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Originally Posted by Maxbumpo
I know of two 123 cars which died on the first highway run when the oil cooler was deleted: a 240D and a 300D. I do not know if AC was installed or not. MB engineers put it there for a reason.
If your car did not have a cooler from the factory, then the MB engineers didn't think it was required, and given that your car has survived this long, it's quite obvious that you don't need one unless you make drastic changes to the car (like add air conditioning or a trailer hitch and start pulling big loads).
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was the run up a 9%grade 7 mile pass? I find it hard to believe an oil cooler bypassed, could cause an otherwise fine condition vehicle to fail on the first run.
we gotta have details of these two known cases.
what was done to the cars besides OCB? since it's unlikely in the extreme they were brand new MB cars with the oil coolers bypassed at the dealership... I'm thinking there is much more to the story.
