My 87 300D got parked outside on my 3rd bay garage pad when I took delivery of a new car 1.5 years ago. The battery in the diesel was finally dead, so car sat there non-driven, not rolled around, nothing. And this explains my absence from this board for corresponding amount of time, after doing a sell-off of my 2 spare parts cars.

Checked crank oil, wet, and in range. Coolant was down, loss from external dripping somewhere, so topped up with hose water.

Costco battery goes in yesterday, and one glow and 2 spins of the crank and the sucker fired up and idled like it did the day it was parked.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!

Confirming my theory this is THE doomsday Armageddon cockroach survivor of cars...

Brake discs nice and rusted from weathering... so grinding sounds there and entertaining slowing for the obligatory spin around the block.

Putting the foot into the go pedal caused my usual black puff (ALDA removed) and corresponding turbo spool up to 1 bar pressure as measured on the digital gauge I installed to keep an eye on that.

This sucker wants to live another 30 years.

I just had to share the news with people who know and appreciate how good this is. And of course, now this means I'll probably get active again on this forum now that the diesel is back in the good books with the family.

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Cheers!
Scott McPhee

1987 300D