[R129 SL] Sudden Engine miss on my 1996 SL500 - M119 engine

[George Simpson]

George, I had a similar problem just after I got my 500SL. It seemed to 
happen just after I had filled up with petrol/gasoline but in the end, 
that was a red herring and M-B diagnosed a burnt rotor arm and 
distributor cap. Replacing these cured my problem at a cost of Euros 87 
= about $120.

George

George Jenner wrote:

> Help! I was driving along with everything normal when suddenly the 

> engine began acting weird.  It began to act as if it wanted to stall 

> upon acceleration and sounded like a cylinder might have dropped from 

> the firing order.  I filled it up right away with good high test gas 

> just to be sure it was not bad gasoline causing the problem.  The car 

> has about 81K miles and I have not had anything done to the engine 

> since I got the car about 3 years ago.  I removed the air cleaner and 

> associated parts and removed the covers over the coils thinking I 

> could get familiar with the ignition parts layout but to my surprise I 

> found eight ignition coils where the spark plugs should be.

>  

> Does this engine not have spark plugs?  Ignition wires?  Anything 

> resembling the engine setup I am used to seeing?

>  

> Has anyone an Idea of what might be ailing this motor?  I am 

> reasonably confident this is an ignition problem but have no clue 

> about how to proceed with an initial diagnostic to try to find out 

> what part may be causing my troubles.

>  

> I hate not knowing - George Jenner

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