GL CDI - More noisy than ML, E?
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GL CDI - More noisy than ML, E?
Don't get it.
I walk to work, so I get to see and hear a lot of cars from the outside. I can never tell if an ML or E Klasse is gonna be a CDI by sound, GL? Every time.
If you have never heard your truck from the outside, you should. It sounds like an angry milk truck, with a whispering, big-rig turbo whine, that is quite impressive.
ML, E, even though the engine is the same, never hear that. There is something in the induction, exhaust and packaging that creates this unique sound, but you can never hear it from inside. All we get is the exhaust rumble (oddly absent from outside)
Or maybe it's all just so much cacaphony from the extra load and weight?
Who knows? Just an observation...
I walk to work, so I get to see and hear a lot of cars from the outside. I can never tell if an ML or E Klasse is gonna be a CDI by sound, GL? Every time.
If you have never heard your truck from the outside, you should. It sounds like an angry milk truck, with a whispering, big-rig turbo whine, that is quite impressive.
ML, E, even though the engine is the same, never hear that. There is something in the induction, exhaust and packaging that creates this unique sound, but you can never hear it from inside. All we get is the exhaust rumble (oddly absent from outside)
Or maybe it's all just so much cacaphony from the extra load and weight?
Who knows? Just an observation...
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Only immediate thing that I can think of is that the intercooler hose recall only applied to GLs.
The E's of course are significantly lower to the ground, which will obviously absorb some of the sound.
I agree, I love the sound of my GL diesel.
The E's of course are significantly lower to the ground, which will obviously absorb some of the sound.
I agree, I love the sound of my GL diesel.
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I love the sound of our GL people do turn around and look for the car.
sound is great specially when you open window and drive between buildings in town. It sounds like big powerful beast is coming.
sound is great specially when you open window and drive between buildings in town. It sounds like big powerful beast is coming.
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