daverake
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- Sprinter 313cdi 2010
Hello all,
Please, I'd like to ask whoever may answer some questions about my Sprinter. First of all, I'd like to tell you that I'm Spanish, so there will be some mechanical terms I don't know, appart from the fact that English is not my mother tongue, so I will make mistakes. Excuse me for that, my apologies. I also hope there's no problem from the fact of writing from abroad.
My wife and I bought a 2010 Sprinter 313 cdi which had served as an ambulance, with 375.000 kms; we were to turn it into a motorhome. Just 33 days an 600 kms later I was driving home when the Sprinter suddenly run out of power, all warnings lightning, and woulnd't run again. Taken to the mechanic, veredict is cranckshaft seized and engine dead.
From this moment, we're searching for a substitution used engine, but we're having problems finding one here in Spain. In one junkyard I'm even told there's a list of people waiting to get one because this engine, 651.955, is defective and there's a lot of Sprinters having this failure. In two engine remanufaturers I'm told they rebuild this engine no more, because it fails again just 10.000 kms after its mounted again. I go to two Mercedes Benz dealers and they claim there's not such defective behaviour for this engine, just had a problem with certain oil pumpwhich didn't injected enough oil, but vehicles were called to Mercedes so this pump was susbtituted. Finally, another person out of Mercedes claims this failure is still going on and every 651.955 which has not that oil pump susbtituted every 100.000 kms or 10 years has the same failure my Sprinter has had.
So, what I would like to ask you is if do you know any of all this talk is true. Are those engines "weaker" than usual, as rebuilders and junkyard claim? Is anybody aware of that problem in oil pump Mercedes dealers told me? Is it true that I must replace that oil pump every 10 years or 100.000 kms? And most important of all, do you think it is worth to spend the money on repairing this van or would I be taking too much risk in case of mounting an engine taken from a junyard? I can't spend 12.000 euros on a new engine, if I had that money I wouldn't had bought an ex-ambulance with 375.000 kms. I mean, are you aware that this engine is prone to cause problems again?
Thanks very much for reading this and your advice.
David
Please, I'd like to ask whoever may answer some questions about my Sprinter. First of all, I'd like to tell you that I'm Spanish, so there will be some mechanical terms I don't know, appart from the fact that English is not my mother tongue, so I will make mistakes. Excuse me for that, my apologies. I also hope there's no problem from the fact of writing from abroad.
My wife and I bought a 2010 Sprinter 313 cdi which had served as an ambulance, with 375.000 kms; we were to turn it into a motorhome. Just 33 days an 600 kms later I was driving home when the Sprinter suddenly run out of power, all warnings lightning, and woulnd't run again. Taken to the mechanic, veredict is cranckshaft seized and engine dead.
From this moment, we're searching for a substitution used engine, but we're having problems finding one here in Spain. In one junkyard I'm even told there's a list of people waiting to get one because this engine, 651.955, is defective and there's a lot of Sprinters having this failure. In two engine remanufaturers I'm told they rebuild this engine no more, because it fails again just 10.000 kms after its mounted again. I go to two Mercedes Benz dealers and they claim there's not such defective behaviour for this engine, just had a problem with certain oil pumpwhich didn't injected enough oil, but vehicles were called to Mercedes so this pump was susbtituted. Finally, another person out of Mercedes claims this failure is still going on and every 651.955 which has not that oil pump susbtituted every 100.000 kms or 10 years has the same failure my Sprinter has had.
So, what I would like to ask you is if do you know any of all this talk is true. Are those engines "weaker" than usual, as rebuilders and junkyard claim? Is anybody aware of that problem in oil pump Mercedes dealers told me? Is it true that I must replace that oil pump every 10 years or 100.000 kms? And most important of all, do you think it is worth to spend the money on repairing this van or would I be taking too much risk in case of mounting an engine taken from a junyard? I can't spend 12.000 euros on a new engine, if I had that money I wouldn't had bought an ex-ambulance with 375.000 kms. I mean, are you aware that this engine is prone to cause problems again?
Thanks very much for reading this and your advice.
David
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