What would cause this? Just trying to have a clue before I take it in....

when missfire is detected [those engines have plug wire issues] the ecu shuts down the offending cylinder injector.

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Most likely, it's a bad plug-wire set for that cylinder. As David said, there's problems with the "wires".

Saw this first hand and had a hard time believing what I saw at my tech's shop. The plug wire looked ok but it was open! And they only 8" or so, amazing!

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The problem is the resistor boot under the coils..very common on this last of the Waste Spark ignition DIS systems.
Change all 3 of them. [ one under each coil /DIS system]
Leave the plug wires alone until you change these 3 coil connectors.
Techs change these automatically when doing plugs change on 104's b/c of their failure rate.

http://catalog.worldpac.com/mercedesshop/sophio/quote.jsp?clientid=catalog.mercedesshop&cookieid=2AO123CS42BD0O5777&baseurl=http://catalog.peachparts.com/&partner=mercedesshop&year=1999&product=F1010-84561&application=000357360

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I would also change the plugs while I was there b/c these great systems still take the Bosch NON Resistor Super Core plugs and they are dirt cheap..use NO OTHER but F8DC4 in 104 DIS engines..they love this plug

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