When trap oxidizers were failing on MB diesels of '85 - '87, Mercedes recognized this and warranteed the systems for life. After thousands upon thousands of oxidizer replacements in a decade's time, Mercedes came out with the oxidation catalyst for newer diesel models. They decided to fit the catalyst to the older California model diesels and be done with the TO replacements for good. In many cases this involved a brand new exhaust front to back, brand new turbo, and a brand new head. Serious $$$$ on each '85 - '87 California diesel they made. That's the MB that I used to know!

I noticed that site about a month ago and read every post/thread about the C class, the E class, and the S class cars. I did notice a common occurrence in all of the postings. Not only do the same spelling errors keep showing up (can anyone spell "recommended" correctly?), but the same odd way of wording a sentence.

The choice of words in a lot of the posts are very awkwardly phrased. I can't think of examples right now and I don't feel like reading that webpage all over again. The grammar is horrendous too. It seems as if a non-native speaker of English wrote all of those. The first time I read a few of the posts on that site, I thought "it was probably written by someone whose first language wasn't English", nothing wrong with that. But then every post thereafter had the same style of expression and was rife with glaring mistakes.

I almost think that the webmaster didn't cut and paste these as authentically-written pieces but maybe re-copied them from paper onto the web. As I think about that, that doesn't make much sense though.

When something is written, something that makes a statement, people check for simple, rudimentary grammatical rules and spelling to validate the quality of what's being written. It's the ugly truth. There's something to be said about putting your best foot forward-it's all people have to go by. Something that is poorly written isn't taken too seriously. Bad grammar and spelling really cheapen the whole point a person is making. It really detracts from everything the author is trying to say.

Anyway, I agree with you and wonder about the validity of the whole webpage. It seems that one person maybe wrote the whole thing.