Hello fellow members.
I have a 55 reg 270clk 270cdi which has been stood for couple of weeks & I went to start it last Thursday & it only just started, I went to it today & it turned over but very slowly then it died so we jumped it off a pick up whilst I put the jump leads on the pick up my friend connected the jump leads to the Merc but unbeknown to me he had connected the jump leads directly to the battery & not to the red positive terminal on the top of the strut & when the car started up I noticed that there were no temp/fuel gauges, no speedo, no rev counter in fact nothing on the dash was working. Could putting the jump leads directly onto the battery maybe caused an electrical problem?
I have a 55 reg 270clk 270cdi which has been stood for couple of weeks & I went to start it last Thursday & it only just started, I went to it today & it turned over but very slowly then it died so we jumped it off a pick up whilst I put the jump leads on the pick up my friend connected the jump leads to the Merc but unbeknown to me he had connected the jump leads directly to the battery & not to the red positive terminal on the top of the strut & when the car started up I noticed that there were no temp/fuel gauges, no speedo, no rev counter in fact nothing on the dash was working. Could putting the jump leads directly onto the battery maybe caused an electrical problem?