BrokenCdi

This forum has been of great help to me, so i figured i'll contribute a bit as well in hope this helps somebody down the line...

Happened out of nowhere. Battery voltage good. Ignition on, no glow plug light, tried to crank, nothing happens. Esp malfunction and visit workshop message pops up in the display. Put on jump starter pack and the car starts fine, no malfunction codes. This was happening more frequent and within 2 weeks i had to hook up the jump starter pack every time in order to start the car. Very frustrating. Eventually it got to the point where the glow plug light wouldn't come on even with the jumper pack... Long story short, turned out to be a faulty ecu. Had it sent out to be repaired, and all is well now and i can continue on my journey of bringing the car to factory like condition and drive the crap out of it...

Happy motoring my fellow enthusiasts

kasteveb

I am having the same problem with my ECU. Can you recommend the place of where you sent your ECU for repair?

BrokenCdi

Had my local mb specialist remove the ecu and send it in for repair. They sent it to bluelink diagnostics. Car has never missed a beat since.

EdKramer

What process did you go through to finally identify the ECU as being faulty? Did you change anything else on the way, and if so did it make any difference, even for a short while? It's details like this that are really useful.

hgroeger

EdKramer: did you get this issue resolved, and if so how?

rapidoxidation

How old are the batteries?