Autozone brought one out and started my '83 300D during the summer. I don't know if it was one they sell or not. It was pretty small and I had my doubts it would start it, but it did very quickly. I had gone down to buy a battery late in the evening but they wouldn't install one since it was drizzling rain. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 12:06:41 -0600 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 > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.6189 / Virus Database: 4533/11672 - Release Date: 02/21/16 > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.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
