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Originally Posted by nscarr
hey there,
the car (1980 300D) started after charging the battery some more--thanks for the reminder. so now i'm happy to report that after installing the fast-glow pencil plugs (my car apparently already had the fast-start relay) it's a quick 10 second glow and starts without needing to step on the accelerator.
i still have a flashing situation on my dash glow plug light--i've read this is an indication that something is wrong, but for now i'm happy it's starting and i'll look into this more after working on that durn transmission.
thanks!
noah
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Sounds like you glad too be back on the road.
You installed new GPs then? Usually if a glow plug is bad and not warming the cylinder like it should, that unburnt fuel will come out the tail pipe as smoke and you'll have a rough idle till the engine warms up. On the other hand I personally haven't had my indicator light act up without something being wrong. Your "flashing lights" could be a bad ground, in which case a new ground from the instrument cluster might solve the problem.
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