Yesterday - March 13, 2006 - we got a letter at home from MB
saying that our 1980 300D had not yet had its aluminum
air filter housing replaced under a MB recall from 1981.

The original letter (1981) was enclosed, and a request to visit the dealer
to have this lower air housing replaced.

The aluminum housing may crack and cause some problem.

I called the dealer service department, they were suprised I would
get a letter 26 years later, but agreed to take care of it.

Now I am thinking that my retro aluminum housing may be collectible.
I am inclined to keep it the way it is. I'll ask if they can let me have the
parts and do it myself, so I can keep the original (probably not).

I am continually amazed at how well MB takes care of its customers.
Even years after the sale.

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80 300D 340K Owned 30 yrs
83 300SD 440K Owned 9 yrs - Daily Driver 150mi/day
02 Z71 Suburban 117,000
15 Toyota Prius 2600 miles
00 Harley Sportster 24k
09 Yamaha R6
03 Ninja 250

Wow, that is truely amazing.

You must be the original owner?

Interesting, something similar happened to me. When I applied for a high mileage badge for my 1985 300D California emissions model a few weeks later I got a letter from MercedesBenz USA telling me that the trap oxidizer recall needs to be done on my car... the thing is I had already inquired at the dealer whether it had been done or not and they said it had been done... need to get to the bottom of this.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Yea I think your housing needs to be in a mueseum.

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1981 300D 147k
1998 VW Jetta Tdi 320k
2001 Dodge Ram 2500 141k
1979 300D 234k (sold)
1984 300D "Astor" 262k(sold)
Mercedes How-To and Repair Pictorials
I love the smell of diesel smoke in my hair

Pardon me for being cynical, but I'm sure this is more a case of expense avoidance, either by litigation or bad publicity, etc......
I believe they need to demonstrate a continued effort to solve recalls, although the age of this is surprising.......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

If you want to keep your air filter housing, go to you closest pick and pull and pull out another housing, install it on your car, go to mb and get the recall work done and enjoy a brand new filter housing while keeping your original. Shouldn't cost more than 15-20 dollars and a little bit of time.

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-Zack K.

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1983 300d Turbo (Daily Drive) -- 243,000 miles
1979 280ce AMG (Beginning extreme restoration) -- 141,410 miles
1979 Yamaha Chappy LB50 (Awating new points) -- 1411.6 miles

1981 300d Euro 4 speed -- 188,421 km -- SOLD
1979 300d Euro 4 speed (Sold to Brother) -- 257,000 miles

A Collection of w123 AMG Cars and Parts

rhodes,

When was the letter mailed? Maybe the post lost it for 26 years?

P E H

When is MB going to do a recall on the 350 Diesel engines with the bent rods?

P E H