I am with Curt on this one. As I shared in a different thread - I replaced all of mine for reasons I don't remember this summer and it starts GREAT, like when I got back from driving a bus for 10 hours back and forth to Chicago the other night and it was 4AM and the car was frosty. One 30 second glow and I was on the road heading to my warm bed. Pretty cheap insurance in my book. (And in the case being discussed far cheaper then marriage counseling.)
Peter On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Marshall and I used to fight about this. I'd suggested replacing all the > plugs pro-actively every 50,000 miles or so and always replacing all of > them at once. He was of the mind that you need only replace them when they > failed and only replace those that had failed. > > Under Marshall's rule I had to replace plugs in the dark at -10F once. > NEVER AGAIN! > > Both of my cars have plugs that are right around 1 year and 20,000 miles > old. At the first sign of problems all 4 in a car will be replaced at the > earliest possible opportunity. Theres nothing less fun than trying to start > a car without all the glowplugs... > > -Curt > > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:43:17 -0600 > From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Glow Plug Lifespan?? > Message-ID: <a06240829cb131f9015cc@[192.168.1.53]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > They live until they die. some quickly, others list long. varies by > type and manufacturer too. > > > >Howdy -- > > My 91 300D needed new GPs in 2006 at around 100K Miles. This > >week I noticed it wasn't starting as crisply as normal and tonight > >my wife tried to come home and it would not start. As luck would > >have it I had planned to replace the GPs in the morning. Oops! > >Just one day too late! > > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
