Nearly New & Approved Used Mercedes-Benz Cars

Nearly New & Approved Used Mercedes-Benz Cars

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The engines have not only demonstrated this impressively on the test bench, but also during intensive in-vehicle endurance trials under extreme conditions. In addition to extensive test bench trials, the new OM 651 engine generation in the Sprinter absolved around five million kilometres of endurance trials before it was cleared for series production. This mileage was covered by development and series-production vehicles, as well as during customer trials in real, day-to-day operations. In fact one third of these endurance kilometres were accounted for by customer vehicles in practical operations. The test vehicles covered many of their stretches under difficult conditions. If this factor is included, the endurance trials actually amount to 11.5 million kilometres. These operations ranged from heavy-duty customer use of all kinds to extremely arduous driving on test sites. Test vehicles were also sent on long-distance journeys at near maximum speed with the throttle floored. Test drives under low loads in distribution operations were no less demanding. The new engines also proved their worth under extreme climatic conditions: journeys through Finland at minus 30 degrees Celsius were supplemented with trials in the South African desert at plus 42 degrees.

Last not least, the new diesel engines have also impressively demonstrated their capabilities in Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. For this purpose alone, the engineers invested four years of development time, 100,000 hours of bench testing and ten million test kilometres on the road under the toughest conditions. This long-term durability is also partly due to the optimised cooling system, which has two water jackets. This ensures specific and effective cooling even where the greatest heat radiation occurs. At the same time this is one of the preconditions for the high maximum ignition pressure of 200 bar. The camshaft drive with a combination of gear wheels and a short chain does the rest to ensure a long operating life and reliability. The new engines are also designed for the addition of biodiesel to the fuel. Since the start of this year it has been permissible to add seven percent biodiesel to diesel fuel (B7). In fact the new engine will tolerate a proportion of ten percent (B10). The exemplary, long oil-change and service intervals of the Sprinter remain unchanged with the introduction of the new engines. The intervals continue to be 40,000 km for oil-changes and 80,000 km for servicing.

These intervals are flexible, and are monitored by the standard ASSYST service computer. Depending on the operating profile, the intervals can be extended by up to 10,000 km. One of the major advantages with respect to reliability, durability and therefore costs is the duplex chain camshaft drive. The new engines in the OM 651 series will initially be introduced in Sprinter versions registered as trucks. Introduction for models registered as passenger cars will follow. The previous engines remain available for markets which are not introducing Euro 5 for vehicles above 3.5 t gross vehicle weight in the autumn. With its brilliant technology, the three-litre OM 642 V6 engine - the only six-cylinder unit in Europe equipped with a six-cylinder unit - is one of the masterpieces of Mercedes-Benz engineering. This undersquare engine (bore x stroke 83 x 92 mm) is based on an aluminium crankcase with a V-angle of 72 degrees. Thanks to offset crankshaft crank pins and a balancer shaft, this engine runs more smoothly than any other diesel in its class. Other technical highlights include four overhead camshafts driven by a duplex chain and common-rail injection with piezo-electric injectors and eight-hole nozzles.