GL350 Conundrum
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From: Orbiting the planet
This place is a joke.
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Joined: Jan 2009
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From: V E G A S
1922 Ford Model T / no OBD
There is huge number of Sprinters with OM651 engine in USA.
Some of them passed 1/2 million miles
MB USA also offers OM654 engines in new Sprinters.
I can only wonder when they will bring E class with them?
Still drooling about new E class wagon with diesel, but I don't hold my breath.
Some of them passed 1/2 million miles
MB USA also offers OM654 engines in new Sprinters.
I can only wonder when they will bring E class with them?
Still drooling about new E class wagon with diesel, but I don't hold my breath.
Last edited by kajtek1; Apr 4, 2023 at 01:49 PM.
MBWorld Fanatic!
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 4,511
Likes: 1,513
From: Orbiting the planet
This place is a joke.
There is huge number of Sprinters with OM651 engine in USA.
Some of them passed 1/2 million miles
MB USA also offers OM654 engines in new Sprinters.
I can only wonder when they will bring E class with them?
Still drooling about new E class wagon with diesel, but I don't hold my breath.
Some of them passed 1/2 million miles
MB USA also offers OM654 engines in new Sprinters.
I can only wonder when they will bring E class with them?
Still drooling about new E class wagon with diesel, but I don't hold my breath.
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Joined: Jun 2022
Posts: 739
Likes: 328
From: WA State, USA
2014 Cummins, 2014 E250 Bluetec
Technically yes, the adblue system. The fuel mileage doesn't offer any net benefit when you calculate the higher cost of diesel, and the additional maintainence and repairs over what a gas engine requires. But that's been discussed here before. There weren't enough 4 cylinder diesels sold here in the U.S. to get a feel for their reliability outside the adblue system.
Thankfully I don't work on Sprinters so I see very few of those engines except for the occasional E250 or ML250, mostly adblue or dpf/nox problems. I think MB is really done with diesel passenger cars in the U.S. as they are focused on electric cars, and trying to claw their way past Tesla as the most desired electric brand. They've got an uphill battle that's for sure. Not only are they way late to the party, but ask any young kid what car they want.... it's a Tesla not a Mercedes. Elon certainly has done a great job in the marketing department.
Shame too because if we could have gotten a diesel hybrid instead of the prius crap we could have been enjoying 100mpg plus for the last 15 years
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 105
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From: SC
2015 GL350, 2013 GL350, 2002 ML320, 1983 E300TD-D
PS - I do run a diesel oil in it, delvac ESP 5-40.
