1998 W210 E300.

Sunday I was loaded up and about to leave the track for home, insert key, Glow, turn key to start... Nothing. battery is fine.
I did this several more times over a 10 minute period. I tried neutral/park/ and neutral again suspecting a trans switch. Still nothing. No noise no indication of life nothing. Everything else operated as normal. Everything on the dash cycled as normal, glow plug sequence appeared normal. The Climate control fan was blowing strong (power seemed ok). But turn key and NOTHING.

After 10 minutes, finally another attempt and the 'start sequence' executed.
I drove 5 hours home stopping twice and never shutting the car off.

Monday morning, it started fine.

Any insight?
Suggestions?

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85 300D 3 pedal. Current project.
83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

No start meaning, no crank or no fire? If no crank, I would suspedt the starter solenoid. Like in the old days, takes a couple taps with a hard object to bring it back online.

Only problem is that it's totally covered by the intake.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

1998 E300 DT Intermittent No-Start...Help!

Could also be the key switch or EIS module, but my fix is easy to try and cheap too.

Also, I think the relay in question is part of the K40 relay set, so if you have not replaced that recently just replace the whole K40...it is located in the same box under the hood.

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Marty D.

2013 C300 4Matic
1984 BMW 733i
2013 Lincoln MKz