The owner is originally from Vietnam and his english is marginal. I have not found anything obvious. I do plan on waiting for the AutoLogic rep to come by and hook it up to see what it says. Otherwise, I'll advise the owner to have it hauled up to the dealer (80 miles away). I'm still going to be curious what exactly they end up finding. It would be interesting to see if MB designed it so that when this happens it would ONLY take out the pre-fuse. I'm thinking it may well be something internal to the pre fuse that may have gone bad but I was unable to open it up to inspect it.

I did find a bare spot on the small wire going to the starter solenoid. Taped it up and there was no difference.

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Jim