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Originally Posted by joegolden
car cranks but no start. drove home from work Christmas eve no problems other than rough cold start and idle and the usual smoke. But always warmed up and ran perfect. would hot start without glowing everytime. Got up Christmas morning and nothing. Just cranks. Like it was outa fuel. My indy got it to start by shootin some ethyr or gas in it. I cant remember which one. When he cut it off he could not get it to run EVER again. So I dont know. I just know I sure miss driving it.  |
Sure sounds like no glow to me... have the glow plugs all be checked, and also the 80A fuse in the glow relay? On a side note, any "mechanic" who starts a Mercedes diesel with either gas OR ether (starting fluid) does NOT know what he's doing. I would not take the car back to that guy.
The plugged cat is another possibility. I assume the car already has the trap oxidizer removed under recall, and it has the cat downstream under the car. I would think if that was plugged, the car would fire, or try to fire, but not continue running. But, I've never experienced this failure before, and my cat mysteriously fell off the car a few years back so I doubt it will be a problem in the future.
