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

[Jim Cathey]

> 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

Ahh, the sound of the little battery that couldn't...

> 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?

Never.  Prior to the big black one on the fender with a snap-on cover,
the relay lived under the dash.  Big and silver, and several times the
size of the little ice cube relays.

Your battery ain't doing the job, but _why_ this is so is
much less certain.  Age, neglect, evil servo action, charging
system out of whack...

-- Jim