MBinNashville- I feel your pain. I'm in Smyrna and just check the weather on the internet and with the wind chill we're at 4 degrees. I had to go into work this morning- went to start my 300D up and no luck. Let the GP's cycle through one more time and it started up. Funny thing is, when I left work (in Brentwood) I had to cycle them four or five times until it started. Didn't even turn over. I was thinking the battery was dead but I've put two batteries in this car over the past two years or so. I know I've got some electrical gremlins but can they be causing the battery to die this quickly. It's an MB battery.

My brother has a 300CD and had trouble starting his this morning too. He just had a local guy do a valve adjustment on his a couple months ago and was running fine since. All our cars are FL cars so they're not used to this type of weather- also, being FL cars they don't have block heaters. It doesn't help either we live in an apartment complex so our cars are parked outside too. We're going to give our cars a little run tonight before going to bed so they warm up a little.

Good luck!

-DieselClan

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*1985 300CD, 214K miles, Pearl Black/Palomino MB Tex-Stuck in FL
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