W124 - Starting issues

[Guest qes78]

Man,

Over the past week, the W124 has died on me twice.

First time round, i towed the car, replaced with a new Maintenance free Battery (S$180) and new Starter (Valeo-S$330).

Drove for a week before........

Towing it (out of a Multi Story Car Park), changing the starter (borsch-S$200)

I hope that's the end of it....towing is expensive.....and a waste of good time.

[keltanky]

check your ignition coil.!!

[Guest alumetal]

Happens to my on my w124 previous.

My prob was the fuel pump..... cannot start at all.

Trick is to use an umbrella and knock at the bottom.... wake-up the pump.

Yeap ... also check the igination coil too.

[Guest qes78]

I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that's the end of it all..

But thanks for the advice....will bear in mind

[Guest alumetal]

keep us update.

[Guest qes78]

keep us update.

car seems to be ok.

Duno why the rear passenger foot wells were soaked though. When I collected the car, the seats and carpets at the vertical portions all dry, but the foot weels were soaked underneath the floor mats. Carpet was entirely soaked

[keltanky]

go check your spare tyre well and its side well. If there is H2O.. Then you are going to have headache reaching for the leak! :surrender:

[Guest qes78]

go check your spare tyre well and its side well. If there is H2O.. Then you are going to have headache reaching for the leak! :surrender:

No water there

Phew!

[Guest alumetal]

seems to me there is either a leak on the rear windscreen or the door seal.

[Guest alfman]

This happen to once when i drove a w124, There are drain holes with stopper underneath the carpet and rubber foam . The stopper might have came loose so all the water on the road when raining g came in from the drain hole.I hope it helps

[Guest qes78]

I'm hoping to hell that it was just a water bottle that leaked. Will update when I can.

Hardly drive the 124, only on weekends. My daily mode of commode uses much less gas...