LethalTT

Boss brought over the Mercedes cause it was overheating....ok lets pull off the termostat....and WTF!!! Anyone ever seen this before. Thermostat is stuck in peanut butter looking crap. Thought cracked head so drained the oil and it looked perfect just jet black cause it runs 0W40. He has never put anything in but coolant and has owned car since it was new. Maybe its cracked and oil is running into coolant and not the other way around?

icntdrv55

Hmmm. Euro-compliant antifreeze that won't thin out at insane 240 kph Autobahn speeds?

Or Grey Poupon mustard....

LethalTT

LMAO...to make it worse the thermostat is seized in the housing....Great!!

Caeruleus Diabolus

The new-ish model Mercedes cars never cease to amaze me. lol

gdc

Looks like oil found it's way in.

PeterK

So ... did you order the new engine yet? How many miles on the car?

Closer_2001

My old man is running an E500 with almost 200k miles on it now. Runs like a top. He's probably spent $10k in maintenance on it since buying it used with 27k miles back in '07.

He recently had it in to have the spark plugs changed and a valve cover gasket. I was talking to his mechanic who suggested - "well when the engine quits, we'll order another one and drop it in."

I suggested - I don't think so. We'll rent a storage unit and part it out. It's worth $6-$8k whole running and $10k in parts (at least). I'll find him another one.

I thought his mechanic was going to cry. Mercedes dealers live off crap like this...

LethalTT

Gonna put some blue devil I'm it and take it to the nearest dealer...lol