Mostly short trips in the Golf? Angie's '03 makes plenty of heat but not for
the first couple miles. My '15 makes excellent heat and pretty quick but I
think its got the extra injector running to heat the engine up faster. Fuel
economy suffers in the winter, even worse than you'd otherwise expect.
My '98 had good heat but took a long time to get there, like 5-6 miles of
driving before even a whiff of heat would come out. It took a good half hour
before that engine was all the way warmed up and pumping out heat. Fortunately
the cabin was pretty small so it warmed up pretty quick.
-Curt
On Sunday, November 29, 2020, 6:34:58 PM EST, Peter Frederick via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
At long last I replaced the coil in the TE, wanted to some time back but my
friend Hans talked me out of it, he suspected fuel injectors instead to account
for the rough idle and other assorted ills, including difficulty setting the
mixture on the KE-Jet.
Popped it in, charged the battery (with Mom getting more and more frail I've
not been driving either Benz lately) and fired it up. Took right off, runs
like a top. No more stalling after starting, no long cranking, very little
stumble off a stop.
Most important it doesn't fall on it's face as soon as it warms up now. Ran
out of time to finish the job, was about to get the volt meter out and set the
mixture when my brother called to help him install a new alternator in his
wife's car. Hae had carpal tunnel surgery a week and a half ago and isn't
supposed to be using it.
Not bad, although the bolts won't slide out of the bushings, they have to be
screwed out. At least that 2005 240 has a spring tensioner, not the self
destructing one in the TE.
A good day -- I prefer to drive the Benz in the winter, the Golf almost never
gets warm and I'm getting old enough for that to matter.
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