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Originally Posted by DslBnz
The one thing I am leery about: US E300 turbodiesels had 10K mile oil changes on dino oil. Maybe it's sticky rings or something, but the majority of low mileage E300D's I have seen have concerning amounts of blowby(I mean, only 100K miles and there's a visible mist? Looks like a 300SD 617 with 300K miles). They also crack their injectors at high load(at least it sounds like it).
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MB specs out Mobil 1 0w40 or 15w50. From what I have seen from oil tests in 603/606's I don't see a problem with 10k mile changes provided synthetic is used. The entire FSS lawsuit was about this.