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Mcturbo, run as fast as you can with those Autolites back to AZ and exchange them for Beru or Bosch or you will be repeating replacement again soon. They also swell the body and ends of the pencils and can cause problems removing them.
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Labor intensive yes but from the number of threads that I have read on those long glow plugs getting stuck or broken off in the head (more so tha 617s) It might be better to pull them out every so often and ream the carbon out of the holes and re-install with Never-Seez as preventive maint.
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Yes, after 3 months use in CA I had difficulty removing 2 Autolites due to swollen tips (I bought them before I knew better). I had read that they had a high failure rate but did not know that the might damage my head (which could happen trying to remove them if they were stuck).
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So say what you will and I don't care if it is a new MB gasser or a little Toyota, if you tell those people that every two years they would have to spend a few hundred ($200 to $300) dollars for new spark plugs or as we say a "tune up", MB & Toyota won't be selling very many cars. Instead people will be buying BMW or Honda with 75,000 to 100,000 mile tune up at a couple hundred dollars. But that is just my opinion and may not be yours.
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OK, but I suspect the dealer cost for "A service" on a new gasser (about every 12K miles) is a lot more than $2-300. I would be thrilled if I could get away with a few $100 every couple of years on any car. Does anyone know the dealer cost?
From a search, it appears that Bosch spark plugs for a gas benz are about $10 each online. I spend an average of about $2-3000 per year on my car; doing routine maintenance and fixing the usual nits, GPs are the least of my expenses. |
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My '85 300D still has the glowplugs it came to me with, almost 2 years and 23,000 miles ago. The '87 came with one bad one, since replaced, but it doesn't get driven much so I don't have good data. Our new E300D has service records showing glow plug replacements several times (in 248,000 miles) and one is bad now, replacement on order. All six were replaced 2 POs, 3 years, and 45,000 miles ago. Late model preglow controllers with afterglow probably are harder on glow plugs than the earlier kind that shut off as soon as the engine cranks. Anyone have experience with these? Late W124, W210, etc.
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Myself if I owned a car that cost me two or three thousand bucks a year up keep I would find something else to drive, maybe an AMG of some kind. The only reason I can see for that kind of money is having a tranny rebuilt or some such. My '05 CDI will only average about $500 a year for everything being done at dealer, unless I need brakes, shocks or struts. But those are not annual repairs.
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Well, I drive a 400K mile car about 40K miles per year so it's a tad expensive. I understand driving a new one would be cheaper, but they don't interest me at all. It does cost a few dollars to maintain these if you don't want to let them degrade.
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My Jeep went just a tad over 300,000 miles and life time repair and up keep average wasn't $500 a year. Maybe those old MB ain't what they are cracked up to be, or you just be rough on cars like my wife.
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Your Glow Plug life, can also depend on your Glow Plug Relay. If it is of poor condition, or quality, it will either take its sweet time to het them up, which can cause extra stress on them. If it's in good shape/quality, it will heat them up faster, and hotter, which will make their work load less, for each time they are used..
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I believe my 300D still has the original glow plugs. I have had the car for 8 years and I have never changed one.
On my 240D, I changed one when I first got the car, about 4 years ago. I have never changed one on my Isuzu either. Had that truck about 13 years. All in all, in about 200K miles of dieseling, I have changed one glow plug. I suspect they would not have lasted as long in a cold climate. In Texas, the glow plugs have an easy life.
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Well I replaced what looked to be original GP's when I got the SDL, that was 4 years ago, and I did it again. Two failed. So I'm going to say 4 years ish+/-.
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On the Grandparents XJ8 they are $20 each x 16! On my friends M104 they are $3 x6! I think what MB does now is either an A or B serivce, every 13k miles. I'd be shocked getting out of one of those for under $500.
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