Originally Posted by Danno
Originally Posted by loneryder
Originally Posted by Danno
Had a fleet of 400 3.0 V6 turbo diesel Sprinters. I'd be curious on what you use for top up oil.
Newer Sprinters should be on 20k miles or 1 year oci
Do they have better/bigger filtration? I'd be interested other your experience with them. What oil did you use? OCI?
We used Mobil 1 M, 5W-40 229.51 spec,superceded by 229.52, with stock MB oil filters. I asked my MB HQ contact what the difference in earlier spec engines were, he couldn't point to any differences.
Maybe is was the 229.51 to 229.52 oil spec change.
Sprinters were generally not liked by the drivers. Unreliable being the big issue. They preferred driving a 2007 Ford E350 5.4L to a 2013 Sprinter. The Ford showed up to work every day. The Sprinter, not so much. And when the Sprinter went down, it could be 3 weeks before it was repaired.
The fleet stopped buying the Sprinter and moved to Ford Transit 3.2L Diesel DRW chassis cabs.
The (Dodge) Sprinters we had were boats, er, B.O.A.T.s, every time they broke down, it was bust out another thousand. Or multiple thousands, like the serpentine belt failure that ate the $3000 engine wiring harness, or the $11,000 transmission replacement. If one was "lucky", they started rusting from the inside out in impossible to repair places, like under the windshield. I thought Fords were bad until we got the Sprinters!
