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Thank you for the reply.
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You’re welcome.
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If it is the rings, are there certain years that are effected? The reringing I assume are a new style ring ?Is the early wear due to design flaws or the over optomistic maintenance schedule ?
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Good question. Oil consumption was never an issue (as far as I know) until the M112/113 engines were produced. As for the oil rings? I don't have a clue. Perhaps the MB engineers on this Forum can answer that question.
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I had an exceptional problem. I bought my ML320 cheap because of the oil consumption. All I did was change the oil, gas octane, and cleaned the EGR tube and totally cured the oil consumption. I talked with the talk radio mechanic's and they said i did all the right things. the regular gas retards the timing and contaminates the oil with gasoline and then it thins & burns oil.
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Congratulations, I'm glad your story had a happy ending.
