Is it really cold? Our diesel hasn't done this, but I have heard a couple other W210 diesel owners complaining of such behaviour on their diesels when it was -20 or colder. If memory serves, it was some flap sticking, as M.B. Doc has described...

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

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