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

[andrew strasfogel]

I always thought that really COLD weather killed batteries faster than HOT
weather.



On 5/30/06, Bob Rentfro <rrentfro at cox.net> wrote:
>
> It was a bad battery...a bad, undersized battery.
>
> Bob Rentfro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marshall Booth" <mbooth+ at pitt.edu>
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <Mercedes at striplin.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] No Glow, No Start, Car Far from Home
>
>
> > Bob Rentfro wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Probably bad battery. They fail most often in HOT weather.
> >
> > Marshall
> > --
> >   Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
> >       "der Dieseling Doktor" mbooth at pitt.edu
> > '87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84
> > 190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)
> >
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