[MBZ] **wiring harness on the W140 Diesel **

[Curt Raymond]

32 was the average over only the first 6,000 miles of ownership. That includes a tank at 28mpg when I was fighting with summer fuel when I first bought it, so there was alot of driving up and down my apartment complex street in 1st to get the fuel warmed up. Then another tank at 26mpg when my Indy was replacing seals in the IP.
  So more recent tanks are much closer to 38, my rough calculation of today's fillup is 37, It'll probably end up a little low, I put in a quart of motor oil as a tonic when the tank was nearly empty. I'll put it and the two before it into my spreadsheet tonight and see what that does to the average.
  I'm also blowing out ALOT of crud from the previous owner. I've had those instances where I left a huge smokescreen. Second oil change on my watch should be this weekend assuming the filter arrives in time.
   
  -Curt
  '85 190D "Dory" 241kmi
   
  Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:28:40 -0400
From: Marshall Booth <mbooth+ at pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] **wiring harness on the W140 Diesel **
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Curt Raymond wrote:
> Is that all? I'd hoped for better since I'd been thinking of building 
one someday. My 240D would average around 28mpg but that was almost 
exclusively highway driving 80-90 miles a day. 
>    
>   My 190D is averaging only a little better at around 32mpg but that 
includes so bad tanks while it was leaking fuel dragging the average 
down. I've only just gotten myself out of the habit of driving with the 
pedal to the floor which in most cases the 190D doesn't need. I'm also 
trying to decrease my average speed which should increase mileage.
>    
>   -Curt

Is your 190D an automatic? 32 is really quite poor unless it all city 
driving. I ALWAYS drive my 190D 2.x s (5 spd or auto) with the pedal to 
the floor!! That make remarkably little difference. Highway speeds much 
above 60 will lower mileage, but on the highway my auto always did 
better than 35 and the 5 spds better than 38.. It took a year or more 
(20+kmi) after I switched to synthetic oil before they got there 
though! 
Had to blow out all the crud that was left from the previous owners I 
guess.

Marshall
-- 
   Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
       "der Dieseling Doktor" mbooth at pitt.edu
'87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84 
190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)


 		
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