Sounds to me like dragging brakes... check for warped rotors, sticky calipers, collapsed brake lines, dirt in bottom of MC reservoir, properly adjusted E-brake.

How is your MPG?



BTW- Seafoam is NOT a anti-microbial/fungus/whatever. I have used starton products w/ great success.

With 303k on the clock first thing I'd be wondering about is Timing Chain stretch. Has the timing chain ever been replaced? If not then injector pump and camshaft timing will suffer and performance will drop radically. Am nursing a stretched timing chain myself with the 240D. It now gets horrible fuel mileage and drops 15mph at extreme uphills on highway runs.

Best method to check rotors
 

Would the best method of checking rotors be to jack car up and spin wheel? If the wheel turns slowly or feels tight it may be a warped rotor? Kind of a dumb question , I know.

I just had the brakes(rear) done before I put the car in the garage for the winter. The front brakes were done at the beginning of last year(2005), complete with rotors.

I am thinking that the injectors may need cleaning because the engine is running a little rough. The vehicle will start easy but idles kind of rough and will shake like a motor mount is missing.

Thank you for your time everyone.

Talked to local mechanic
 

I talked to my mechanic that repaired the rear brakes. Mechanic said that if I had a warped rotor, then you would feel the pedel "jump" or "bump". I told him that I felt neither.

So I still think my course of action is the injectors. How about new injectors? What would be an average cost of replacing old injectors with new ones?

Also the mechanic told me something about the injector pump(replacing)

I think my cheapest and most sensible thing to do is to clean my old injectors.

if the brakes are dragging they will get pretty hot

tom w