He wrote a perfect explanation, but I just searched and could not find it in the archives. I think some of the early posts have been dumped. Anyway, it went something like this:


Oil seeps from the turbo bearing and forms a ball of carbon in the exhaust system. Eventually it gets big enough to break off and gets sucked in to the intake by the EGR system. The combustion chamber in a Diesel is extremely small, so the result is bent rods.

Perform a search on "Diesel EGR" and username "Benzmac" and you'll find some other times when he's mentioned this.

The ultimate solution is to disable the EGR which, of course, is illegal.

Sorry you had to go through this.

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Rick Miley
2014 Tesla Model S
2018 Tesla Model 3
2017 Nissan LEAF
Former MB: 99 E300, 86 190E 2.3, 87 300E, 80 240D, 82 204D Euro
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