Woah, 500 mile range per tank? On which model? My 84 300D Euro barely gets 295 miles per tank, before that reserve light is glowing.. and I don't push it much past 300. My mileage isn't THAT bad, it's in the 24-26 mpg range. Do the SD's get that much better range?

Huh, may have to get myself one of those SD's, if that's the case.

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(Oo{=|=}oO) 1983 MB 300D USA, 212,000mi. 80's yellow/white. "Gunther"
(Oo{=|=}oO) 1984 MB 300D Euro, Turbo Added in Germany, 186,000mi [SOLD] Missing her dearly.
(Oo{=|=}oO) 1984 MB 300D USA Turbodiesel, 269,000mi. [SOLD]

Keep something that has a useful alternate use. Motor oil (for your engine, not someone else's), diesel, B100, food-grade veggie oil, ATF, etc.

If you're keeping it in your trunk, maybe a quart of each. Sure was glad to have the spare quart of oil in the trunk when I ran the Horizon out of oil on some back country roads a number of years back. Pulled over, put it in, drove gently to the nearest filling station (~5mi) where I filled it up. It never ran quite the same after that, but it did go another 30kmi and a number of cross country trips before the frame rusted out from underneath it. So yeah, I can understand your desire to have some spare whatever in the trunk

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'83 300DTurbo http://badges.fuelly.com/images/smallsig-us/318559.png

Broadband: more lies faster.

I keep 5gallons of diesel in the garage, and for on-road emergencies, I have 2 quarts of ATF in the trunk.

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Gone to the dark side

- Jeff

I keep a few quarts of both motor oil and ATF in the trunk, ostensibly in case the car is low on either, but I wouldn't hesitate to dump either in the tank in an emergency. I would probably use the motor oil before the ATF.

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1992 300D 2.5T 249k - Parked with a bad transmission
1981 300SD 142k - Daily driver

the car dosnt take the full two gallons of diesel I usually buy; so one always ends up in the trunk half full.


I also keep some AFT and powersteering (along with MM oil) in the trunk,.



and coolant....spare tool kit....

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-1983 VW Rabbit LS Diesel (5speed, VNT/Giles build)

There are SO many people on this forum with fuel gauges that don't work, and it's an easy fix. So I agree with a previous post, don't run out in the first place.

That said, it's always good to know what alternatives will work

jeff 1991 300d

Does the euro have a smaller tank? I fill my SD at about 400 right after the light comes on.

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"spreading a trail of obnoxious where ever we go"
1981 300sd w/ 341,500 miles

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Thats exactly what I do.

"What can I use for diesel fuel in an emergency?"

Cell phone and Visa card, MB roadside will bring you out a few gallons in a jiff.

Pigs will fly before I put jerry cans in my trunk, that would smell just wonderfull.

These cars have large tanks so its kind of hard to run them out of fuel, but with certain people its quite possible.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

My SDL can do a quite comfortable 450, since I drive by the mile thats when I usualy fill up. I know some people who do a lot of highway driving have gotten 600 miles out of a tank.

23.5 gallons at 30mpg do the math...

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

The diesel is still on its first full tank of fuel under my care. . 390 miles on the odo and the guage is just below 1/2 tank. I'm lovin' this!!!

A local inventor, Wilson Greatbatch , who invented pacemaker batteries, is working on the " right ratio" mix of bio and petro. 2 veggie oils and a petro diesel cut, but I'm not certain what the deisgn goal is.

Tyson foods teams up with Conoco to deliver rendered fat/tallow to refine into diesel.

Which means we can make fuel out of the fat and skins of our enemies.

somehow, I like that too.

hahaha, let me tell u right now, sh%t happens...
me being the idiot that i am, have run out of fuel twice!
Keep any amount of any thing in the trunk that u would feel fine with putting in the tank under normal circumstances.I wouldnt recomend keep ing veggie or straight diesel for much longer then 3 months in the trunk, just put it in the tank if u dont use it, and refill your portable. the reason i say this, is because u can get algae growth in the tank.

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82' 300SD

I always can count on 550 miles out of a tank. Granted, most of my mileage is highway, but still, 550 is the minimum...

On a good day, I can easily get 600 out of a tank.......

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87 300SDL - 215K Miles !!
99 F-350CC Dually PSD - 190K
86 300SDL - 189K
All on B-100

Did you forget already about the people fleeing Katrina that ran out of gas?

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1985 300D Turbo
"Evolution is God's way of giving upgrades" Francis Collins

On long trips our 300SDL would go 600 miles 'fore we'd fill her up. What a cruiser man, i still miss the extra punch of the 603.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi