Starting question

[JBoggs]

My 83 380sl occassionally will not crank. What I mean by that is every so often, when it hit the key, nothing happens. If I move the shifter around from P to N and back, it fires right up.

Yesterday, I was doing a cylinder compression test so I had to crank it a bunch and it was not cranking more than 50% of the time. New battery, good starter, cranks fine when it does.

Q: What does that sound like?
Do these cars have neutral safety switches?
Maybe a bad ignition switch?

Thanks. Don't want to get stuck somewhere.

J. Boggs

[euro 287]

Make sure shifter bushings are good and then replace neautral safety switch.

[JBoggs]

Thanks.

J. Boggs

[euro 287]

On drivers side of tranny.