Mercedes-Benz Discussion board: Oil Filter Cap Meeting Improve

Rereading this thread has obtained my curiosity going. I learn someplace that Daimler together with many different producers have gone with a canister sort filter as a result of they can not rely from the assorted manufacturers of spin on filters for the standard of the in-built reduction valve or even when they’ve one

my W124 M103 300 E used a spin on filter

they’re actually lots simpler and cleaner to vary

however all my present previous Mercedes – the 1996 SL 500, the 2000 E430, and the 2011 E350, use the canister filter

what I am getting at over studying that is that on the very least over time the spring on the reduction valve can get weak

wherein case the reduction valve is not working or is it completely open?

i am by no means given this a thought to those automobiles. Effectively it is solely the two E lessons because the M119 has a metal housing and I suppose with the identical subject however altering that will be a little bit of bother

so I suppose at 24 years previous I ought to not less than change the E430 though the stem shouldn’t be wobbly or something – it is all because it all the time has been

FWIW the automobile has had mobil 1 since new and when my mother and father had it they solely accrued 5 to 7000 miles a 12 months and we’d change it on an annual foundation

i am driving it extra and whereas I used FSS the earlier oil change altering it at 12,000 miles – I believe I will go together with 10,000 actual miles and never FSS miles sooner or later

truth I will pull the valve covers and put new gaskets and sealant on the breather covers and I am going to take an image of what this oil has carried out for the automobile over 24 years and 166,000 miles