IIRC Hursty said the Beru GPs were way better than the Bosch ones. I've only used Beru I think so I can't comment on Bosch.
I will say that GP life seems to be directly related to the number of starts you make. My '83 240D had new plugs (outside at 10F) in about 2004. They were fine until I bought the car back in 2008 and 3 of 4 were bad. The car had been mostly city driven during its time out of my ownership though... -Curt Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:39:27 -0400 From: glenn brown <g_010...@hotmail.com> To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] glow plugs - live & learn Message-ID: <snt140-w2808f90db93fdfa236e6d6f0...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I had an experience yesterday where my '84 300D would not start and the dash glow plug lite would not lite and, since the glow plug fuse is fine, I checked the resistance (Fluke VOM) of the Bosch glow plugs which I installed in '06. I found two of the plugs (#3 & 4) had infinite resistance so I installed a couple of the original Behr glow plugs pulled in '06 and still reading good. I've since ordered a set of Behr glow plugs from Rusty. Is this a common occurance where the Behr glow plugs have substantially greater longevity than the Bosch glow plugs? Note: I purchased this car in '96 from the estate of the original purchaser and, since the M-B dealer from where it was originally purchased was closing its doors, I obtained all the service records for this car and found no glow plug replacements. TIA. G. M. Brown Brevard, NC _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
