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We have a service advisor at work with a 97 E300D with at last check 280,000 miles on it and the transmission fluid on his 722.6 has never been changed, working great. He bought it with about 225,000 on it from a customer of ours who bought it new from us and did all the maintenance specified by MB. That same customer is now into a 2000 ML320 and is approaching 150,000 on that with nothing but the normal FSS schedule maintenance work done, and it's doing great as well. He likes the ML but really wants a Diesel again. Nice guy, he and his brother are travelling salesmen. I believe they sell books to schools, textbooks and library books, like that sort of stuff. Lots of books in the vehicles when they show up, they empty them out id they bring them in for service.
It would take me 8 or 10 years to put on a couple hundred thousand miles. If I were going to do that with a vehicle witht he 722.6 transmission, I would probably do the trans service at 100,000. MOST people don't hold on to a vehicle for this many years or miles.
Gilly
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