I've have taken the advice of many in this thread and just drive my 300D hard like I would any gas powered car and I found that this car is a lot faster than I though it could be. I also have a noise issue with the engine that I can't figure out so maybe this will speed up the failure of what ever is causing the noise so I can once and for all find the source of the problem. There are so many things that can be causing the noise that trying to replace them one by one until I find it might cost more than one good failure. The only drawback to this is if I end up breaking something that wasn't originally at fault for my noise or even worse I end up with a truly catastrophic failure. What the heck, I don't have much to lose. I have other cars.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012