Cylinder 6 Misfire
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Cylinder 6 Misfire
I currently am driving a 1995 C280 with an inline 6.
This morning my CEL came on and the car began missing badly. I then limped it to the autozone down the street and plugged it in to see that only my 6th cylinder was missing. I then replaced all 6 plugs (figured id replace all if only one was bad) it was still missing. I then threw on a different coil and it was still missing. As a last ditch effort i ran a compression test only to see that it stil has perfect compression. So if it is not the coil, plugs, or a bad cyl, could it be a fuel issue?
So im kinda at a loss, any ideas?
Yes, the wiring harness has been replaced :-)
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This morning my CEL came on and the car began missing badly. I then limped it to the autozone down the street and plugged it in to see that only my 6th cylinder was missing. I then replaced all 6 plugs (figured id replace all if only one was bad) it was still missing. I then threw on a different coil and it was still missing. As a last ditch effort i ran a compression test only to see that it stil has perfect compression. So if it is not the coil, plugs, or a bad cyl, could it be a fuel issue?
So im kinda at a loss, any ideas?
Yes, the wiring harness has been replaced :-)
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It cant be a wire as the coil sits directly on top of that plug, and then runs a wire to the cyl 1 which is still firing, because thats what i originally thought as well...
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i have a 99' c280 v6, how do you change the spark plugs? A buddy of mine was changing the clk320 v6 spark plugs and he told me it took him like 5 hours to do that, i don't think german engineers would make our life tougher like that so could you please tell me if there's a trick or something?
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i have a 99' c280 v6, how do you change the spark plugs? A buddy of mine was changing the clk320 v6 spark plugs and he told me it took him like 5 hours to do that, i don't think german engineers would make our life tougher like that so could you please tell me if there's a trick or something?
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Just got a call from the shop, apparently it is something completely easy that i overlooked and yes you can all laugh at me because when checking the coil, i never actually checked the sparkplug boot, but i checked directly on the coil.
A faulty boot is what caused the mis-fire so i spent $100 to diagnose a $12 part
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i have a 99' c280 v6, how do you change the spark plugs? A buddy of mine was changing the clk320 v6 spark plugs and he told me it took him like 5 hours to do that, i don't think german engineers would make our life tougher like that so could you please tell me if there's a trick or something?
