After at least 15 years of hard service, many TB11 12-cylinder 218 series diesel engines were coming to the end of their useful life. From 1996, MTU switched the production of locomotive diesel motors to the Type 4000, which was available with eight, twelve and 16 cylinders and was much more compact than the massive TB10 and TB11. In the 218, the 16-cylinder MTU 16V 4000 R40 and R41 was used for repowering, of which DB AG ordered 80 units. The engines are set for an output of 2682 hp at 1800 rpm and accelerate the 218 to 140 km/h. In contrast to the TB11 engines, the 4000 series have four small turbochargers, which, in addition to the significantly smaller displacement and the higher working speed, ensure a significantly different noise.

Make sure that index CV31 is set to 16 and index CV32 is set to 1 before changing a volume CV.