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Originally Posted by vtmbz
Just returned from an epic trip to far northern newfoundland in the Benz—2700 miles in a week. I left knowing I had one dead glow plug from the smoky start.
Halfway through I lost my second glow plug— the dash light went dead. The old girl still started but only with 45 sec of cranking. On three it fired immediately.
Back home I pull the plugs and find two of them are still glowing so I’m wondering why it didnt start more readily. You’d think two plugs would get it to running pretty quickly, when I let it glow until the relay went off. Am I just wrong about that or is something else the matter? I checked the strip fuse and it was fine.
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A lot has to do with the outside temperature your working in. In the winter here in New Jersey, my E300D had one bad plug, and still started in temperatures in the high 20s. The engine ran rough for about a minute or two, but evened out quickly once it was running. The actual starting time was longer than it would have been with all the plugs working.