cellutron
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- Your Mercedes
- CDi SE/2003/2.2
I wonder, most of the time, about some form of a solution to my problems! (technically speaking, it is the problems associated with my car!). I spend a lot of time reading these and similar forums, but I never seem to get to the bottom of it! A lot of good hearted people write with passion, about interesting subjects on their Mercedes, but the harder I try to see the solution, the less I find helpfull the passionate articles! I must admit, this is not universal; on some small simple issues, there seems to be clear cut solutions.
I give an example, and this is a subject that through out years, nobody has come up with a remedy that is economical, ultimate and explicable! And that is the 'half-tank-run-out-of-gas' syndrome, on, practically, all CDi mercs, though most peculiar to 220CDi engines!
I can understand it is a complicated design- perhaps, stemming from the historical- German -extortion- related practices, to squeeze the last dollar out of your back pocket and force you to prostitution to fund the repairs! The Venturi principle, the saddle tank, the mechanical high and low pressure pumps, the flimsy plumbing set up, the filter monopoly and the many other things that I am sure to find, all lead me to think, there can't be a cheap solution, or any type of solution, but to resort to random replacing of horrendously priced parts and hope that resolves the issue, at a cost that exceeds the market value of your 10 year old vehicle- i.e., what is really done by the spotty teenage trainee mechanic at the main Mercedes dealer, who, very possibly, breaks a few other things or over torques some other bolts and nuts and spits on your enging too!
I am sure if I were to start with the floats and pipes, high and low presure pumps, line sensors, and all the pipes on top, I might eventually end up being able to extract the last drop of diesel from the other half of the tank before the red light can warn me of fuel shortage rather than stopping dead at a junction or in the third lane on motorway, when half- full! Or then again, there is no certainty that any of these actions would get the incumbent saddle tank to do its job like other fuel tanks.
So, I am happy to be a member of this forum and read threads with delight! Only wish that Mercedes were as good cars as they used to be in the golden olden years of the empire!
I give an example, and this is a subject that through out years, nobody has come up with a remedy that is economical, ultimate and explicable! And that is the 'half-tank-run-out-of-gas' syndrome, on, practically, all CDi mercs, though most peculiar to 220CDi engines!
I can understand it is a complicated design- perhaps, stemming from the historical- German -extortion- related practices, to squeeze the last dollar out of your back pocket and force you to prostitution to fund the repairs! The Venturi principle, the saddle tank, the mechanical high and low pressure pumps, the flimsy plumbing set up, the filter monopoly and the many other things that I am sure to find, all lead me to think, there can't be a cheap solution, or any type of solution, but to resort to random replacing of horrendously priced parts and hope that resolves the issue, at a cost that exceeds the market value of your 10 year old vehicle- i.e., what is really done by the spotty teenage trainee mechanic at the main Mercedes dealer, who, very possibly, breaks a few other things or over torques some other bolts and nuts and spits on your enging too!
I am sure if I were to start with the floats and pipes, high and low presure pumps, line sensors, and all the pipes on top, I might eventually end up being able to extract the last drop of diesel from the other half of the tank before the red light can warn me of fuel shortage rather than stopping dead at a junction or in the third lane on motorway, when half- full! Or then again, there is no certainty that any of these actions would get the incumbent saddle tank to do its job like other fuel tanks.
So, I am happy to be a member of this forum and read threads with delight! Only wish that Mercedes were as good cars as they used to be in the golden olden years of the empire!