This is timely.... I'm sitting at my tire guy's place while their boost charger gives the diesel some juice. If you recall, I ran it down last night but charged it back up after 45 minutes and it lit right off. Same thing this morning - lit right off after a short glow.
Tire guys brought out one of those jumper packs and it did nothing. I wasn't surprised. I'm going to charge the crap out of it when I get home and probably swap out the battery for the MB battery that was in the S500 coupe. It's been on a maintenance charger for a couple of months just waiting to be used. Dan > On Feb 21, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Save your money. I've never seen one with enough guts to start a Diesel. > It is better to carry a set of 4 ga to 0 ga jumper cables. Or, at lease 6 ga. > those will work to charge the battery enough to start the engine if you give > them 5-10 min of charging, but they will get hot. > > >> If I decided I wanted to have a jump start pack, how burly does it need to >> be to be able to, say, start the OM606 from dead battery status? >> >> Bob R > > First time I ever saw one, I was working for the Univ out at the old research > reactor site, driving the 240D. 15-20 below, the car would not start. The > univ jump start guys walk out with this jump pack thing and clip it on. It > was exactly like nothing was there. > > I politely suggested if they have real jumper cables, that they should try > that. They did, and it started right up. > > _______________________________________ > http://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 > _______________________________________ http://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
