Yes, we've all been there, so I'll be happy to share.... So I took the day off today to go with the wife and her sister, who is visiting, to the Sunken Gardens, a relic of the "old Florida" tourista places. We take her car, the 2005 Mazda 6, since mine is not adequate for three adults.
As I drive her car over to St. Pete, it's missing and surging something awful. The CEL is flashing occasionally as well. Great. I ask, "Oh dear, has you car been acting up lately?" "Yeah, it's been running poorly since yesterday." (Great. NOW she tells me.) I chide her for not telling me about before we left, or better yet, last night when she got home. A good example why I'm not keen about her driving an MB, as I fear that a situation such as this would be ignored until it escalated into something critical. Grrr. To her a car is nothing more than transportation. So we get home this afternoon and I immediately put my scanner on it. P0306, both constant and pending, meaning that the COP for the number six cylinder has gone south. I'm thinking I'm living right, as cylinders one through three in this car are in back and under the intake manifold, a job that is not for the faint of heart and something I've already deferred to the dealer in the past. Cylinders four through six are right in front under an easily removable plastic cover. Whew! I get online and using my perpetual 30% discount code for the Advanced Auto that's nearby, I order one for pickup. I take my car out and drop off my dry cleaning and pick up the COP. Get back home, pop the cover off the engine, and in ten minutes I'm done. Time for a test drive. I realized I needed to replenish my supply of cold beverages, so I drive to the nearby grocery store to pick some up. The car runs like crap. Damn! Fortunately, I had left the code scanner in the car and connected, so I was scanning while I'm driving only to see the P0306 code again. What??? Hmm. Could be a bad coil out of the box, could be a fouled plug..... I get back home, toss the hood open and once again remove the plastic cover. I forgot to plug the coil in. <head slap> Dan _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
