I don't actually know but I suspect its something like: The coolant leaks into a chamber thats a bazillion degrees during regeneration, the water boils out of the coolant and the resulting "stuff" is hot enough to ignite.
-Curt On Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 2:53:30 PM EDT, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: So, the engine overheats when the coolant leak becomes an issue and that causes the soot to ignite? RB On 24/10/2018 1:37 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > It says the fire is around the exhaust filter which is where soot gets >burned up, presumably it gets really hot in there... > -Curt > > _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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