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Thanks guys.
This guy knows his business -- it's not the oil (fresh 15W 50 synthetic), it's not a leak, and it's not a visible or detectable failure of any sort that he's seen before (and he's seen most of them by now....).
Low is 5 psi or so at idle hot, way too low for a W119 with only 80,000 miles. Comes up nicely with increased rpm, but 5 psi won't cut it. No way you would have less than 1 bar oil pressure on this thing.
The only things I could think of were a defective bearing or a bad oil pump, neither exactly likely.
Peter
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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!
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