Hello everyone

I am new to the forum and pretty new to the diesel world. I havea fewyears experiance in the motorcycle and gas engine tuning.

I bought the 300sdl from my neighbor and have been doing well until 3 days ago. My glow plug light started not to come on and when (after many trys) the car starts in the mornings car has no power. I could not even drive up my driveway. Please help with some pointers what I should look for and do.

When I first got the car I had a liitle power issue, but that was due to a couple of vacuum lines cracked. After replacing the lines all was great and even took 2 long trips with the car. It drove like a dream.

 

Check your glow plugs, if one or two are bad the light won't come on.That will definitely make it hard to start

 

Thank you.. I will check it out...I hope you are right

 

my glow plug light doesnt come on either......i thought it was the bulb? maybe it is a bad glow plug?

????thoughts????

 

Blue, also make sure that the recall for the trap oxidizer was done. There are still a few 300SDL's out there that haven't had it removed/replaced.

As far as I know, it is still covered by Mercedes Benz at any dealership in the US, even if you are not the original owner of the car....