My 81 300D won't start! About 3 days ago (exactly coinciding with our first snowfall and freeze) my old battery died completely. It is a bad battery, will not recharge fully, etc. So, after trying to recharge the battery and start the car, I bought a new battery. Much better turning over, but it still won't start.

I checked my haynes manual and did a careful search of these archives but nothing seems to be "clicking" as what might be the answer.

I unpluged the glowplug relay (in the little black box in the corner of the fender - Thanks Larry Bible) and checked all the plugs for continuity - every single one of them have have continuity with the ground. Is this right? If not - why would all the glowplugs go wrong at once?

The metal fuse bar is good.
I didn't have any real problems starting it before.
Suspect that there might be something wrong with my vacuum as it was beginning to delay shutting off for a few seconds after turning off the switch.

One other thing that may help you all help me. When installing the battery, I didn't have it all the way in and it touched the bonnet and made a hissing and left a small circle of clean melted metal on the bonnet. Battery seems to work fine, but would that have had an impact on the glowplugs, etc.

THanks for your help,


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81 300D 250K+ (odo doesn't work!)
Want another one.