I have a E320 CDI with 130,000 km on the clock. Recently and unpredictably it has started to switch to emergency run mode: no kick down, does not go over 3000 rpm, lots of black smoke. Then when I stop and switch off the engine and restart the problem has gone away. I recently had a service and...
For those that are interested, here's Fangio in a W196 giving a Brabham-Repco F1, from about 10yrs later, a good run ...Vid is from Oz in 1978...good to watch..The maestro ain't hanging around...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbc5U6wTfUw&feature=related
Near where I work is a Subaru garage next to a BP petrol station.
I was travelling up a country lane from work and approaching the junction to an A road where I would turn left and towards the petrol station.
As I approached the junction this black Subaru absolutely flew past (must have been...