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Old 02-09-2009, 01:15 AM
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Originally Posted by cliffmac View Post
OK Dayton Ohio. my brother lives in Kettering by the NCR course. The oil pressure gauge is not designed for synthetic (and I bet your owners manual doesn't call for synthetic). I had the same problem on my 300TE, the oil pressure gauge was not looking good. I went and had the oil changed to Castrol 20-40 and goddamn! pressure gauge went right back to where is should be, low and behold, the idiot who I bought the car from had put synthetic in it. Everything is fine now, I am convinced that the indicator gauge was confused because of the junk synthetic stuff. I am sure of this fact.....bet that's it...just go have the oil changed (all 7 quarts of it) back to mineral oil...bet the gauge comes back up....
Um. Or not. Use synthetic oil. MB recommends 0w40 Mobil 1 to be used in all MB motors. I use it in our 300E and it runs awesome with it.

Mineral oil? Yeah right....
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