Has Mercedes Always Been This Bad?

I never drove or worked on Mercedes (apart from fitting some fan belts to one from Germany with a non tilting cab at Leicester Forest services back in the 70’s) but we had a couple of OD/s who had four wheeler tippers and they ran them for at least ten or more years with few problems. I think they were of 1982 vintage? One lad carting blocks was given a unit with EPS and, after a few initial missgivings, reckoned it was a great system? I don’t know how reliable it was though.

Pete.