While driving a new to me 124 home from work the other day the reserve light came on. Remembering that I had read here the reserve is 2.5+/- gal. I continued on as I only had about 25 miles to go. You guessed it, about 10 miles later So there I sat 15 miles from home, empty. The needle had not reached the line where the R is. I guess now I know where "empty" is After sitting there a few minutes and debating wether to call my wife or AAA, I remember I had a gallon of Diesel Kleen in the trunk So I poured the gallon into the tank, after filling the fuel filter of course. Turned the key and it started right up! Ran for about 30 sec and died Hoping that it was just an empty primary filter and fuel lines I began cranking. After a total of about 4 mins. of cranking in 30 sec bursts it started. To make a long story short it ran great for the rest of the way home

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Muleears
'07 E320 Bluetec 133K my DD
'04 Jaguar XJ8 VDP, 34K
'10 Hyundai Accent 60K Grocery Getter
'02 VW Golf soon to be on the road again
'97 E300 Diesel Son's DD
'61 VERY tolerant wife

Hampton Roads, VA USA

Gone but not forgotten:
'67 250S 95K
'86 300SDL
'87 300D Turbo, 364K! R.I.P.
'98 E300 Turbodiesel, 213K
'02 S420, 164K
'01 Prius 138K

You can do it with new engine oil, vegetable oil, power steering fluid, any number of things tbh

That would have been a great time to dump in a bottle of injector cleaner! No need to put the hoses in a bottle...

-Jim

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1995 S350D, Green with black leather interior.
Bought January 2008 w/ 233,xxx miles.
I did 22,000 miles during the first year of ownership.

Exactly!

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I found out the same thing, on the interstate, reserve light does not come on, as the gauge did not drop that far, Christmas morn 3:30am. Oh joy. Ins. towed me home, got it straightened out.

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83 SD

84 CD

Had to do the same thing w/ diesel kleen too. Man, my car was peppy on that stuff.

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

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I once got stuck on empty on the way back from getting Chinese take out.

Usually I have 2-5 gallons of WVO in the trunk, but I was out from the last time I ran on empty.

Instead of waiting for AAA I poured in 1 QT of WOnTon SOup and 1 Qt of vegetarian Hot & Sour soup that I filtered through my T-shirt.

I made it home no problem, but I did miss having Hot & Sour with my MU SHU.



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'87 924S
'81 280SEL

Sold ->

81 300SD -
93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."