Mechanic Needed - Starting Problem with 1993 Brooklands

[GregE240]

Asking on behalf of my old man. Normally he would take the car to his mechanic, but our man is on holiday for 2 weeks.

The problem is starting from cold. It takes a long time to fire, almost as though it's without choke - its fuel injection, non turbo.

Has anyone got a mechanic who could look at it, around the Kingston, New Malden area, or even a mechanics phone number he might speak to?

Any help much appreciated.

Greg

[bergxu]

'93 ought to have a coolant temp sensor that feeds a cold start valve, as this is Bosch CIS. Typically hard starting from cold would be a fault with either the sensor or the valve itself. Anyone well versed in older Mercedes repair should be able to troubleshoot and sort this no problem. Possible too, that the accumulator is not holding pressure in the nozzles, but this usually manifests itself as a hot start issue more so than a cold start issue. Can't help with any mechanic recommendations though, as I'm in the States


Cheers,
Aaron

[MULLINER]

Hello Greg,

There are two people quite close

Nigel Sandell Tel [phone]

Hanwells Tel [phone] ( Peter in the workshop)

Good luck

[revs88]

I can highly recommend Nigel Sandell...had my SS serviced there a month or so back.

[GregE240]

Thank you guys

Update: Dad has got hold of his former mechanic who retired back in 2007; he is round at Dads at the moment.

Thanks to Aaron's post last night, Dad checked the sensor which looks as though it was actually recently replaced, which makes sense as the problem is a reoccurance - it manifested itself originally a few months ago, and has reoccured after a period of the starting being fine.

I will update you as soon as the mechanic is finished - for information he is a guy called Mick Hall, who used to run a place called Haines & Hall in Morden, Surrey.

[ADP68]

Mick hall is a good guy,used to run the seminars at hunt house. Of the list given, you'll never hear anything bad about nigel, who looks after my cars. A true gent.

[GregE240]

Hi chaps

Sorry to resurrect the thread, but the car still isn't back on the road

The problem has been narrowed down to (I think) the crack position sensor, or maybe its called the angle sensor.

The only problem is, the only one available is in the US

Having said all that, the majority of ignition related ancillaries on the car seem to be Bosch, and adopting the same logic that I apply on my SL, there must be a Bosch part number or equivalent for this part? I've asked Dad to speak to his mechanic to suggest this.

Has anyone had one of these replaced? Is there a place my dads mechanic might have overlooked?

[RedOctober]

If it's a Bosch part then get the part number & Google search it-it often throws up Bosch suppliers in the UK & also a lot on ebay

My '96 Turbo R has individual Bosch ignition coils. Buy them from the Bentley parts suppliers & they want about £120 each or more. Buy them directly from Bosch suppliers & they're less than half that-or on some occasions even less than that...