[MBZ] No Glow, No Start, Car Far from Home

[Hendrik Riessen]

Faint buzz can be a relay trying to work but not having enough current 
can't.
Sounds like bad battery, did your dashlights go dim as you turned the key?
Having worked on Farms with tightwad Farmers who never spend any money on 
decent batteries I know the sound of relays not being able to work properly.
Then again you could have a short in the circuit which activated a buzzer.
I would take a spare battery, multimetre to check voltages and some tools. 
You might have to bypass some systems to get it to run, such as your 
glowplugs and starter relay.
Could be your altenator has died (well the thingy yingys in the alteranator 
which I can't remember the name of right now but happened to me in my old 
200, got us home with all sorts of electrical gremlins but the battery was 
dead and would not crank the car over).
Anyway best of luck

Hendrik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rentfro" <rrentfro at cox.net>
To: "Mercedes mailing list" <Mercedes at striplin.net>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:53 PM
Subject: [MBZ] No Glow, No Start, Car Far from Home


>I came out to my car tonight after having worked my 6th 12 hour shift in a 
>row at the old nuke plant...wanting nothing more than to get home, clean up 
>and have a cocktail...and the old girl wouldn't start. I turned the key, 
>got about a 0.5 second glow light then a faint buzz from beneath the dash 
>somewhere (my seatbely alarm has never worked btw). Turn the key...nada. I 
>checked the silver relays under the black cover on the wheelwell by the 
>cruise control and they were seated well in their place, but the red wire 
>going to the most forward one had come out of its connector. Those relays 
>look identical. Is one the glow plug relay?
>
> Remember...my car is 45 miles from my home.
> So...
> If you were going to go and rescue it tomorrow, what would you take to be 
> successful?  I'm thinking a new battery (I'm due...it had shown a little 
> weakening lately) at least. What about those relays? I had no precursors 
> of trouble at all.
>
> Any ideas? I get one whole day off to get 'er going again before I get to 
> do a 5 days on, 1 day off, 4 nights on, one night off, 4 nights on 
> stretch.
>
> Thanks smart friends...
>
> Bob Rentfro
> '77 300D 152K
> Litchfield Park, AZ
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