If the glow light on the dash isn't coming on, that suggests your glow relay isn't functioning. No glow relay means no juice to the glowplugs.

Take off the cover on the relay and make sure the plug for the injector wiring harness is still in place. It would be possible that you yanked on it while doing other work on the car. If the plug is okay, make sure the metal strip fuse is intact. If these check out, then I would assume the relay has failed internally. They don't last forever.

Fix it as soon as possible, as you aren't doing any favours to your starter with all that cranking.

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If by 'regular coolant' you mean prestone or the equivalent, you should plan to drain that out, flush the system then use either Mercedes coolant or Zerex G-05. Prestone isn't formulated for these cars.

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