Ok -- a couple of questions please...

Reminder - I was away from the MB Diesel family for many years, but have returned....

MY QUESTIONS: for my 85 300SD, I'm planning an oil change this weekend -- Being that I'm in the HD Truck and Commercial vehicle industry, I hear very good things about Valvoline Premium Blue 15W40 Diesel Motor oil in heavy trucks (NON SYN) - I'm thinking about using ----Does anyone have experience, thoughts or feedback?

Next Question: What is the proper Antifreeze? Looking at using the Zerex G-05 (Yellow) as it's listed for HD diesel engines....Any experience, thoughts or feedback?

Thanks for your help and advice...

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71Inka02

62 W121 190DB - Original CA/AZ Car - Excellent Example
99 E300 Turbo Diesel - 362,000...Awesome Daily Driver
01 E320 Wagon - 297,xxx (wife's work car)
01 E320 Wagon - 131,000
02 Land Rover Disco SE- 110,000
87 BMW 325is (E30) Full Restore - Son's
06 Mini Cooper 'S' - Son's
87 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser - Showroom Condition - 152,000

84 300D - 142,xxx :cool - "Sold"
83 300D-"Sold" - 211,456
85 300SD-"Sold" - 213,789

Oil choice is very personal.



Use Zerex G-05 or MB coolant.

And try the Search function!

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

Yeah, your opening a can of worms with that one.

The one thing that almost everyone can agree on is change it hot & change it often!

Zerex G-05 is fine.

Danny

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1984 300SD Turbo Diesel 150,000 miles

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For oil- Do a search, you'll find many, many threads where people state their opinion (and argue). Get ready for a thread about 5-25 pages long!

Zerex G05 or Mercedes factory coolant is what almost everyone seems to use.

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

Now remember what we learned in Kindergarten - No fighting, play nice! Didn't mean to open the can of worms -- but was really curious to get input from the experts -

This SD (haven't named yet) has service records back to 145,000 miles....It now has 198,000 - so in reviewing the records, it has had a couple of differant brands of oil, and both 15W40 & 20W50....Personally, I'm ANTI synthetic oil - big reasons for me are the cost, and from a "psychological" stand point - I can't go the miles between changes-just seems wrong! My wife's 01 E320 wagon has over 220K (her mobile office), she has it serviced religiously by the dealer and they use synthetic - car still runs and performs beautifully - uses an expensive 3 quarts of oil between services, but according to Benz that's normal and expected.

An interesting point - My oldest son has an 06 Cooper 'S' - It tells you when to change the oil...can be between 11 & 15K, depending on driving style --- I refuse to allow my son to listen to the 'car'...He has firm instructions to have the oil changed every 5K. All maintenance on this car is covered by Mini while under warranty, but only when the car tells you it's ready for service - so we have to pay for the 'extra' oil changes - but in 'discussing' this with the service manager at Mini ---- He asked me 1 question, and I quote: "are you planning on keeping the car a long time?" Our answer was yes --- He then said, "you're doing the right thing by changing the oil on YOUR requested schedule". End of story...

WOW -- looks like I have my own 'can of worms'.........I need a drink! I'm not going to ask for feedback ----- but I'm certainly curious to hear from you....I'm on vacation this week and I'm bored.

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71Inka02

62 W121 190DB - Original CA/AZ Car - Excellent Example
99 E300 Turbo Diesel - 362,000...Awesome Daily Driver
01 E320 Wagon - 297,xxx (wife's work car)
01 E320 Wagon - 131,000
02 Land Rover Disco SE- 110,000
87 BMW 325is (E30) Full Restore - Son's
06 Mini Cooper 'S' - Son's
87 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser - Showroom Condition - 152,000

84 300D - 142,xxx :cool - "Sold"
83 300D-"Sold" - 211,456
85 300SD-"Sold" - 213,789

I like delvac 15W-40 if we are talking non-synthetic.

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

How do you propose to do that?

ummm -- by asking my questions on this forum...

Did I miss your point...?

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71Inka02

62 W121 190DB - Original CA/AZ Car - Excellent Example
99 E300 Turbo Diesel - 362,000...Awesome Daily Driver
01 E320 Wagon - 297,xxx (wife's work car)
01 E320 Wagon - 131,000
02 Land Rover Disco SE- 110,000
87 BMW 325is (E30) Full Restore - Son's
06 Mini Cooper 'S' - Son's
87 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser - Showroom Condition - 152,000

84 300D - 142,xxx :cool - "Sold"
83 300D-"Sold" - 211,456
85 300SD-"Sold" - 213,789

Do not use 20w50. Since you are from the trucking world you aleady know about using oil with out the diesel ratings.

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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

C'mon go ahead and open that can. It won't hurt one little bit.

I run PG coolant 100%,thats the low toxic stuff.Oil,whats on sell,even Supertech at Wal Mart.Learned about Evans PG coolant.

There's a $15 off 6 gal of Delo 400 coupon at Costco for the next couple of weeks.

Sixto
87 300D

Looks like I did open the can --- wow, my first can opening on this forum! looks like it's gonna be a great evening -- wife and kids out of town, I popped the lid on a fresh bottle of Sky -- life is great!

Ok -- seriously...I'm not familiar with Delo, but always have my Costco card in hand and look for reasons to go there, especially a sale!...Whats the scoop on Delo -- the 'weight' and anything special about it ---

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71Inka02

62 W121 190DB - Original CA/AZ Car - Excellent Example
99 E300 Turbo Diesel - 362,000...Awesome Daily Driver
01 E320 Wagon - 297,xxx (wife's work car)
01 E320 Wagon - 131,000
02 Land Rover Disco SE- 110,000
87 BMW 325is (E30) Full Restore - Son's
06 Mini Cooper 'S' - Son's
87 Toyota FJ60 Land Cruiser - Showroom Condition - 152,000

84 300D - 142,xxx :cool - "Sold"
83 300D-"Sold" - 211,456
85 300SD-"Sold" - 213,789

http://www.chevrondelo.com/en/products/engineoil/default.asp

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"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Truckers must really like Delo. I see plenty of those blue gallon bottles discarded on the shoulders of the highways.