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no worries,..what ever the diesel price in US is...in Europe is 40-50% higher

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w126 500SEC gen II euro, powered by OM617 turbo stolen from 84 300SD 2.88 diff,EGR blinded
next wish/project: w114 coupe OM603 powered

I was in Wisconsin last week and was surprised to see diesel lower than regular gas.

Just the opposite here in Georgia, its Diesel higher than even premium, ... Go figure.

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2012 B Class

1981 300D - Now with greazzer

Its about AU $ 1.53 / ltr here in Australia. They basically charge what ever they can get away with.

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Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club group

I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

I like to use FlyingJ/Pilot as kind of a quick and dirty benchmark. Here are their prices today for fuel in different parts of the country, selected at random. Quite a variety...

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Current Stable

• 380SL (diesel)
• Corvette C5
• Manx
• Baja Bug
• F350 Powerstroke
• Auburn Boattail Speedster replica

Exactly! whatever smacker they can get ....


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w126 500SEC gen II euro, powered by OM617 turbo stolen from 84 300SD 2.88 diff,EGR blinded
next wish/project: w114 coupe OM603 powered

The only thing I miss about living in Mississippi was the cheaper Diesel. It is about $.50 more per gallon here or $3.99.

Since I started paying attention to diesel prices I noticed wide variations in the same area. One station will be $4.19, drive a mile down the road and its $4.59. Gas buddy is completely useless for diesel prices since they don't get updated very often and sometimes they just straight lie about it. I have a W124 V8 fuel tank on my shopping list for ultimate range.

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Whats the capacity on the stock 124 diesel tank vs the V8? I can't recall off hand.

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82 300SD 145k
89 420SEL 210k
89 560SEL 118k
90 300SE 262k RIP 5/25/2010
90 560SEL 154k
91 300D 2.5 Turbo. 241k
93 190E 3.0 235k
93 300E 195k

The 95 E300 has a 24 gal tank.

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Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat

I recondition w123/w126/w124/w140/r107/r129/ steering boxes!


1984 300D "Elsa" odo reset 6/2011 147k
1983 300TD "Mitzi" ~268k OM603 powered
1995 E300 "Adelheid" 262k [Sold]

The 124 500E/E500 had the big fuel tank. I was seriously looking at them in the late 90s, but dropped the idea because the large tank reduced trunk capacity more than I could live with.

A quick Google shows the 400E/E420 using the smaller 18.5 gallon tank.

To make the list more accurate, run the older numbers through www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm to normalize the dollars to today.

In fact, to those that long for the good old days, look at what things cost back then and normalize to today.

Many are forgetting that modern cars are way more efficient and need less repairs than in days gone by. Total cost per mile is what one should really be tracking.

Yeah, I came across a curious site in Lee Vining California!!!

Diesel cheaper than gasoline, but the price was still near $5 a gallon.

But the price arrangement was enough to bust out the 'ol camera!

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1982 300SD
1985 190D
1986 300SDL
1984 Toyota 2.4 Diesel Pickup
1985 Toyota 22R Pickup
1996 Cummins Turbo Ram 2500
2003 Yamaha WR450F

If it makes anybody feel better, gasoline in Hawaii (big island) was around $4.40 and diesel was a dollar more at every station.

I stand corrected. Somehow I got it into my head that all the V8s had the larger fuel tank. I was wrong.

Has anybody tried fitting the S124 tank into a sedan to free up more trunk space?

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It hit $5.00/gallon in the summer of 2005 in Fresno.

At the time, I could buy VVO from Costco for about $2.85/gallon and we ran the 300SD on nothing else for 6 months, until the price of VVO started going up.

I fueled earlier this week in Palm Springs for $4.49/gallon...

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Did you just pass my 740 at 200 kmh in a 300SD?????

1978 300SD 'Phil' - 1,315,853 Miles And Counting - 1, 317,885 as of 12/27/2012 - 1,333,000 as of 05/10/2013, 1,337,850 as of July 15, 2013, 1,339,000 as of August 13, 2013



100,000 miles since June 2005 Overhaul - Sold January 25th, 2014 After 1,344,246 Miles & 20 Years of Ownership

The Shell station in Tyson's Corner VA is pricing diesel the same at 87 octane. I must note that the Mercedes and VW dealer are close by, so perhaps that is where they take their diesel cars and the pricing is the incentive. Lucky me, I work close by and have the right car to get in on this.

The Prius owners in my company were a little jealous to find about this pricing and starting eyeing some newer VW diesel cars.

Pabster