if I drove like a bat out of hell not only would I be on time to work but it would do less damage to the engine.
Got to work on time all seemed to be OK. At lunch I borrowed a co worker's car went and bought a new gas can filled it up with diesel. Then drained the fuel tank's contents into the old gas can (smelled like a combo of diesel and gas) put the straight diesel into the tank. It started right up and ran w/o issue for about a week then all of a sudden from no where it starts smoking like a chimney. Not just a little bit of gray or black smoke but large amounts of white thick sticks in the air smoke. Well I figured it was caused by the fuel and when I called around and explained when it was doing and what I had foolishly fueled it with just prior to it smoking almost every repair shop suggested rebuilding the engine at a cost out of my budget.
10-20-2010, 09:38 PM
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