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Old 04-09-2007, 07:21 PM
deanyel deanyel is offline
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Originally Posted by uberwgn View Post
For Vehicles Without Flexible Service System:

USA vehicles MY 1997 and earlier: The car requires 229.3 or 229.5 oil.


ACEA or API oil can be used if the mfr's speced oil is not available.
Something that is "required" only when available is not actually a requirement. Such garbled language allows dealers to push more profitable, but unnecessary, synthetics on unsuspecting customers. MB fractures the English language when it is in their self-interest to do so. These are the same people who gave us the "first 4 door coupe" (CLS) when the definition of a coupe is an automobile with 2 doors.
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