Was the complaint from this customer. Vehicle ultimately got written off..hit a pot hole in my town. and here I am thinking about lowering my ride
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Well I've heard of dual mass flywheel problems but that's taking it to another (lower) level...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

holy crap!
i've had an oilpan crack on me (due to towing guy screwing up)
i've seen a 190e drop to the ground and airbags pop cause flex joints go bad
i've seen my friend's e30 bmw crack his oilpan, run his bumper over cause its so low and bleed all the way home..
i've seen a rock crack an e34 bmw's diff..

but this is totally a new level! great pics haha

wait so what the heck tore a chunk out of that transmission?

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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

I would have gone around that one!

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I don't think it was a tear, to be exact, just smacked the transmission down onto the ground at about 50Kmh, hit the pothole when he dodged a pedestrian, otherwise he woulda dodged the pothole instead..lol the trans slammed, the bellhousing broke along the bottom, continued to deform till the flywheel contacted the housing then the engine torque twisted it all apart.

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RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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Ouch. One of the guys on another forum of mine hit a manhole cover during construction (so it was raised) and it hit the subframe, triggering all the airbags.

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- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

My sister took the 190e I am making into a diesel over a mound of concrete rubble along the side of a roadway at 55mph a while back...car went airborne on one side for a couple seconds....scuffed/dented the underside in one spot, and it sliced the rubber pressure fuel hose as well as blew out the drivers rear shock.....replaced the hose/replaced the shock and re-did some undercoat and it was back in action. Looks like she'd better not do that to her Jetta she has now.

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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)

Not lowered but abused..
Honda Accord driven by a teen driver... Offroad, at speed.
Comes over a crest, bottoms the suspension out, and a nice rock in the center of the track, rips out his oil pan...



From inside...
And yes, that cast circle is where the oil pickup goes...



What does the bottom of the oil pickup look like?

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