https://jalopnik.com/daimler-will-pay-billions-to-be-done-with-that-whole-di-1844717884

I hope it was worth the dozen or so diesel cars they sold in the USA every year post 2010.

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They should've done a valve adjustment and run Diesel Purge.

^^best answer

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2004 F150 4.6L -My Daily
2007 Volvo XC70 -Wife's Daily
1998 Ford F150 -Rear ended
1989 J-spec 420SEL -passed onto its new keeper
1982 BMW 733i -fixed and traded for the 420SEL
2003 Volvo V70 5 Speed -scrapped
1997 E290 Turbo Diesel Wagon -traded for above
1992 BMW 525i -traded in
1990 Silver 300TE -hated the M103
1985 Grey 380SE Diesel Conversion, 2.47 rear end, ABS -Sold, really should have kept this one
1979 Silver 300D "The Silver Slug" -Sold

I'll give you three guesses where they are going to make up the loss and the first two guesses don't count.

I have been wondering how mb avoided the vw pitfall.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

More like 40-41,000 a year. Total involved vehicles was around 250k.

Its all a sham anyways, our emissions laws are incredibly warped and designed to appease the oil companies. Aka, an 8,000lb v8 gas pickup is A-ok, while a small diesel sedan is scrutinized to no end.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I'm not sure why you think it's a sham. The 8,000lb gas pickup outputs far less particulates and NOx than even the smallest 4cyl diesel. Blaming our regulations for Mercedes emissions cheating is a bit like blaming the rape victim.

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Not blaming the regulations for the cheating. Gas engines do produce particulates, I can get more soot off the average gas vehicle's exhaust pipe than I can from my GLK250.

That huge pickup also pumps 4-5x the carbon dioxide into the air as a high mpg diesel. In the grand scheme of things, that massive extra amount of CO2, plus just the enormous waste of a finite resource in general, will have the greater negative impact.

A couple container ships chugging along the ocean likely pollutes more than just about every MB diesel in the country put together....but you don't see them with DPF systems forced upon them.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

To true.

I wonder if they will buy mine back at a ridiculous price?

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Same here. Guess we wait and see....

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Being in Canada, the US settlement won't apply. But there is a separate class action here that I am part of.

I got rid of my GLK250 after 5 years. Mainly because of concerns over emission system maintenance cost once warranty expired. Too bad, because I thought I had bought a car that would last me forever, like our W123 diesel. And it is great little car. Too bad we couldn't have got the CDI version.

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85 300D,72 350SL, 98 E320, Outback 2.5

My 2013 GLK250 clicked over 100K last night on the way home. I'm the original owner of the car and it's been used mostly in a suburban/rural environment.

I've had zero issues with any emissions components, DPF, SCR system and NOx sensors are untouched. I've done all the maintenance with low ash 229.51 or .52 oii as called for by the maintenance indicators in the car.

Car still drives as-new and its an absolute joy to drive, plan on keeping it for the for the long haul. I'll certainly update the board in the future when I encounter my first emissions related failure.

Over the first 100K miles of operation I've used around 1,300 less gallons of fuel than I would have used had I specified the V-6 gas version of the GLK.

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98 Dodge-Cummins pickup (137K)
13 GLK250 (157k)
06 E320CDI (341K)
16 C300 (89K)
82 300GD Gelaendewagen (54K)

When you get a rebuilt converter. It is brutally expensive. The matrix filter they change in it when rebuilding is only 15-20 dollars when ordered from China where the original dpf filters are made. I suspect they just cut off one end and remove the damaged matrix and pop a new one in and weld it back up again. Becoming the rebuilt a dealer installs for how much?

I will, is a thousand ridiculous enough. I hope you agree.