Hello Tom Not really worried about cold weather starting in the long term. I don't drive the car through the winter. I will park it in the garage on Halloween and not drive it until probably April of 07. I just have it on the street now as I have another project sitting in its garage spot temporarily and it has turned a bit cold here. It did not want to start the other night after sitting for a few days. The battery appears strong and it will start fine if I plug in the block heater for an hour - maybe less but I have not tried that. I just wondered if it indicated a glow plug issue as it tried to start but not on all cylinders. It has also been suggested that I need to check the valve adjustment as it could be that a couple are too tight and I am losing compression when it is cold.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:43 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] cold(er) weather starting issues? Randy A few things. 1. Good battery. 2. Convert from the looptype glow plugs to the filement type mercedessource.com has a conversion around 100 dollars US and an easy job. Biggest thing you can do. 3. Block heater. If you do not have one get one and put it in lower radiator hose. KAT makes them or replace on in you block if not working 4. Battery warmer. When it gets real cold 10 F or less I use a 110volt heating pad (which does not have auto shutoff) and I wrap the battery and putt a blanket or something to insulate the thing 5 Get a 110 volt timer to feed an extention cord with multiply plugs. Hope this helps/Tom Scordato 1979 240D
