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Old 07-26-2025, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by biggamefish1 View Post
Buy an electric vehicle and you will have 0 worries about the oil level or changes
That’s exactly why we are fully ev as of 2017
Rivian PU, bolt, Kona, and Ioniq in family .
Last straw was oil indicator on Benz Sprinter in 2018 said ‘one qt low’
It’s was a diesel w/14 qt sump capacity a
- one qt low 6 miles from hone no biggie.then 3 miles our 2 qt low, still no biggie.
200 yards away the freak show started with never-before-heard noise.
Next day on the same route I saw the trail of oil along the 7 mike route.
Turns out Sprinters ( likely others) only go up to 2 qt low force indicator.
$10k repair, and another $8k 6 mo later to fix first repair.
9 years old 38k miles.
My stinking John Deere tractor will not let you start with low oil or oil pressure.
Is MB that lame?
ICE no more.
Take your dead dinosaur burning vehicles and give us those free amperes which come right off our roofs in TV and back up north
Except for a cup holder and door pocket on Rivian and a free new battery on the bolt, no repairs ever in a combined 200k miles of abusive, neglectful use.
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