NegrodePazos
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Hello, I'll introduce myself; my name is Agustín. I'm from Uruguay. Some time ago I bought myself a W220 S320 CDI as a 20th birthday gift. I know in Europe it isn't anything extremely special, but in my country is a very expensive car for a 20 year old who's studying and working a part time job (it costed me about 30.000 USD). The car is in good condition, but it costed me a lot of effort, so every "weird" thing that it makes gets me awfully scared. But there's something in particular that is driving me nuts.
Everyday, before starting a trip, I star the car like 5 minutes befores, so it warms up a little. As you start the car, it gets running perfectly, although 30 or 40 seconds after, the exhaust note changes. It gets a lot deeper, as if the engine "opens up". I thought it was normal and never payed attention to it. Until a couple days ago. I had the car parked in the street, and I was in a hurry. I started the car and started driving without waiting for the sound to change. What surprised me was that the car felt a lot more "athletic". Throttle response had been always a little bit lethargic. But that day, as I drove it inmediately after it started, it was perfect. In fact, the car felt like a bullet. Extremely quick and responsive. There was a lot less turbo lag. And you could hear the turbo sound a lot louder. As I stopped in a traffic light, the sound changed after some idle, and the car felt as always. Reasonably quick, but lazy. It's a W220 320 CDI, pre-facelift. Any thoughts about this? I know there are lots of experienced people in this forum. I entrust myself to you
Everyday, before starting a trip, I star the car like 5 minutes befores, so it warms up a little. As you start the car, it gets running perfectly, although 30 or 40 seconds after, the exhaust note changes. It gets a lot deeper, as if the engine "opens up". I thought it was normal and never payed attention to it. Until a couple days ago. I had the car parked in the street, and I was in a hurry. I started the car and started driving without waiting for the sound to change. What surprised me was that the car felt a lot more "athletic". Throttle response had been always a little bit lethargic. But that day, as I drove it inmediately after it started, it was perfect. In fact, the car felt like a bullet. Extremely quick and responsive. There was a lot less turbo lag. And you could hear the turbo sound a lot louder. As I stopped in a traffic light, the sound changed after some idle, and the car felt as always. Reasonably quick, but lazy. It's a W220 320 CDI, pre-facelift. Any thoughts about this? I know there are lots of experienced people in this forum. I entrust myself to you
