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JamesDean · #36 01-31-2010, 11:36 PM

Alright so, a few of my friends and I were getting together tonight to work on some homework and my one friend has a 90' 300SE, we actually just did a tune-up on it a few days ago. He got here and came down to tell us that he heard a whining sound when he parked the car and turned off the motor. He ran in my house, grabbed a wrench and disconnected the battery. After looking a bit he discovered that his start was glowing red. Apparently it had been running the entire time on his 20 minute journey to my house.

Not really wanting to pay for a tow truck, we toyed with the idea of tow-starting it. I have two 300SD's and my 190E..alas we had no tow strap. He has a 06 Jeep Wrangler at his house, so we drove back and picked up the Jeep.

We deemed the likelihood of success to be fairly low, we predicted that the 300SE would go flying into the back of the Jeep and I would ended up with an airbag to the face and the SE's front end would be demolished by a ball hitch and spare tire.

However, it actually was quite uneventful and worked the first time. 300SE's speedo read a little higher than 20, I jammed the transmission into "2" and a second or two later the engine popped on.

We'd never done this before, and the people that I talk to regularly from here hadn't before either so it was a first.

So if you're ever in similar situations and have a pre-91 era vehicle you should be good to give this a try.