Now there is a reason to not live in Canada. It was 70F yesterday, I go a bit of a sunburn fixing a wooden gate at my parents. Not my W123, but my stepdad brought the 2x4 from HD via his 240d auto.

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1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42

Started last week @ -10F-with heater assit- but I think it would w/o(maybe) This is with 340K on motor & almlost 100k on veggie. Also was able to switch on veg and drove 30miles to work with oil at 180F most of the way.

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81 300D Turbo 190K sold
83 300sd 319K best $500 I ever spent-daily driverw/ 2 tank WVO set up

Ahh I don't miss this; 2 degrees the other morning, truck fired off normally, put it in reverse and went.

Now with my old SD if the block heater wasn't plugged in for 3-4 hours that would have been fun, and it would have been a slug for a few miles.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

The coldest I've drove the 240 is -7F not plugged in and parked outside.
When I left work tonight it was a balmy +10 so no big deal. After I switched to Mobil1 5-40 It starts real good in cold weather and I don't bother with plugging it in anymore. Besides there isn't any place to plug it in at work anyway, and I work second shift. It has to start.

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Jon J.
81 240D

It's supposed to be something like -10F here in IA this week, so that may end up being my coldest.

ColdestI started and drove the 300d was -10, and my block heater cord is bad so it wasnt plugged in. She fired up and drove nicely. That same day I fired the 300sd which has been sitting for a month and it start quicker than the 300d, but I didnt drive it.

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1987 300D(Erma)- #14 head, 193k
2003 TDI Beetle sold
1985 300sd sold
1987 300D(Ursala)- #14 head, 157k when sold
1987 300D(Wilbur)- #14head, 356,000+miles, sold after 7 days of owning it.
1992mercedes 300d- totaled and in a junk yard somewhere..
1983 mercedes 300sd- scrapped
1980 mercedes 300sd first mercedes diesel-sold

-20 F with 15w oil and block heater over night and there was a little struggle bringing the oil pressure up at first, once it was there it was all good.

I've learned never use 15w oil during a fall oil change.

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