Best engine oil for 124 300ce24v

[smoothcoupe]

I have a 300ce24 with 180,000 miles. It runs smoothly. What grade and make of oil would be recommended. I dont mind spending top money for top oil.

 

[grober]

A good quality semi synthetic 10W40 that meets MB 229.1 is fine such as this Fuchs TITAN XTR 10W/40 High Performance Semi-Synthetic Engine Oil

change it +filter every 5/6k miles

 

[ray_hennig]

Engine oil

I have a 300ce24 with 180,000 miles. It runs smoothly. What grade and make of oil would be recommended. I dont mind spending top money for top oil.

When I got my 300CE-24 from Mercedes with 135K KMs on the clock and 12 month MB warranty, it had fully synthetic 5W/40 oil. MB continued to put that in and so have I since it's been serviced locally.

It's now done 370K KMs and the engine seems fine.

RayH

 

[kth286]

you might be pleasantly surprised with the oil spec at Tesco Extra stores.

very competitive price for fully synthetic, and the spec is suitable for your generation car.

 

[grober]

When I got my 300CE-24 from Mercedes with 135K KMs on the clock and 12 month MB warranty, it had fully synthetic 5W/40 oil. MB continued to put that in and so have I since it's been serviced locally.

It's now done 370K KMs and the engine seems fine.

RayH

RAY do you use the 9,000 miles service interval?

 

[Horrgakx]

I SWEAR by Motul 300V. I use 15W/50 competition oil. I said in a thread a while ago that I ran my Mitsubishi FTO on it and it's still going with 220k miles on the clock, original engine, head has never been off.

I buy from Camskill as they're local to me.

 

[Ian B Walker]

My oil of preference for a 300-24 is Millers XSS 10w/40

 

[ray_hennig]

Service intervals

RAY do you use the 9,000 miles service interval?

No, I try to stick to the 10,000 Km oil change intervals (6000 mile?). Sometimes I've gone significantly over this but I'm not overly worried as most of my mileage is long-distance stuff. Usually the oil still retains some of it's 'golden' appearance so I sort of assume that this bodes well.

Having said that, I do recall that I got the interval info from the handbook from an earlier (M103) car. Anyway, my local garage always puts a ticket on the car after the oil change giving 10K Kms as the next change point.

Bonne chance.

RayH

 

[James1976]

I've been told 5-40 is fine, and it's what mine's always been run on from the service book. Semi-synthetic. However, I've also ready that with the M104 engine it's best to change the oil every 3k. Is this overkill as far as everyone's concerned? I'd never leave dark / dirty oil in it as far as I'm concerned - looking inside the filler flap all is golden and clean as a whistle - and this is the way I want to keep it if it's going to stack up mega miles over the next decade or so - as it probably will :0)

I would have thought fully synthetic Mobil 1 will p!ss out of it's seams as it's too thin?

 

[grober]

Every 3k is overkill for normal running. The colour of the oil is a good indicator- still all golden colour means everything is fine-its only when it starts to noticeably darken you want to review the situation. I routinely change the oil+ filter every 6,000 miles myself with a 10w40 semi-synthetic--- using a thinner 5w40 fully synthetic http://www.opieoils.co.uk/pdfs/New-Fuchs/TITAN-SUPERSYN-SAE-5W-40.pdf you could usefully extend this to 9,000 miles if most of your journeys are warm engine/ long distance in nature

 

[James1976]

Cheers Grober. I think I'll stick to the clean oil and up to 6k principle with semi-synthetic - should be fine and also won't cost the earth!