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Old 05-14-2014, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by jcyuhn View Post
Over on another MB board there was a recent post by a dealer tech that was rebuilding the engine from an S550. The oil had never been changed; the owner simply drove it from new until failure. The car had about 55K miles on it, IIRC.
This must be very common. An old friend who used to work at Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills as a mechanic told me about an older lady that brought in a 2002 CL63 AMG on a flatbed with a seized engine. 33K miles and never changed the oil.
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