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Originally Posted by uberwgn
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.
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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.