RoosterBooster7
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hello everyone, just got a w202 last week, regretted selling my previous c230k so was happy to have a w202 again, now this thing has started to suffer from misfires, especially noticeable when waiting at a red light - the car will shake a lot. Sometimes you can notice it while driving along but it’s not as bad as idling. When I pull from the lights it takes a moment to pull away also which I believe is because of the misfire. Before I bought this car it was laid up for 1 year, so I thought it could just be dirty or old fuel, however I have gone through 3 full tanks of new fuel and also tried that redex fuel cleaner (didn’t misfire much - if at all when I had a bottle of it in. The car has also been converted to run on LPG, which is useless because the misfire gets so bad on that that it automatically changes itself back to petrol. I have read a load of threads on w202 misfires and I believe it’s one of the following: spark plugs, ignition coils or ignition leads, anyone know if these v6 engines commonly fail on these parts? What concerns me is as the car wasn’t driven in a year, the battery would have died, if the ecu was remapped to run LPG, could the dead battery have messed with the mapping and thrown everything off? Also on my previous w202 I’ve had a coil pack fail before, it stopped working completely, the misfire I have now does not feel the same, it feels like it’s very hit and miss wether it’ll misfire or not at any given moment, power feels lumpy and inconsistent, if anyone could give me any advice or any pointers or previous experience I would be very grateful!! Thanks guys!