31-07-15, 09:53 PM
(31-07-15, 09:41 PM)fazerscotty link Wrote: Ohh another thing - the Foccin oil pump on my Mercedes. Only 175,000 miles on the thing and it feckin seized, engines BER, cars scrapped and the Germans planned for a 1000 year reich! I don't think so Hans - make your shit a little stronger and you may have done better 70 years ago!!!!!!Thats pathetic! One of our 300 series LWB diesel Sprinter vans ran to 500000 miles before giving up the ghost. It was the "full power" version 5 speed box and the only trouble I ever had was a split turbo hose temporarily repaired with yards of gaffer tape. it spent most of its life in the "fast lane" in the region of the National SpeedLimit(officially anyway!) :lol [size=78%] The accountants at MB advised the company to cut costs about 17 years ago which led to a spate of reliability/warranty issues in the early noughties.[/size]
On a separate note concerning German cars, dont ever think about getting to the water pump on certain Audis-have to strip half the engine out first! :eek