Q: I am Having to replace distributor rotor to soon in my SL300 Mercedes. I just got a bad one fro apw.
1990 SL300 have had to replace dist. rotor just replace last year car gets driven about 2k per year thought I might have just gotten a bad one from parts house car starts great now before it just would not start like it wasnt getting fuel runs great with new dist, rotor
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